Nvidia Kepler - Geforce GTX680 Thread - Now with reviews

specialguy said:
they arent sold out, they basically never had any (well, I saw one pop in stock, only to be gone when out of curiosity I added to my cart, not that I was going to buy it)
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Aye, they were sold out about 4 minutes after showing up online, managed to get an EVGA card luckily.
 
squidyj said:
Poorly

Remember though that ubersampling isn't an on-off thing. You can ramp that stuff up. the default is off or 2 but you can write in 16 and it will do it at something like 10 seconds per frame.
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The default ubersampling is easily playable at 1080p +30fps with current cards. 680 should handle it well.
 
squidyj said:
That is exactly what you can do. On in the GUI just means 2x
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Oh, I see. Your "off or 2" threw me off. I get what you mean now. But, yeah. I assume it's going to be a long while before we can turn uber on and see 60FPS.


NBtoaster said:
The default ubersampling is easily playable at 1080p +30fps with current cards. 680 should handle it well.
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I see pleny of dips into the mid 20's with uber on with my sli 560 ti's and 2500k @ 4.3Ghz. Smaller areas I can get a good 50FPS. Overall I would call it pretty unplayable. Who wants 30FPS on PC any way?
 
Theonik said:
Now post another picture with the PC and a shoe on your head.
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It's your turn to post pictures now.

TronLight said:
Borderlands 2 will have it.
Thanks god, the first is no-AA, terrible.
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You can easily force AA in the first one (as in any UE3-based D3D9 game out there).

MrPing1000 said:
So basically the 680 is Nvidias mid range card at high range price.

http://www.techpowerup.com/162901/Did-NVIDIA-Originally-Intend-to-Call-GTX-680-as-GTX-670-Ti-.html

They must be making a fortune atm.
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They would've if they'd have more than several thousands of GK104s atm. It all comes down to TSMC's output right now.

Sethos said:
Saw a few in stock at a local online retailer, even at nice price. Would have pulled the trigger on two if it wasn't for the damn stacked power connectors :/
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What? Power connectors are completely fine. They're shifted with regards to one another so pulling the plugs out of them isn't the problem.
 
I love Moore's law. My 1 year old 6950CF system is no longer high end.

I'm going to probably go GTX 680 SLI (or some derivative) + Intel Haswell 1 year from now. My 6950CF setup will become HTPC + console port comfy couch in my living room.
 
Gueras said:
For the first time Nvidia did a great job in Power Consupmtion...
197W at full load? NICE JOB!

And only $499?

Best card at the moment! And I'm a ATI's fan...
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It's most definitely the fastest single GPU card in existence. But whether it's the best is a more complicated answer. It's definitely not the price/performance leader.

I'm slightly amused by the fact that two 5850s duct taped together (i.e. the 5970) can perform within 15% of that $500 beast monster, and even beats it in Shogun 2. Supply and demand already pushed it up to $600+ on eBay.
 
SapientWolf said:
It's most definitely the fastest single GPU card in existence. But whether it's the best is a more complicated answer. It's definitely not the price/performance leader.

I'm slightly amused by the fact that two 5850s duct taped together (i.e. the 5970) can perform within 15% of that $500 beast monster, and even beats it in Shogun 2. Supply and demand already pushed it up to $600+ on eBay.
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Looking at Ebay I see mostly bids around $200-300. And as someone who pays his own power bill (in expensive Europe), price/performance isn't solely based on the price of purchase.
 
Scotch said:
Looking at Ebay I see mostly bids around $200-300. And as someone who pays his own power bill, price/performance isn't solely based on the price of purchase.
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Power consumption is definitely an important factor. But on average, the 5970 only consumes about 20 more watts than the GTX 680. Unless my math is off it would take you about 11 years of constant gaming before you break even on power consumption, based solely on price. But I wouldn't peg the 5970 as the price/performance leader either.

Basically, everyone has different needs and budgets so there's no one size fits all GPU.

Theonik said:
They are making a new version of the dawn demo for the 680? Nice! One of my favourite nVidia tech demos. (I bet the fact that they are doing it 10 years after the original is also intentional, will be interesting to compare the two.)
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I hope they left the cheat codes in.
 
specialguy said:
they arent sold out, they basically never had any (well, I saw one pop in stock, only to be gone when out of curiosity I added to my cart, not that I was going to buy it)
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Yah I see what you mean. I just added two different cards and sure enough when I went to checkout;

Item has been removed from shopping cart due to quantity limitation/insufficient stock. Some combo items might be affected by this.

Still wondering if keeping the 7950 overclocked to 7970 speeds is worth it.
 
The Janitor said:
So there will there be a 4 Gb version aswell not just 2 Gb?
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Likely when they announce the dual gpu version of Kepler, get your wallets ready.

Futurevoid said:
What's fair market price for selling a GTX580 1.5GB? I'd be interested in the 4GB version eventually.
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I sold my 6950 2GB for $275, shit-ton og GTX580s on ebay from $300-400 still, likely won't sell. I'd say a good price is $350.00 seeing that you can get a new one for around that if you look around and catch sales.
 
dLMN8R said:
I want one so badly. Anyone know where it's in stock? Amazon and Newegg are all out :-(
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tigerdirect.com is still showing some in stock. I didn't actually order one so it may be something that doesn't show OOS until you try to check out though, I don't know for sure.
 
Werent some people here making a big deal out of those 99th percentile frame time tests by tech report back when Nvidia was winning them?

Well they're back, and now 7970 is beating 680, and funny, I haven't heard a peep LOL

http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653/11

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The GeForce GTX 680 is slightly faster and 50 bucks less expensive than the Radeon HD 7970, so it lands in a better position on this first plot. However, if we switch to an arguably superior method of understanding gaming performance and smoothness, our 99th percentile frame time (converted to FPS so the plot reads the same), the results change a bit.

The GTX 680's few instances of higher frame latencies, such as that apparent GPU Boost issue in Arkham City, move it just a couple of ticks below the Radeon HD 7970 in overall performance. Then again, the GTX 680 costs $50 less, so it's still a comparable value.
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pestul said:
Interesting. Thanks for that.. and then back to most ignoring it.
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I never put that much stock in it.

stuff like that, supposedly a new way to analyze things, is interesting to me. like sabremetrics or something.

if you read, nvidia claimed a gpu boost problem was causing them 99th percentile hitches in arkam city. 180ms frame time early on, repeatable.

they only analyzed four games, need to see more. the dark10x's of the world might care though.
 
Orayn said:
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?
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I had purchased a 7970, but was within my Amazon 30 day window, and sent it back. Just got an update that my order will ship out next week, which is fine. It's not so much the performance. I just trust Nvidia to always have proper driver support, and a clean interface. There's also nothing like geforce.com, where they have detailed performance guides on getting the most out of your games. AMD really needs to get better with the whole ecosystem
 
Durante said:
Interestingly Computerbase.de's results for The Witcher 2 are completely different:

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/...a-geforce-gtx-680/37/#abschnitt_the_witcher_2

(computerbase is very trustworthy in my experience)
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Computerbase is very trustworthy, definitely in my top 5.

Having said that the numbers are different because the computerbase bench is timedemo from a savefile and sweclocker's benchmarks are from a sequence in the first level. I havent played the game so I have no idea if the graphic workloads are so vastly different to arrive at such contrasting results.

specialguy said:
Yeah, and there was also a point where "Kepler handily beats 7970 for 299". How quickly we forget.

I dont see the need for too much doom and gloom for AMD on the GPU front. They're in the same spot they were last gen performance wise (580>6970, 680>7970) if not a little better off as the gap seems a little less.

Their pricing looks horrible right now, but they can fix that.

The only way I can see Nvidia hurting them gravely is if Nvidia launches a price war, and I dont see that happening. Something like, 680 for 299.

Some doom and gloom is warranted though. Just keep it in perspective imo.

Hell, if you look at overall GPU market share, AMD is only rising while Nvidia is falling. Why? Because of Fusion type products, and increasingly integrated GPU's are creeping up on and obsoleting the lower reaches of discrete.
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Granted AMD's product positioning is better off compared to the previous generations, AMD however have a significant disadvantage when it comes to costs versus the 680.

1. Larger die
2. Larger VRAM framebuffer
3. Cheaper HSF
4. Cheaper PWM

In previous generations AMD's graphics division barely managed to make profit despite having the above listed components as a cost advantage, and by a pretty significant margin.

While $499 is no price-war level pricing from Nvidia, it is enough to put some pressure back on AMD. IMO the situation is neither doom and gloom and neither rosy for AMD.
 
Lucius86 said:
Got burgled in December, lost my graphics card and 8GB RAM (Police never seen anything like it - blatantly an inside job with the builders who came in earlier in the week doing work) and had to resort back to my 4870. Lost around £1000 of kit. Not cool.

Nice benches - now the prices......
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How peculiar. Like something out of a bad viral marketing stunt.

Smokey said:
I'm not crazy right?

If I remember correctly that setup is even running on AMD hardware.
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Yeah, it's zephervack's setup.

GTX 680 video review:


Post from which the image was pinched:
zephervack said:
Call me when nVidia allows Multi Monitor setups to run on one GPU, I drive this with 1*6950 :

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Any upcoming games that could make use of this card at 1920 x 1200? I want it because it is sweet but having a hard time justifying it.
 
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