Nvidia Kepler - Geforce GTX680 Thread - Now with reviews

Well the 680 is a beast. Thank God it didn't beat the 7970 by huge margins at 2560 or I would feel buyers remorse. As it stands I still feel I bought the best card for what I use it for.
 
Are there any Adobe Premiere CS5.5 MPE benches out there yet? The GTX 680 has a ridiculous amount of CUDA core and I want to see what sort of rendering times it pushes for 1080p video.
 
LumpOfCole said:
Are there any Adobe Premiere CS5.5 MPE benches out there yet? The GTX 680 has a ridiculous amount of CUDA core and I want to see what sort of rendering times it pushes for 1080p video.
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Not AP, but on Toms review it encodes h264 video at about twice the speed of the GTX580 3GB and much faster than any AMD accelerated encoding. That probably bodes well from AP.
 
While this card certainly looks great, it is wayyyy beyond my price point. I am eagerly awaiting the GTX 660-670 variations. Also, does anyone know if the TXAA stuff is going to be heading the 500 series GPUs or are they going to make it a 600 line exclusive?
 
On a sales note...Posted by Linus over at NCIX

EDIT at 8:30AM PST March 22:

Update: Things have gone from "looking pretty good" to "looking pretty rough" on the inventory side. Demand is already.... very high...

I think there are still a couple of Zotacs and a few Galaxys left, but if you're ordering MSI or EVGA right now, be prepared to sit in the queue.

PNY is also a good bet. It's out of stock right now, but more coming by early next week or even Friday potentially.
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I'm not sure why anyone doubted these things would disappear quickly.
 
Quicksilver4648 said:
While this card certainly looks great, it is wayyyy beyond my price point. I am eagerly awaiting the GTX 560-570 variations. Also, does anyone know if the TXAA stuff is going to be heading the 500 series GPUs or are they going to make it a 600 line exclusive?
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It'll trickle down to both the 5xx and 4xx families, IIRC.

Edit: From Guru3D:

Guru3D said:
Unfortunately TXAA needs to be implemented in upcoming game titles, and this the functionality will be available later this year. TXAA will also get supported in GeForce series 400 and 500 products.
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scogoth said:
And really EVGA? You can make a better looking hydro copper 680

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Good lawd. Was thinking abut waiting for this inevitable version, guess not. Here's hoping for a stellar 690/695.
TheExodu5 said:
Kind of wish I ordered one now. :(
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It's really not that impressive. I mean, it's a leap over your current card for sure. As an enthusiast though, I still like the 7970, especially with as many DP outputs that it has. Dat 120hz.
 
JaseC said:
In the former scenario (AMD sitting still) AMD are, to an extent, practically handing the high-end market to nvidia in the here-and-now, whereas in the latter scenario (AMD responding) there's just some angry people who have already bought their product and in the future will probably just wait for nvidia's response before purchasing. The two aren't really comparable in terms of potential impact.
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But wouldn't they still be kind of pissed since AMD got greedy and charged premium price for a product that shortly got beat up and at a cheaper price?

I think that no one has the right to be pissed in this case since the smart advice was to hold on some weeks to watch the competitor's offer, instead of anxiously being in a hurry to have the latest and greatest. Stupid in itself since we know the nature of the tech world. :)
 
I'm in the market for a new card, but these are a little rich for my blood. When might we expect the GTX670, 660, or 650?
 
I'm rocking an OC'd 570 right. That 680 is absolute sex. I want one, bad. But, I think I'm gonna wait and see if AMD does something drastic. I'd definitely go for a 7970 if the price hit ~$400. Which, after a price drop and a sale, I could see happening mildly soon.
 
I may have missed it, but is this card actually their flagship single GPU card, or is there to be a more powerful version in the works? Or are the future cards just going to be the lower end, cheaper cards? Is there any idea when the other cards if planned are to surface?
 
J-Rzez said:
I may have missed it, but is this card actually their flagship single GPU card, or is there to be a more powerful version in the works? Or are the future cards just going to be the lower end, cheaper cards? Is there any idea when the other cards if planned are to surface?
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I'm personally waiting for a non-reference design this time around, my unlocked 6950 sounds like a vacuum cleaner when the fan spins up high enough.

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I thought it was the flagship, but they may have an even more powerful version later on. o_O
 
Refreshment.01 said:
But wouldn't they still be kind of pissed since AMD got greedy and charged premium price for a product that shortly got beat up and at a cheaper price?

I think that no one has the right to be pissed in this case since the smart advice was to hold on some weeks to watch the competitor's offer, instead of anxiously being in a hurry to have the latest and greatest. Stupid in itself since we know the nature of the tech world. :)
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Yes, which is why I said they'd be angry and, presumably, in the future, would wait until both manufacturers have their cards on the table before making a decision.

As you say, when the 7xxx series launched, all rumours pointed to a March/April release for Kepler, so those early adopters who would feel befouled by AMD fighting back with a price drop have nobody but themselves to blame.
 
Refreshment.01 said:
But wouldn't they still be kind of pissed since AMD got greedy and charged premium price for a product that shortly got beat up and at a cheaper price?

I think that no one has the right to be pissed in this case since the smart advice was to hold on some weeks to watch the competitor's offer, instead of anxiously being in a hurry to have the latest and greatest. Stupid in itself since we know the nature of the tech world. :)
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From my point of view, I realized as an early adopter to a new generation of cards, I was probably not making the best financial decision but I was champing at the bit to upgrade. I knew at the time that there was a very good chance that I could get better performance or a better price if I waited but I pulled the trigger anyway. I realize that there is no one to blame but myself.
 
mkenyon said:
Good lawd. Was thinking abut waiting for this inevitable version, guess not. Here's hoping for a stellar 690/695.

It's really not that impressive. I mean, it's a leap over your current card for sure. As an enthusiast though, I still like the 7970, especially with as many DP outputs that it has. Dat 120hz.
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You can't do 3 120hz screens on the 680, but you can on 7970?
 
Smokey said:
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You can't do 3 120hz screens on the 680, but you can on 7970?
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Correct.

120hz monitors are either dual link DVI or DP for 120hz. You need three of one or the other unless you want to mix and match Samsung with Benq.

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Or go SLI. IIRC, you can use the outputs from both/either cards when in SLI. Not crossfire though.
 
mkenyon said:
Correct.

120hz monitors are either dual link DVI or DP for 120hz. You need three of one or the other unless you want to mix and match Samsung with Benq.
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Ah ok

So you'd still need to SLI if I wanted to add 2 more 120hz monitors since it runs on dual link DVI. Kind of sucks but even more justification!! Lol

Edit: dat 4gb version fuuuuuuu
 
Smokey said:
Ah ok

So you'd still need to SLI if I wanted to add 2 more 120hz monitors since it runs on dual link DVI. Kind of sucks but even more justification!! Lol

Edit: dat 4gb version fuuuuuuu
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Yep. When you add the price of three S23A700D's(DP), vs. XL2420T(Dual link DVI), its an additional $400 for dual link DVI vs. DP

Weird how monitors are forcing GPU choices for me now.
 
Techreport as usual has a great review up on the 680. Also the way they benchmark the games is interesting, instead of FPS its how fast the card renders frames before they are displayed.

overall looks like NVIDIA has been free'd from the limitations of the 40nm process. Card is quiet, cool, efficient. Overall i hope the 7970 and 680 get prices down these are the high end single card solutions but i remember dual cards costing half a grand sheesh.
 
Vulcano's assistant said:
I'm pretty much in this situation. Even if Metro: Last Light is beefy as fuck, I will keep my GTX570 until Crysis 3-ish games and the GTX780.
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New cards are tempting, but I'll keep my gtx480 for another year or so before upgrading.

After all, I play at 1080p or 1680x1050, so I still don't need that much power. And when I'm playing in 3D it's at 720p.

Next rig will be water cooled though, I'm tired of noises and fans.
 
I think AMD is only going to have to reduce the current models by $50 or so.. maybe less. They do have all that compute advantage that Nvidia left for the workstation market. I know, it does mean virtually nothing for the common gamer, but AMD occupied a fair bit of die space for this, so I'm sure they'll want to charge something for it.
 
So... tempted... to... buy...

If I knew AMD's drivers were 100% going to improve drastically then I would stick with my 7970, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm always going to be plagued by problems with the red team.

I'm torn :/
 
IcyBlueStrawberry said:
So... tempted... to... buy...

If I knew AMD's drivers were 100% going to improve drastically then I would stick with my 7970, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm always going to be plagued by problems with the red team.

I'm torn :/
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I know man. You always think they're about to turn the corner.. then they shit it up somehow. The latest driver leak (I'm using on my 5850) has a few weird issues that I hope don't make it into WHQL, like CCC not loading properly for a while after boot. I've read on Rage3d that they have put a lot more backing into their driver team lately, so some major strides might be seen by the summer.

I mean they didn't even have a friggin' WHQL certified driver for Tahiti launch. Crazy to launch a series of flagship cards without a real driver for it.

I'm really interested to see the SLI vs. Crossfire reviews that we should get by tomorrow. I have a strange feeling (based on a few leaked benches) that crossfire 7970s is going to be faster than SLI GTX680s. Crossfire scaling since the 6xxx series has been nearly perfect, when the game supports it of course. This is AMDs biggest challenge.
 
IcyBlueStrawberry said:
So... tempted... to... buy...

If I knew AMD's drivers were 100% going to improve drastically then I would stick with my 7970, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm always going to be plagued by problems with the red team.

I'm torn :/
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Be rational. Don't go from 7970 to 680 based on a "feeling", one that doesn't make much sense either.
 
mkenyon said:
Be rational. Don't go from 7970 to 680 based on a "feeling", one that doesn't make much sense either.
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I know spending $500 on a new card is ridiculous when I just did it two months ago, but AMD has been really slacking when it comes to drivers.

All of the Assassin's Creed games are stuttery messes right now, SR3 runs worse now than it did with the CD drivers and it ran pretty shitty in the first place, Arkham City still has massive slowdowns in both DX9 and DX11 etc. etc.

I understand that some of those things are because of the games themselves and not AMD's drivers, but the general trend seems to be that people with Nvidia cards have less trouble than I do.
 
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