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

[Rastalovich]

Hmmm, doing to the 7970 what it did to the 580.. for possibly made-up stuff, it's seeming to be a trend.

What's strange to me, as I'm still of the opinion this is basically a 580 that's been die shrunk and api updated, is that for all the additional clocks that have been added to it (supposedly) the power use isn't spiralling out of control.

Previous trends with over clocked stuff is for the power graphs to up non-uniformly once you start.

Still don't think this is proper kepler. It's more like fermi with some kepler benefits and exploited.

 

[006409]

i think we should just wait and see what happens.

And let the best company win!

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

FAKE AND GAY

 

[Cyanide89]

Not real and homosexual.

 

[Nculver]

Disregard fraudulent material and I am upset.

 

[Ray Marree]

Price is what drives people to buy most things. So the Price to Preformance ratio will a bit of information to keep your eye on. If the 680 comes out at 600+ Dollars(USD) then I think it may some what of a wash. The 7970 preform very well and unless you alot of cash just lying around then I dont think that the extra $40 - $100 that you could possibly be paying justifys the extra 12 to 20 fps you get. Also power usage? Come on.... really? i understand that electricity cost money but the difference we are talking about is about 25 watts. Most people know when building a high end system the one thing dont cheap out one is???........ POWER SUPPLY : Correct. So if the difference in power consumption difference is the big game changer then you need a new psu.

Sorry for the rant lol. Just saying some of the big "issues" people bring up arent really and issue. They just like to create arguing points.

TTL one of the best reviewers ever. Thanks for all the help and info you have given us all Tom.

Plz review this card ASAP

 

[Pendragon]

Well I hope it's a monster, Nvidia playing leap frog with AMD and the new 680 become the new king of the hill.

Whatever the benchmarks say I want the 680 to be a good 15% or so faster than the 7970. Why, cos I want AMD to drop the chuffing price of the 7970 so I can afford one

then in a few months save up for a second one. That's all...

 

[killablade]

Price is what drives people to buy most things. So the Price to Preformance ratio will a bit of information to keep your eye on. If the 680 comes out at 600+ Dollars(USD) then I think it may some what of a wash. The 7970 preform very well and unless you alot of cash just lying around then I dont think that the extra $40 - $100 that you could possibly be paying justifys the extra 12 to 20 fps you get. Also power usage? Come on.... really? i understand that electricity cost money but the difference we are talking about is about 25 watts. Most people know when building a high end system the one thing dont cheap out one is???........ POWER SUPPLY : Correct. So if the difference in power consumption difference is the big game changer then you need a new psu.

Sorry for the rant lol. Just saying some of the big "issues" people bring up arent really and issue. They just like to create arguing points.

TTL one of the best reviewers ever. Thanks for all the help and info you have given us all Tom.

Plz review this card ASAP

Like you said yourself, electricity costs money. To a lot of people it's not just about whether your PSU can handle it or not, it's also about their electricity bills.

If, for example, the GTX680 performs 10% better than the HD7970, while consuming 20% less power, then that is a big deal.

 

[Stryker64]

I just want Nvidia to release the new cards already, not because I want to buy them, because freaken AMD is able to charge a surplus on their HD7000s graphics cards.

With regards to the clock speed, if this video on Youtube isn't lying. Ujesh Desai is the VP of Marketing and the guy in video does look like him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxXk-iXLjiY&feature=player_embedded#!

A little over 1GHz, now that can be seen as wow the cards are being shipping with a 1GHz stock clock! Or a more negative outlook, Nvidia have to ship cards on clocked to the limit to compete against AMD HD7970s which from what I've read are being held back my the software overclocking utilities with the limited sliders, not the capabilities of the GPU.

In the video there is also a run of BF3 with the FPS counter on the top of the screen. Assuming the counter is accurate and it's at 1080P Ultra with no AA (Hard to yell from a Youtube video). An AMD 7970 would average around 85 FPS, and in this video you see it jumping about averaging around 80. So obviously it could be higher AA settings, or the performance isn't all that its cracked up to be. That's just my take on the information that is currently available to us.

 

[FishCommander]

Hey I'm new so feel free to give me hell!

The 680 is being released with 2Gbs of Ram which is really no problem for me but the 7970 has 3Gbs... for multi screen gaming is this going to be a problem? I know in the uploaded Nvidia video it shows 3 gaming screens and looks like an lcd TV above it running off the card. Dunno of any game 'actually' will require all 3Gbs or even 2 at the moment (multi screen).

More just curious than anything, heard rumor of the 680 coming in a 4Gb version but I'm not jumping to any conclusions about the card till I see some benchmarks

Thanks

FishCommander

 

[Rastalovich]

It's a feint subject, imo.

Very much the arguments are put forward that you need gigs and gigs for multiple screens, but thinking loosely about all the textures being buffered anyway, whether you have 1 screen or 6, they'll all still be there - then you're just displaying an image (and possibly 2 pre-images) for each screen. Depending on how the rendering engine choses to work. A laptop with minimal dedicated memory can run up a screen with a huge resolution - but that's just displaying. An elitebook we have here is just an i5 minimal and displays 3 different screens (still not sure how it's doing it, but it is).

What would be nice is some bench results where people have run the usual suspects of benchmark-games, on multiple and single screens, just to get exact numbers of gmemory use.

There are fps utils that will show the info.

2G for 3 gaming screens and a simple display ? GTA won't be played on that rig at highest settings, neither would World at War. (they show memory use in their runtime demos and a single 1.5 g card using a single screen prevents you setting highest values because of the lack of memory)

 

[Damien c]

Saw a review on a Chinese site, that has now been taken down but from what I saw of the performance the GTX 680 had a decent margin between it and the 7970 up to 1920x1200, but once you went above the gap closed quite abit which I suspect is down to the Vram and early drivers.

Didn't look at the power etc as this card is supposed to be "high end" and most people thinking about buying one probably wouldn't, be to worried about power usuage etc aslong as it's not supidly high, if I remember correctly though I think I saw somewhere a 200w idle for the whole system and 450w for the whole system under load.