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

I know recomended 8800gt to my roommate :P
In my opinion AMD products are budget solutions. If i could afford i7 with 580 i would have one.
But i like good bang for buck. And even at this minute i see 7950 as cards with not bad price.
 
Ok then if complete pc build from AMD and Intel/NV ware same price. You would still buy amd even tho intel/nv will be faster ?? Interesting.

ps.Nope no Xboxes we dont do consoles.
 
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Post me 1 card amd setup vs Intel/NV where AMD one will win with max ocs on AC or water.

ATI always looses at their Drivers fight. They used to be **** and people still think so :(
 
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That you would buy 680 card if it was out same time as AMDs 79xx cards. As you dont look for best bang for buck but for top preformance. And in most generations NV had faster 1 card solution on the market.

ATM I RL hope that Kepler will be much faster than 7970. That will force price drop from AMD and i will buy one myself :P
 
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So if Nvidia release a midrange card and call it a GTX 680 and sell it for way over the odds it's actually AMD's fault?! What a load of tosh :D.

If Nvidia weren't a money grabbing company they would capitalise on this and launch this card much cheaper and steal the market. Why do that when they can take more money form the beloved fans though? :rolleyes:

If Nvidia charge high end prices for this mid range card, it's Nvidia who is ripping off their customers not AMD.

Poor guys will spin it how you want, rather than except maybe Nvidia isn't the charitable organzation you think it is. It is kind of funny, yep it's all AMD's fault :p

At least AMD's card has 3GB of ram 384Bit and overclocking that puts it on a par with the GTX 590. AMD priced it's cards cheaper and better performance to already existing Nvidia cards. Anyway looks like Nvidia fans are about to be butthurt over prices...

Come on Nvidia, do the right thing and charge midrange prices for a midrange card, steal the market!
 
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Lord_ZED said:
That you would buy 680 card if it was out same time as AMDs 79xx cards. As you dont look for best bang for buck but for top preformance. And in most generations NV had faster 1 card solution on the market.
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I paid £416 for a 7970, had it on the 9th Jan, yes, over 2 months ago and have been enjoying the most powerful single GPU for all that time. There was nothing from Nvidia even close, the 580 is about 30% less powerful. Kepler is a fail card, they're re-badging a 670 to 680 as it will compete with the 7970 at stock, where as the likely case is when overclocked, the 7970 will destroy it due to it's massive oc headroom.

If Kepler turns out to be amazing, and really dicks 7970 at oc as well, then i'll sell my 7970 and buy a GTX680 - I seriously doubt this will happen though.

Boomstick777 said:
Come on Nvidia, do the right thing and charge midrange prices for a midrange card, steal the market!
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+1 this
 
Looking on some german website (http://www.3dcenter.org/news/nvidia-kepler-dualchip-loesung-auf-gk104-basis-im-mai) they say:

"GK110 (August), probably 2304 (1D) shader units, 192 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 384 bit DDR interface, game consumption probably ~ 250 watt, performance estimated 390-450%"

That performance figure compares to 330% for 7970 ie proper Kepler top end single gpu part estimated to be 18-36% faster than 7970

Edit: Also for reference they claim 680 will be 10-2 % slower than 7970
 
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Depends on the price, but pretty much. If Kepler disappoints then I'll be picking up a 7970.
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If kepler disappoints I'll wait for kepler prices to drop to the point that 7970 sales slow, then watch the 7970 price drop, rinse repeat till a 7950 is well under £300, then I'll buy whichever is more competitively priced/performs the best out of a gk104 and 7950, 99% likely to be the 7950 once overclocking is taken into account.

If Kepler is better than 7970, i'll wait for the 7970 price to drop till kepler sales slow, then I'll wait for the gk104 price to drop to get competitive, etc, etc, until the 7950 price is well under £300......... I think you can see where this is going.

300-350mm2 cores are making AN ABSOLUTE STONKING AMOUNT OF PROFIT at £400, if you stop buying prices will drop to be still profitable, just less ridiculous.

560ti at £160, and 6950's at £200 made decent but not massive profit, even if wafer prices/yields combined to make this gen cost 50% more...... work out where AMD/Nvidia would still be making a profit........ then refuse to buy above that price..... then realise the wafers/yields are seriously unlikely to have gone up 50%, 20-30% seems quite likely though at this point.
 
If Kepler disappoints, how would that make the 7970 better? Many people have avoided the 7000.series thus far because they offer poor value for money. The potential release of something worse does not make the 7970 better in itself.

Torres playing crap at Chelsea does not make Deogba a better player. He is what he is.
 
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