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

If those prices do come true then taking the USD price of a 7970 and applying that ratio to £450 (average price of a 7970) then we get a price of £520. The straight conversion + vat gives us £490
 
ALXAndy said:
Pricing has already been hinted at.

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If true it won't affect AMD's pricing too much,
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You mean pricing has already been guessed at. That chart has been pretty much proved to be a total fake. The specs seem all wrong as the rumours suggest much higher shader counts with no hot clocked shaders.
 
TheRealDeal said:
You mean pricing has already been guessed at. That chart has been pretty much proved to be a total fake. The specs seem all wrong as the rumours suggest much higher shader counts with no hot clocked shaders.
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Prices of the 7000 series Radeons was guessed at too. And was very close.
 
ffs, that is based on essentially a double Fermi die spec, which is possible, double shader no hot clock hasn't been confirmed anywhere, certainly possible, potentially even more likely but not confirmed, doesn't make a huge difference either way.

Point is, if its a double Fermi die than the 680/670gtx would be based on a circa 500-550mm2 core, would NEVER launch sub £300, will certainly beat a 7950 and won't be available any time soon.

GK104 is from every single rumour the only thing launching in the next 2-4 weeks, its almost certainly a 768shader + hotclocks or 1536 shader + no hotclocks card that will likely end up similar in size to a 7970.

The cards listed ast 680/670gtx up there are the huge kepler, and even the most pro Nvidia sources aren't hinting at a launch anytime before Q3 at the earliest.

That whole chart is utter BS, whats launching is, from that chart, a míx between the 660ti and the gtx660.
 
drunkenmaster said:
That whole chart is utter BS, whats launching is, from that chart, a míx between the 660ti and the gtx660.
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Did you read the writing underneath it?

It clearly states that it's all based on rumours.

It's pretty much identical to the ones we saw of the AMD 7000 series prices. Whilst the specs didn't add up the prices weren't far off.
 
I love a good rumour and as most of us are aware, the news floating around is all rumours.

No harm to anyone and with Nvidia italia IIRC, patience is all we need.

On that assumption, I will jump to my own conclusion and say 'woooot we are in for a great card on first release that will smash the 7970 and it will be cheap'*




*I have been known to BS now and then.
 
se_vietboi said:
2 months on and prices for 7970 pretty much the same =[
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not really, prices for the 7970 started out at pretty much a minimum of £450 for those that had stock, or £430 if you were prepared to wait

now they are popping up at around £380-390, that's more than 10% drop in 2 months and more to come I'd say
 
andybird123 said:
not really, prices for the 7970 started out at pretty much a minimum of £450 for those that had stock, or £430 if you were prepared to wait

now they are popping up at around £380-390, that's more than 10% drop in 2 months and more to come I'd say
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Its a shame that overclockers cheapest 7970 is still £439.99 with free delivery. :(
 
Jas1222 said:
I'm calling it at £450 for 15% faster than the 580.
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15% seriously???

Even the 480 was 40% faster than the GTX285 it replaced and it had to be crippled!

Nvidia and AMD have a track record of delivering 50-70% on a die shrink release (not always but more often than not)
 
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I've been thinking though... we're in a bit of a race towards 0 with regards to die size, right? Are we going to start seeing incrementally smaller performance increases with each new die shrink/architecture?
 
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Kepler-GK104-Graphics-Cores-Start-Reaching-AIBs-252449.shtml

According to reports from the Far East, which have been gathered by SemiAccurate, Nvidia’s most important add-in board partners have begun receiving the first GK104 cores at the start of last week.

The GPUs delivered by Nvidia were in various states of functionality, but since they are only meant for early hardware design and testing these are more than adequate for the task.

Furthermore, this seems to suggest that Nvidia is committed to get Kepler out as soon as possible.

If all things go as planned, AIBs need between 4 and 6 weeks to get the first cards on retailer shelves after sampling starts. This means that GK104-based Kepler cards should arrive in late March or early April.

Other details regarding these graphics cards were not provided, but as we have reported earlier today, the GK1-4 core will be available in two versions, dubbed GK104-400 and GK104-335.

Both of these will actually be based on the same GPU, but the former comes as a fully working GK104, while the latter is a partially fused off version of the same chip.

The main difference between the two lies in the number of graphics processing clusters they will include, since the -400 is said to be an “8 group” device compared to the -335, which is described as a “7 group” GPU.

Nvidia’s has designed Kepler to be more flexible in terms of programmability than the current Fermi architecture and this is the company’s first GPU to be based on TSMC's high-K metal gate (HKMG) 28nm fabrication process (the same one used by AMD for the Radeon HD 7900 series cards).
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Not sure if posted (as we have had lots and lots of rumours) but thought I would add it.
 
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