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

[andybird123]

Powered GeForce GTX 690 will take a 5-phase power section, and to feed this giant requires two 8-pin plug (TDP ~ 300W). The rear bracket you'll find two DVI, one HDMI and DisplayPort, and on the back of a not run SLI connector. Expected price is not yet known, but less than 3000 zł rather not go down (~ 800 USD).

this isn't too promising - with GTX680 taking near 200W and this card only sporting 300W - it means they are going to be quite severely down clocked

yet I bet it will be double the price of a 680, so 680SLI would be the much better price/performance option

 

[Redemption80]

Doesn't work like that, it's two GPU's not two cards.

A TDP of 300W could easily be done without much downclocking at all.

 

[Vir]

Well, gtx 680's to go to 1400mhz, sort of finishes the which card will be the fasted argument, along with new geforce drivers, there is no stopping it now, come on you reds....defect to green, you know it makes sense.

YESSSSS YESSS! I CAN FEEL THE ANGER! GOOD GOOD JOIN THE DARK SIDE

 

[straxusii]

Christ, this is the thread that refused to die!

 

[Wazz-1]

After much deliberation i think I'm going to ditch the 6950 and go GREEN

 

[homeless.hobo]

Let's put it this way. Had a bought a 7970 3 weeks ago for £400 I would be pretty p****ed off. This way for 390£ I have a better faster quieter and more efficient gfx card in my system....

 

[spankingtexan]

After much deliberation i think I'm going to ditch the 6950 and go GREEN

Yes, yes! GTX 680 eats monsters and Andys

 

[tbh]

Christ, this is the thread that refused to die!

It will never die, at least not until Big Kepler hits us in Q4 2012 / Q1 2013!

 

[opethdisciple]

670 news please!

 

[spankingtexan]

Tahiti was eliminated by Nigeria so they really didn't stand a cats chance in hell against Kepler did they lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dol84ai82Pk

 

[dave_beast]

I'd rather keep my proper high end 7970 than a jumped up overclocked midrange part made up from cheap bits thanks

 

[spankingtexan]

I'd rather keep my proper high end 7970 than a jumped up overclocked midrange part made up from cheap bits thanks

Sorry Dave, just making light of it all, sincerely man enjoy your 7970, it's a cracking card and I would have certainly had one but for 3D vision.

 

[dave_beast]

I know lol, now we just need all the prices to drop.

 

[Vega]

Well I tried the registry fix to try and get my GTX 680's running at PCI-E 3.0 with my X79 MB and in Surround mode Windows fails to boot. So the article was right that there can be issues using that registry key.

So hopefully nVidia properly enables 3.0 or I will have to go back to the launch drivers which I think were 300.83?

 

[ChileanLlama]

Well I tried the registry fix to try and get my GTX 680's running at PCI-E 3.0 with my X79 MB and in Surround mode Windows fails to boot. So the article was right that there can be issues using that registry key.

So hopefully nVidia properly enables 3.0 or I will have to go back to the launch drivers which I think were 300.83?

I saw somewhere nVidia are looking to get certified for for PCI-E 3.0 on SBE and IB. Hopefully soon - pretty sure it was from an nVidia rep.