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

Just don't hold your breath. Demo looks good but what card? When can I buy one? What price?

Nvidia could have just rolled out the same demo and lied... At lease there isn't a VLC control bar to be seen I suppose
 
Don't get too excited. This basically explains why it runs better on one card and not three.

"Without anti-aliasing, Samaritan’s lighting pass uses about 120MB of GPU memory. Enabling 4x MSAA consumes close to 500MB, or a third of what's available on the GTX 580. This increased memory pressure makes it more challenging to fit the demo’s highly detailed textures into the GPU’s available VRAM, and led to increased paging and GPU memory thrashing, which can sometimes decrease framerates.”

In other words it could simply be down to Kepler's larger vram.
 
The GeForce GTX 680 is about 10% faster than Radeon HD 7970, in Battlefield 3. In the same comparison, the GTX 680 is slower than HD 7970 at 3DMark 11.
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If true this means the 680 will be a big let down, 10% better than 7970 in a game that Nvidia does much better in than AMD, oh dear.
 
You sure, hasn't the 7xxx series suffered specifically in BF3?

Even 10% won't be great for saying the card is 3 months older, and if it doesn't clock as well then they will be ~even


On a different note from the same article:
Lastly, GK110, the crown-jewel of the Kepler GPU family, will feature as many as 2,304 CUDA cores. There's absolutely no word on its whereabouts. The fact that NVIDIA is working on a dual-GK104 graphics card indicates that we won't see this chip very soon.
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So basically the part that should be GTX680 (according to Nvidias internal naming at least) is indeed massively delayed
 
The 7x seems to do rather brilliantly is BF3 if you overclock it. The real comparison will be with an overclocked Kepler part. And this is the Overclockers forum, after all.
 
I will be surprised if the GK104 has the same overclocking headroom as the 7970. We will have to see, but I can't see Nvidia leaving as much spare headroom as AMD did. I imagine that an overclocked 7970 will still be the overall performance winner - until GK110 appears anyway.
 
Epic seem to be claiming that an unamed "kepler" card has the same performance level as GTX580 TRI-SLI, either that or their code was utter rubbish and they've improved it to the point it can be run on a single card

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...-off-unreal-engine-3-in-flash-and-kepler.aspx

Mr. Rein also talked about the Samaritan demo that they had shown last year and detailed the system specifications. That system ran an Intel Core i7 2600K, 16GB of RAM and three GTX 580s in Triple-SLI. Now, with Kepler, Epic Games has successfully demonstrated the Samaritan Demo using only one NVIDIA Kepler GPU
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