Nvidia Kepler - Geforce GTX680 Thread - Now with reviews

Don't look at those benches. Totally skewed. I mean, you can get equal performance to everything listed there by simply moving your sliders to the right in CCC. No extra noise or heat either.

Also, the plug design, while making the PCB shorter, is straight stupid for proper cable management. You'll have one of your cables going directly over the intake. This card is terrible.
 
Hmm, so this was the card that was "supposed to be" the 660 ti for 299?
 
artist said:
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( ~ 800 usd )


*blows brains out*
 
mkenyon said:
Oh come on now. Are your 560Ti's really holding you back?
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Definitely not, especially since I've gone from 2560x1440 to 1920x1080 because of input lag. But I'm actually looking at "downgrading" from SLI to single gpu, and those rumors of a beefy 660 ti for 299-ish dollars had me going, seemed like the perfect gpu for 1080p.

Though I'd rather die than pay 800 usd for one gpu.
 
800 dollars? fuck me. april will be a rough month financially, lol.
edit: yeah thats too fucking high. drop the price point on the gtx 580, you fucks and charge 600 dollars.
 
theignoramus said:
800 dollars? fuck me. april will be a rough month financially, lol.
edit: yeah thats too fucking high. drop the price point on the gtx 580, you fucks and charge 600 dollars.
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That's soulcrushing eu prices. I'm guessing it's 599-699 in the US and 800 in sweden like always.
 
artist said:
What do you mean? Apart from the memory bandwidth, the 680 has a lead on every other spec.
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I know the 680 has higher fillrate...Im asking why because it seems the 7970 has better on paper specs.

Transistor count
4.31 vs 3.54

Shader Count
2,048 vs 1,1536

Ram
3 gig vs 2 gig

Bandwith
264 vs 192

Memory Type

384 vs 256
 
mkenyon said:
Well you should. I was referring to Corky who has two!
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^^

I must say though,

1) Loooove my 560 tis for the price tag they had
2) Love the msi twinfrozr model, ice cold, high clocks, quiet as hell
3) Rarely had problems with SLI, 1 in 10 new games gave me actual issues at tops.

With that said

660 ti, 1.25x 580 performance, 299, msi twin frozr design = :')

Now = >:'[
 
Well looks like I'm getting a 680 so I can finally ditch this crappy ATI 5870.

Did I say crappy? I meant awesome... so... who wants to buy a used 5870?
 
Sinatar said:
Well looks like I'm getting a 680 so I can finally ditch this crappy ATI 5870.

Did I say crappy? I meant awesome... so... who wants to buy a used 5870?
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Lol depends on how much your willing to sell it for.

(Interested on actually buying it from you btw)
 
Either Nvidia is choosing some flattering materials to show off the new FXAA technique (also did this with the Samaritian shots), or it's getting into "not bad" territory.

Will definitely get a Kepler in the fall when all of this non-sense has settled down (hopefully things have settled down by then).
 
Refreshment.01 said:
But doesn't that hold true for 680? much less power consumption while gaming. So the 55 watts difference could be maintained.
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For starters Nvidia's quoted TDP value for the 580 were opposite; it ended up consuming more than the values they provided :P

FWIW, some time back I heard that the GK104 hovered around 160W in some games.

Posting from my phone, will be back to the office in an hour.
 
Sinatar said:
Well looks like I'm getting a 680 so I can finally ditch this crappy ATI 5870.

Did I say crappy? I meant awesome... so... who wants to buy a used 5870?
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For gaming at 60 fps+? Yea an upgrade is in order. But that card can move quite well most games decently at 1200p. Most of the things landing on PC today are console ports. The thing that peaked my interest for this new cards is performance/wattage but then AMD and Nvidia decided to fuck it over with the bullish prices :(
artist said:
For starters Nvidia's quoted TDP value for the 580 were opposite; it ended up consuming more than the values they provided :P

FWIW, some time back I heard that the GK104 hovered around 160W in some games.

Posting from my phone, will be back to the office in an hour.
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I could easily be wrong, plus you are a more informed person than i am regarding GPU's. But in the slides posted the Nvidia part has less transistor, a smaller surface area and uses 2 6 pin power connectors, 7970 was 6 pin + 8 pin.
 
Daaaaaamn at the prices. Kinda glad I'm broke right now, gives me a chance to save and see how things level out.
 
Sethos said:
Active clock should be 1006 ( Which it says in the picture?)
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Can you elaborate? In my experience GPUZ's "Default Clock" represents either the reference or OEM OC, while "GPU Clock" represents the active clock. I was asking whether the reference clock was 706 or 1006, cause that GPUZ grab says it's 706. This seems pretty doubtful, but the bullshit these GPU manufacturers will go to knows no bounds. I wouldn't be surprised if this card was designed and intended to be a GTX660, but thanks to ATI's expensive and middling performance, they decided to brand it a 680.
 
Reallink said:
Can you elaborate? In my experience GPUZ's "Default Clock" represents either the reference or OEM OC clock, while "GPU Clock" represents the active clock. I was asking whether the reference clock was 706 or 1006, cause that GPUZ grab says it's 706.
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Could be idle clock, as every GPU throttles down when not in use. The other value just represents its active clock.
 
Sethos said:
Could be idle clock, as every GPU throttles down when not in use. The other value just represents its active clock.
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The active "GPU Clock" value would show the idle clock, "Default Clock" is always the reference or OEM clock, it never changes. The most likely explanation is that this grab is from an early sample that had low default clocks, but like I said, you never know with these guys.
 
jonremedy said:
If it's 600 dollars in the US, I think some serious price fixing is going on.
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Hold on a second, you say it like there's a chance that it's not the case. From the way products so neatly stack among each other from both companies it seems obvious to me there's infact some price fixing in effect.
 
Refreshment.01 said:
Hold on a second, you say it like there's a chance that it's not the case. From the way products so neatly stack among each other from both companies it seems obvious to me there's infact some price fixing in effect.
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Yes, there is no question of (at the very least) implicit collusion .
 
Corky said:
With the risk of sounding stupid, but aren't there anti-cartel laws in place just for these things?
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1. Yes but nobody is going to do anything and
2. These price-fixing accusations are all over the web from angry nerds who want better GPU's so it's probably a non-issue to those who can do something about it
 
Price gouging based off of low stock, most likely. It will probably be $500.

Who am I kidding, it won't be. ;_;

Oh well, time to wait for a 4GB version.
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
1. Yes but nobody is going to do anything and
2. These price-fixing accusations are all over the web from angry nerds who want better GPU's so it's probably a non-issue to those who can do something about it
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Holy shit! Thanks for the compliment... i guess. And i thought i was blunt guy around the boards :)
 
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