NVIDIA Kepler GeForce GTX 680 Gets Benchmarked – Blows away the HD 7970

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Below is just a cut and paste from an interesting article I came across, hope its cool to post it here like so.

A user on HKEPC has posted the first real benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU which features the Kepler GK104 28nm chip. The user backed his benchmark with a shot of the GTX 680 running on a LN2 cooled rig.

The benchmarks pit the GeForce GTX 680 against the Radeon HD 7970 and GeForce GTX 580 – Both GPU’s are NVIDIA/AMD’s current flagship cards. The clocks of GeForce GTX 680 are maintained at a 1006Mhz Core and 6008Mhz Memory clock. Test bed included the following rig:

Intel Core i7 3960X (Turbo Boost)

ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard

8 GB (4x 2 GB) GeIL EVO 2 DDR3-2200 MHz quad-channel memory

Corsair AX1200W PSU

Windows 7 x64

The GPU’s were benchmarked in 3DMark 11 (Performance and Extreme Preset) along with a few gaming titles, Temperatures were also recorded. You can check the slides below:

Here we have another 3DMark 11 Screenshot which shows the GPU running at 706Mhz Core, This shows that the GPU switches to a higher frequency (1006Mhz) at 100% load when Speed Boost kicks in – More details on that here. Overall we are looking at great performance from GeForce GTX 680 which is not only faster but also operates at a much lower temperature and consumes lesser power than its rival HD 7970.

From.. http://wccftech.com

 

[Ghosthud1]

that is all

 

[DB006]

Lol, Nvidiot

They released a proper fair benchmarks later on after derping the first one in favour of Nvidia

It trades blows with 7970, but is a heavily overclocked GPU up from the original 700mhz to over 1000mhz, so you can kiss overclocking headroom goodbye

 

[Cyanide89]

So basically... I should keep my GTX 590 and forget this card.

 

[Damien c]

I looked through all the slides and one thing that has me thinking they are dodgy is the Modern Warfare 3 slide, as my GTX 480 @ stock speeds get's 91fps nearly 99% of the times and when it drops it only goes down, to around 80fps.

Until I see reviews from TTL and Bit-Tech I am not saying these are good or bad cards, although going by those "real" slides it seems the Nvidia card does really well.

 

[Cyanide89]

I looked through all the slides and one thing that has me thinking they are dodgy is the Modern Warfare 3 slide, as my GTX 480 @ stock speeds get's 91fps nearly 99% of the times and when it drops it only goes down, to around 80fps.

Until I see reviews from TTL and Bit-Tech I am not saying these are good or bad cards, although going by those "real" slides it seems the Nvidia card does really well.

Yeah I was a bit confused as well. The 580 got around 60 but my 590 maxes out at 120... Somethings fishy.

 

[Nathlm]

Yeah I was a bit confused as well. The 580 got around 60 but my 590 maxes out at 120... Somethings fishy.

Yeah my 5850 gets around 90-100 aswell (with dips into 80) but it may be that MW3 is a weird game for performance or that it's because they're using 8xAA which you can't use on MW3. I suppose it could be using CCC/nvidia control panel!

Also it is a bit weird that they are running all on 8xAA when (I think) there was a leak that said that they were highly optimised for AA and stuff but when not on it didn't do as good as other cards

 

[Damien c]

Yeah I was a bit confused as well. The 580 got around 60 but my 590 maxes out at 120... Somethings fishy.

On single player, and the Spec Op's mode I am hitting over 100 constantly but max out at 91 on multi player.

I think it's capped at 91 in the multi player config file, and I think the max on the single player config is 120 but as far as I am aware there is no way of changing, it due to the locked down config files.

 

[SieB]

I wouldn't say blows the 7970 away, most of those games are Nvidia optimized. Looks like it is slightly better than the 7970 though, but not by much.

It comes down to the price of the 680, the possible price drop from AMD and overclockability of the 680 before we can decide which one is the best.

 

[FTLN]

I wouldn't say blows the 7970 away, most of those games are Nvidia optimized. Looks like it is slightly better than the 7970 though, but not by much.

It comes down to the price of the 680, the possible price drop from AMD and overclockability of the 680 before we can decide which one is the best.

I concur, I think Price is the main factor here.

I heard some reports that the 680 being shown here was going to be released as a 660ti but due to great performance was release as a 680...

Also if this is true then i reckon overclocking is going to massive on this card.....

TTL Defo has one on his bench table im sure,,,, I think somebody should kidnap strawbz and hold him to ramson until TTL gives us more info

 

[SieB]

I heard some reports that the 680 being shown here was going to be released as a 660ti but due to great performance was release as a 680...

The rumor is that it is the 660Ti but Nvidia have overclocked the crap out of it and they have labeled it as a 680. In other words they have taken a mid range card overclocked it and labeled it as a high end card.

Also if this is true then i reckon overclocking is going to massive on this card.....

If it is true about them overclocking it massively anyway then it won't have much overclock headroom left. With it already being 1000mhz + at stock it seems like it is true.

It's all rumors from the ever growing rumor list for Kepler, I don't think I have ever seen so many rumors for a product as there is for Kepler, it's getting ridiculous. We will find out soon enough what is true and what isn't though, Hopefully

 

[leejc73]

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Timbaloo]

The original clock speed was said to be 900-950MHz. NV then raised it a bit (which is not a massive overclock) beyond their target, likely to beat/match the 7970 in performance while still being better in terms of power consumption. Review will tell. Performance on par or slightly better than 7970, lower power consumption (@Tom, cover this in the review please) on a smaller chip.

 

[SieB]

The original clock speed was said to be 900-950MHz. NV then raised it a bit (which is not a massive overclock)

No one knew what the clock speed was or meant to be, Nvidia hasn't even announced anything officially and all we have is these new benches showing the clock speed. So to say Nvidia decided to raise the clocks a bit isn't true because Nvidia hasn't said anything about specs at all. The rumors about them taking a mid range card and OCing it to a high end card has been around for a while now though.

Everything is rumors and nothing is proven, we will find out what is and isn't true soon though.

 

[Timbaloo]

No one knew what the clock speed was or meant to be

I read the 900-950MHz way before the 700MHz rumor in a speculation thread (german). So i know which story i believe. But okay, it's not proven, just like the "massive overclock" story is not proven. However, ask yourself which one is more likely, given the final clocks. The answer _should_ be easy.

 

[SieB]

So i know which story i believe. But okay, it's not proven, just like the "massive overclock" story is not proven. However, ask yourself which one is more likely, given the final clocks. The answer _should_ be easy.

But the point is i'm saying nothing is proven and it's why I said it's all rumors, anything you read moths ago isn't true because no one knew anything and it was all speculation. Only recently have real details emerged because now we have actual benches, pics of the cards and specs.

Anything before that has all been proven to be untrue so I am more likely to believe the more recent rumors over the older ones especially now that we have the specs and benches. Nvidia still has not officially said anything what so ever about Kepler, everything that has been said is just rumors based on speculation.  

 

[Timbaloo]

But the point is i'm saying nothing is proven and it's why I said it's all rumors, anything you read moths ago isn't true because no one knew anything and it was all speculation. Only recently have real details emerged because now we have actual benches, pics of the cards and specs.

The guy that told this has pretty good insight and sources, but true, it does not mean anything. But i still believe an overclock from initial 700MHz to 1000+MHz is BS. Does that sound even remotely sane to you?

 

[SieB]

The guy that told this has pretty good insight and sources, but true, it does not mean anything. But i still believe an overclock from initial 700MHz to 1000+MHz is BS. Does that sound even remotely sane to you?

No one knows what the clock speeds were, were meant to be, if they have been changed, how far they have been overclocked and if they have been overclocked at all.

700 - 1000 doesn't sound unrealistic 7970s do 900 - 1200 plus Kepler is a smaller than Tahiti so should be able to overclock higher. I'm not saying it's true but i'm not saying it isn't either, I wont believe anything until after Kepler has been officially released and there are reviews on Anandtech, here and a few other places.   

 

[S_I_N]

Timbaloo what SieB is trying to say is there is no stock clocks yet until they are released.. Once in full production we will learn what stock clocks are and whats overclocked. Say i make a card and I want it at 500 but during my testing on it I find I can do 750 without issues well my new stock speed just went to 750 not the original 500. so anything you read months ago was rumored not factual. Until they are released nothing is set in stone even pre release review samples are open to be changed before the full release.

 

[Damien c]

I concur, I think Price is the main factor here.

I heard some reports that the 680 being shown here was going to be released as a 660ti but due to great performance was release as a 680...

Also if this is true then i reckon overclocking is going to massive on this card.....

TTL Defo has one on his bench table im sure,,,, I think somebody should kidnap strawbz and hold him to ramson until TTL gives us more info

I think he has a GTX 680 as well, especially when you consider the Subscriber video 17 which was uploaded either today or yesterday has a, anti static bag over a card and the 2 lot's of power cables can roughly be seen through it and they look like they are stacked and not side by side.

Hope the NDA is up soon and that the review is up soon as well.