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

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:10

Will there be a 4gb version???????????

dave_beast · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:12

gregster said:
You want me to come clean your office today Gibbo? I don't mind doing it for free and you can pay me in another way....nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

Eurghhh, I just brought up a little bit of sick

xsistor · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:19

gregster said:
You want me to come clean your office today Gibbo? I don't mind doing it for free and you can pay me in another way....nudge nudge wink wink say no more.

I'll pay you to do it, gibbo... Minimum wage/hour. And if you happen to leave some printouts of slides on your desk and I happen to glance at them... turn the pages while I dusted them, that's no biggie.

Jas1222 · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:19

Damn .. £400+ blows my budget out of £300 straight out.

straxusii · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:21

Gibbo said:
I've seen everything there is to see in regards to presentations etc. My stock arrives beginning of next week, more than enough to go round too.

However I can't say anything that breaches NDA.

Can you tell us what day OCUK will start selling them Gibbo? Or is even knowing the end date of the NDA part of the NDA :-)

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:30

OCUK, will there be any z77 mobo's for sale on Kepler day, I wanna kill two ducks with one brick?.

Sampsy · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:33

Honestly £400+ mid range parts sounds really dodgy to me.

eyetrip · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:36

Sampsy said:
Honestly £400+ mid range parts sounds really dodgy to me.

Agreed.

I suppose people refusing to buy would get prices more reasonable, but people just won't do that

rare · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:38

Anyone who thought these were going to be cheap were on another planet.

The precedent has already been set for new GPU launch prices over the last generation and once that happens there's no way they will price them lower. The cards will still sell well I would imagine at 400+.

Very interesting to read the reviews and see how they compare with a 7970. Hoping they will push prices of a 7970 down so I can buy another

dave_beast · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:42

If the GTX 680 is a rebadged, overclocked 670, wouldn't it be wiser to get on of those and just overclock it? Surely Nvidia have shot themselves in the foot?

Also, GK104 GTX 680 is the top end according to Nvidia, there will be nothing higher?!

RavenXXX2 · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:47

Here's me thinking a 256 bit card would be reasonably priced, I mean they are way down spec wise on the AMD 7950/70 but could come in at the same price as the 7970 and only offer similar or slightly better performance in Nvidia optimized games.

If that's the case I'm just gonna have to put a little extra towards my £300 budget and pick up a 7950 and clock its nuts off.

Stanners · 15 Mar 2012 at 11:57

RavenXXX2 said:
Here's me thinking a 256 bit card would be reasonably priced, I mean they are way down spec wise on the AMD 7950/70 but could come in at the same price as the 7970 and only offer similar or slightly better performance in Nvidia optimized games.

If that's the case I'm just gonna have to put a little extra towards my £300 budget and pick up a 7950 and clock its nuts off.

That's the feeling I am getting, but I shall wait and see

area512003 · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:00

RavenXXX2 said:
Here's me thinking a 256 bit card would be reasonably priced, I mean they are way down spec wise on the AMD 7950/70 but could come in at the same price as the 7970 and only offer similar or slightly better performance in Nvidia optimized games.

If that's the case I'm just gonna have to put a little extra towards my £300 budget and pick up a 7950 and clock its nuts off.

+1

ALXAndy · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:01

This is the flagship model and Nvidia say Tahiti is underwhelming?

Oh the irony.

dave_beast · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:03

ALXAndy said:
This is the flagship model and Nvidia say Tahiti is underwhelming?

Oh the irony.

This

rare · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:04

This is why I'm so keen to see the reviews. It's down on bandwidth, it's clocked slower and has less memory than a 7970. Hmm.

straxusii · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:06

They said it's underwhelming because they realised they could badge a GTX660 as the GTX680, toe to toe with the 7970 and still charge 680 prices for it*

*If the rumours come true

spankingtexan · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:06

People are gonna be very surprised by Kepler, it's either gonna be good or crap either way my statement is correct he,he,ha,ha.

dave_beast · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:07

rare said:
This is why I'm so keen to see the reviews. It's down on bandwidth, it's clocked slower and has less memory than a 7970. Hmm.

The only thing I can see is Nvidia buying all the games software developers studios, enhancing Kepler performance in all new games, and knobbling AMD hardware to run all new games like a slideshow

ALXAndy · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:10

rare said:
This is why I'm so keen to see the reviews. It's down on bandwidth, it's clocked slower and has less memory than a 7970. Hmm.

Not from what I've seen. 1004mhz apparently.

dave_beast said:
The only thing I can see is Nvidia buying all the games software developers studios, enhancing Kepler performance in all new games, and knobbling AMD hardware to run all new games like a slideshow

And they would fall foul of so many laws and rules that the fines would see them bankrupt in a month.

Things like that don't work, as Microsoft have found out. Why do you think they released a console in the first place? because they spent years trying to monopolise PC gaming and came up empty handed.