Nvidia Kepler - Geforce GTX680 Thread - Now with reviews

My 680 just came, I was waiting for the UPS guy at the street. My wife can't believe how "nerdy" I am when it comes to PC gaming.
Thankfully, she said she'll leave me alone for the next day or so, so that I can just game uninterrupted.

Back ot, the 680 was much bigger than I expected as I had 2 460's SLI'd. Not a problem as MOBO is plenty big enough, but that caught me for a surprise.
I also like that it doesn't have a mini-hdmi plug just regular ol' hdmi. That would get annoying if I had to do work overnight and decide to bring my PC
and forget to grab that thing.

Wheellllllpppp, time to go get lost in Skyrim/Witcher 2. May download Battlefield 3 tonight to see what all the fuss is about.
 
Hazaro said:
Played Crysis 2 maxed on tri SLI GTX 680's, pushing over 100fps.

I'm not impressed. Bring on the GTX 670
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Best part is, neither tri SLI GTX 680's or GTX 670's can handle Crysis 2 @ 1080p with High res texture pack + MaldoHDV3, thanks to 2 GB VRAM limit. :P

Also, Firefall is SO FREAKIN GOOD!!
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Ok, Amazon has an EVGA GTX 680 in stock for $509! Ordered it, put 1 day shipping on it... and it says it'll be here on the 10th. Very cool.
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Well that was quick, just checked and it went out of stock in minutes :(



Would have canceled my pending order of the ZOTAC for the EVGA but not fast enough.
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Best part is, neither tri SLI GTX 680's or GTX 670's can handle Crysis 2 @ 1080p with High res texture pack + MaldoHDV3, thanks to 2 GB VRAM limit. :P

Also, Firefall is SO FREAKIN GOOD!!
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I've been trying for the Firefall beta for the last 2 weeks or so. I'm just not an active enough of the forums to be worthy of an invite I guess. It's funny though, I made an account for the forums almost as soon as that game was announced.
 
Smokey said:
Are you using an app or a site that tells you when it's available?
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Already posted before but nowinstock.net is a great resource. Get a free membership and they keep tabs on a few different sites and email you the min. they come in stock. Alternately, you could leave a tab open and they will have an audible alarm when one is available. The only popular site they don't check is newegg.
 
Now that I've had the. 680 in my possession for a few hours I must say, I am genuinely impressed. Now I am comparing to 460's Sli'd so maybe my impression is a bit skewed but the gains I've had in the games I play, Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Dead Rising 2, and Crysis 2 are exceptional. The frame rates are pretty much a rock solid 60 fps @ 1080p with everything maxed. I really couldn't be much happier with my purchase. I'm downloading BF3 to see what graphical wonders that'll give me.
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Best part is, neither tri SLI GTX 680's or GTX 670's can handle Crysis 2 @ 1080p with High res texture pack + MaldoHDV3, thanks to 2 GB VRAM limit. :P

Also, Firefall is SO FREAKIN GOOD!!
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Challenge accepted.

My trusty twin GTX 580 3GB setup will show these young bucks who is boss.
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Best part is, neither tri SLI GTX 680's or GTX 670's can handle Crysis 2 @ 1080p with High res texture pack + MaldoHDV3, thanks to 2 GB VRAM limit. :P
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runs fine here on gtx 680 1080p, dx11, high res pack, maldo hd 3.0 (ssdo, fov, fps limiter etc also enabled) 16xhqaf and adaptive vsync forced in drivers, uses about 1.9gb and plays at 60fps most of the time

edit: inject smaa @ ultra also
 
bee said:
runs fine here on gtx 680 1080p, dx11, high res pack, maldo hd 3.0 (ssdo, fov, fps limiter etc also enabled) 16xhqaf and adaptive vsync forced in drivers, uses about 1.9gb and plays at 60fps most of the time
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I believe it... except at 1440p I was hitting 2.3 GB of VRAM usage. So anything past 1080p and the 680 goes bye bye. So I misspoke: 680 GTX CAN do it at 1080p.
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
I believe it... except at 1440p I was hitting 2.3 GB of VRAM usage. So anything past 1080p and the 680 goes bye bye. So I misspoke: 680 GTX CAN do it at 1080p.
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yeah probably, although i've found a lot of games simply use as much vram as you have, say if you have a 1gb card it'll use 900mb or so, then try again on a 2gb card and it'll maybe use 1.4gb with no performance difference. in my experience 2gb is enough for 5760 x 1080 in most games (obviously there's exceptions) as you cant really run anything above 2xaa at that res unless its something like iracing
 
bee said:
yeah probably, although i've found a lot of games simply use as much vram as you have, say if you have a 1gb card it'll use 900mb or so, then try again on a 2gb card and it'll maybe use 1.4gb with no performance difference. in my experience 2gb is enough for 5760 x 1080 in most games (obviously there's exceptions) as you cant really run anything above 2xaa at that res unless its something like iracing
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Only game that works like that is BF3... it'll dynamically scale VRAM. Anything else, once you hit the limit, it'll start swapping into system RAM and rape your FPS.

A great example of this is Skyrim: If you load up too much AA, resolution, and high res textures, it'll run fine when you're facing one direction, but when you turn around it'll dip down to 20-30 FPS for a second or two, load it all into VRAM, and then be smooth again. Rage works similarly.

When it comes to supersampling AA, anything below 2 GB pretty much sucks (unless you're running something with low res assets like Mass Effect 3).
 
BoobPhysics101 said:
Only game that works like that is BF3... it'll dynamically scale VRAM. Anything else, once you hit the limit, it'll start swapping into system RAM and rape your FPS.
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certainly not in our experience of comparing between gtx 470, 580 and 560ti 2gb, quite a lot of games showed more vram usage on my 2gb 560's than my friends on 1.2 and 1.5gb cards at the same settings
 
when are the 4gb versions of the 680 coming out? And which brands will they be released under? I want to hold out for the 4gb version, unless they'll be drastically higher in price. Will they?
 
isamu said:
when are the 4gb versions of the 680 coming out? And which brands will they be released under? I want to hold out for the 4gb version, unless they'll be drastically higher in price. Will they?
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Several brands will have 4gb cards..actually, I think they all will. I thought someone said there was one releasing soon, I think it was the Galaxy brand, but can't remember.
 
isamu said:
when are the 4gb versions of the 680 coming out? And which brands will they be released under? I want to hold out for the 4gb version, unless they'll be drastically higher in price. Will they?
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EVGA 4GB versions are rumored to hit around early / mid may. The Galaxy / KFA2 4GB model is slated for this month, some stores have it set for April 18th.

I know there's more but the only two I've heard something about the release date for.
 
Has anyone been reading user reports that they altered the driver to allow PCI3.0 on their cards/motheboard? Over at EVGA there is a user that has posted screenshots of GPUZ that shows that indeed PC3.0 is active. He also posted screenshots of the difference in speed between 2.0 and 3.0. He is running 4xSLI 680's and that difference is pretty significant between 2.0 and 3.0.

Just wondering if anyone else has heard how much more 3.0 will bring to the table for performance.

Here is the link the the forum post over at EVGA....

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1537816
 
Hawk269 said:
Has anyone been reading user reports that they altered the driver to allow PCI3.0 on their cards/motheboard? Over at EVGA there is a user that has posted screenshots of GPUZ that shows that indeed PC3.0 is active. He also posted screenshots of the difference in speed between 2.0 and 3.0. He is running 4xSLI 680's and that difference is pretty significant between 2.0 and 3.0.

Just wondering if anyone else has heard how much more 3.0 will bring to the table for performance.

Here is the link the the forum post over at EVGA....

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1537816
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I've heard bad things. But even if that weren't the case, there's not much to be had from 3.0 over 2.0. Its nothing to really be too concerned about ATM.
 
Odd, remember seeing a lot of benchmarks between 2.0, 1.1 and what they're all called and the performance gains were minimal at best because they all had so much bandwidth. So either we've finally hit the limit of bandwidth or something else is going on here.
 
Sethos said:
Odd, remember seeing a lot of benchmarks between 2.0, 1.1 and what they're all called and the performance gains were minimal at best because they all had so much bandwidth. So either we've finally hit the limit of bandwidth or something else is going on here.
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Yeah...reading the thread, this user is claiming some really great improvements with it, but not many people have done this, so it is hard to really know what impact 2.0 vs. 3.0 if you have the CPU, MOBO and GPU that all can do it. You would think there would be a pretty good imrpovement, but not enough data to be sure.
 
Sethos said:
EVGA 4GB versions are rumored to hit around early / mid may. The Galaxy / KFA2 4GB model is slated for this month, some stores have it set for April 18th.

I know there's more but the only two I've heard something about the release date for.
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Talked to some people today. Late May/Early June now it seems for eVGA FTW and Classified cards. Not sure if there will be an air classified.
 
Hawk269 said:
Has anyone been reading user reports that they altered the driver to allow PCI3.0 on their cards/motheboard? Over at EVGA there is a user that has posted screenshots of GPUZ that shows that indeed PC3.0 is active. He also posted screenshots of the difference in speed between 2.0 and 3.0. He is running 4xSLI 680's and that difference is pretty significant between 2.0 and 3.0.

Just wondering if anyone else has heard how much more 3.0 will bring to the table for performance.

Here is the link the the forum post over at EVGA....

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1537816
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Wow, that's quite an intense setup. If there is a difference, I guess it wouldn't matter for single card users. I don't even remember even seeing benchmarks showing improvements from pcie 1.1 to 2.0
 
Hawk269 said:
Has anyone been reading user reports that they altered the driver to allow PCI3.0 on their cards/motheboard? Over at EVGA there is a user that has posted screenshots of GPUZ that shows that indeed PC3.0 is active. He also posted screenshots of the difference in speed between 2.0 and 3.0. He is running 4xSLI 680's and that difference is pretty significant between 2.0 and 3.0.

Just wondering if anyone else has heard how much more 3.0 will bring to the table for performance.

Here is the link the the forum post over at EVGA....

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1537816
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Looks like the 680 is finally using more than x8 PCI-E 2.0 bandwidth. Still doesn't matter a single bit for x16. Basically, this is something that you should take note of if: you run 2x SLI on an 1155 board or 3x + SLI on a 2011 board.
 
mkenyon said:
Looks like the 680 is finally using more than x8 PCI-E 2.0 bandwidth. Still doesn't matter a single bit for x16. Basically, this is something that you should take note of if: you run 2x SLI on an 1155 board or 3x + SLI on a 2011 board.
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I'd not call some random guys findings conclusive yet. The 590 should theoretically be using more bandwidth but haven't heard of any gains there on 3.0. I'm still not convinced as the amount of bandwidth you can push through even 2.0 x8 is quite a lot - Hopefully a trusted hardware site or two decides to pick it up and run with it.
 
2 days until my 680 arrives... I am excite! As soon as I get it, the 570's are going out and the OC'ing will begin. Hoping for around 11-12k on 3dmark11.
 
Hazaro said:
If I stop by Ill ask, but I dont think he can say.
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No price leak, no Ivy Bridge date ("Soon").

ASUS said Direct CU 'soon'. Got the impression it would be later than eVGA offerings for whatever reason.

Passed by the CM booth twice, but had deadlines I was already late for, so no passing shoutouts :(
 
Hazaro said:
No price leak, no Ivy Bridge date ("Soon").

ASUS said Direct CU 'soon'. Got the impression it would be later than eVGA offerings for whatever reason.

Passed by the CM booth twice, but had deadlines I was already late for, so no passing shoutouts :(
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Did you ask/hear EVGA say anything about the OC bios mode on their classified Keplar cards? Curious as to how that differs from the now normal offset ocing.
 
Now that I am home and able to read more about the driver update...seems to me they have closed the game considerably between the 570/580 -> 680 (feature wise and performance wise). Add to the fact that 580s can be gotten for good prices now..this driver update is pretty nice.
 
Woooo! Please come out soon.

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http://www.cowcotland.com/news/3111...es-specs-de-la-gtx-680-twin-frozr-de-msi.html
 



Finally arrived from Amazon!


A bit of buyers remorse setting in, I can't think of any hardware demanding PC games coming out in the next year to justify the cost of it :/
 
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