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The first "proper" Kepler news Fri 17th Feb?

RavenXXX2 said:
nVidia GK110

~ 550mm ² die size (28nm in production at TSMC)
Round 6 billion transistors
DirectX 11.1 Kepler architecture
most likely (compared to the GK104) different structure of shader clusters (SMX)
clearly more than in 2000 (1D) shader units (to 2500 shader units)
2 + Double Precision teraflops computing power, accordingly, probably 4 + Single Precision teraflops computing power
512-bit DDR memory interface
Game Power consumption 250 to 300 watts
Tape-out until after January 2012 launch not before August 2012

http://translate.google.com/transla...vom-nvidia-gk110-chip-zu-erwarten-ist&act=url
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Thats the one if true worth waiting for, not this half fat POS that's here soon.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
nVidia GK110

~ 550mm ² die size (28nm in production at TSMC)
Round 6 billion transistors
DirectX 11.1 Kepler architecture
most likely (compared to the GK104) different structure of shader clusters (SMX)
clearly more than in 2000 (1D) shader units (to 2500 shader units)
2 + Double Precision teraflops computing power, accordingly, probably 4 + Single Precision teraflops computing power
512-bit DDR memory interface
Game Power consumption 250 to 300 watts
Tape-out until after January 2012 launch not before August 2012

http://translate.google.com/transla...vom-nvidia-gk110-chip-zu-erwarten-ist&act=url
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Now this is what I'm talking about! I'll hold out for this. So this sounds like the "GK112" we heard aobut early on. Then again this could very well be the GK112 as that early slide mentioned and maybe they got the name wrong. In that slide GK110 sounds like a single-chip version built out of a low level (say, cache level) interface between two GK104 cores.
 
Martini1991 said:
Wut?
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I think he's thinking Dirt 2...and that's not even bias...it was a bloody AMD title, and AMD cards got poorer result than Nvidia cards, which IMO is a disgrace. If anything, Dirt 3 is biased toward AMD just like F1 2011.

It's amazing how quickly some would call a game biased, just because it generally do better than the competition across the range. Biased titles are titles such as Shogun 2, which the in the hardware requirement/recommendation they refuse to even mention the name Nvidia.
 
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Looking at those leaked benches the GTX680 is a win overall, I don't understand why people are complaining about the £420 price considering its faster (in most cases) than a 7970. I want to know how noisy it is, stock fans are always pants :(
 
Kepler looks killer, however I've been looking at the BF3 FPS and it's still not that far over 7970 @ 2560x1600 (the resolution I game at on my existing 1.5G GTX 580). As such I'm either waiting to see what:-

a) The speeds are like overclocked
b) The speeds are like with the 4GB model (I think 2G could be a limitation at that res)
c) Waiting for GK110 which on a 512bit bus will ship default with 4GB VRAM.

Out of all of the options I'd like to wait for option C, but kepler DOES look pretty amazing if the leaked Toms hardware slides are anything to go by. However looking at the FPS comparison at lower resolutions Kepler is miles above even GTX 590's yet at 2560x1600 it struggles to best a 7970. For this reason I'm thinking it's VRAM constricted at high resolutions, and as such I'm interested to see how it works in a 4GB incantation.
 
straxusii said:
But Ferrari wouldn't slap a Ferrari badge on a Focus, tweak the ECU a bit, and charge a Ferrari price for it :D
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Surely you remember the Dino.

FerrariDino264.jpg




Anyway off to check to see how many pennies I've got in the bank :)
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It seem HardOCP is not getting their hardware from Nvidia:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038515527&postcount=127

Some interesting comments about the performance:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038514780&postcount=33

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038515505#post1038515505

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038515632#post1038515632
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funny how the owner is swearing there :)

Ive always liked hardocp as a site (been a member quite some time) - although I admit Ive tended to like other sites reviews of gpus better in the past.
 
The only thing that has changed is having time for info to settle but i'm finding myself more interested in the 680 now. It will be very tempting to get one if it overclocks as well as the 7970 but the pricing is a little scary.

But I just don't want to buy one, then a few weeks later the prices drop because the price gouging is over and the 7970's have dropped. Then ~6 months later the real 680 and full line up comes out and prices hit rock bottom on the one I have so I take a bigger hit to upgrade again...
 
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