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

(just so I understand) - is this suggesting that the 680 will be announced first and released first and will be their top of the line card? And they will do like what AMD did and release down the line then? ...

If so - Im a bit scared to see the price tag on the thing ...
 
Looks awesome if true, how much ram does the 680 have? If this smokes the 7970 i'll switch over to Nvidia, hope it has the same or more memory than the 7970 though, anything less than 3Gb will feel like a downgrade.
 
Boomstick777 said:
Looks awesome if true, how much ram does the 680 have? If this smokes the 7970 i'll switch over to Nvidia, hope it has the same or more memory than the 7970 though, anything less than 3Gb will feel like a downgrade.
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dont quote me on this but ive heard its 2Gb and the card can cache physical ram i dont have source as ive seen other people say the same on here so it might not be true
 
Is there any word on whether Kepler (either this card or the single GPU series) will be able to natively output to 3 or monitors from one card?

I would be very tempted to pit one against my HD7970 if it can do it but have no interest in running dual GPU setups.
 
The Slayer_UK said:
dont quote me on this but ive heard its 2Gb and the card can cache physical ram i dont have source as ive seen other people say the same on here so it might not be true
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Ah ok, if there is a more than 2GB variant I will probably grab one. Depends on price aswell I guess.

That amount of shaders and 'hot clocked' it should be a beast!
 
The Slayer_UK said:
dont quote me on this but ive heard its 2Gb and the card can cache physical ram i dont have source as ive seen other people say the same on here so it might not be true
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Sorry to quote you on something you specifically said "don't quote me on this" but... ;)

Isn't this what cards have been doing since the AGP days? To quote Wikipedia:

In addition, to load a texture, a PCI graphics card must copy it from the system's RAM into the card's framebuffer, whereas an AGP card is capable of reading textures directly from system RAM using the graphics address remapping table, which reapportions main memory as needed for texture storage, allowing the graphics card to access them directly.[2] The maximum amount of system memory available to AGP is defined as the AGP aperture.
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Have nVidia developed some new technology to decrease the performance hit from using system RAM, or am I misunderstanding?
 
You would have thought that any access to main RAM would immediately kill the performance, it would be orders of magnitude slower than onboard GPU ram access
 
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sonicology said:
Sorry to quote you on something you specifically said "don't quote me on this" but... ;)

Isn't this what cards have been doing since the AGP days? To quote Wikipedia:



Have nVidia developed some new technology to decrease the performance hit from using system RAM, or am I misunderstanding?
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lol I have no Idea i just saw it in a previous thread this was the link someone put up

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...stem-vram-runs
 
This card could come just below the 7970 draw with it or blow it out the water, whatever happens i do not think this will be nvidia's top card this year and i do not think the 7970 will be ati's top card either.
 
What I really hope doesn't happen is the following:

Nvidia were on track to release 670 start of April and 680 Q3.

They realise the 670 is faster than the 7970 so decide to call it the 680, charge 680 prices for it, and release the real high end part, now called the 685, Q3
 
I wouldn't worry about it, whatever card is faster than the 7970 Nvidia will charge Nvidia prices for it, whether it was originally the 670 or 680 is irrevelvant, it's still going to be pricey.

The 680 looks nice is those specs are legit. Interested to see what the GTX 660 is like.
 
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