nvidia working backwards for kepler?

[unknownuser200]

NVIDIA stumbled quite a bit with the Fermi, GF100 architecture and it looks as though they don't want to repeat the same mistakes by going top-to-bottom with GPU releases. NVIDIA are currently playing with engineering samples of their first chip built on the next-gen Kepler architecture, the GK107. This is not the flagship GK100 everyone expected, with NVIDIA changing gears and going for a bottom-to-top release by working on the GK107 first which will be a notebook-based chip.

read more here.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-sampling-kepler--gk107/13662.html

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Probable to combat the fact that the 7000 series Mobile Gpu's will be released soon maybe even by Christmas from what I hear.

 

[yassarikhan786]

It's good to see they are taking their time to ensure they release some excellent graphics cards.

 

[Rastalovich]

NVIDIA stumbled quite a bit with the Fermi, GF100 architecture and it looks as though they don't want to repeat the same mistakes by going top-to-bottom with GPU releases.

Stumbled ?

If the performance record breaker for a generation and a revised version in the current generation means stumbled, then I guess so.

(current charts still have them featuring at the top)

Reviewers + bandwagon.

 

[Lollipop]

I need a 680!!!

 

[SparkleDJackson]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. When is the 680 gonna comd out i was hoping end of q1. I will die if i have to wait more than that

 

[JackyBoy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. When is the 680 gonna comd out i was hoping end of q1. I will die if i have to wait more than that

Haha exactly what I was thinking. I am tired of waiting around, although longer to save up!

 

[JezEngland]

I have teh alpha sample

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. When is the 680 gonna comd out i was hoping end of q1. I will die if i have to wait more than that

anyway! result of that theory is the low end cards end up alot worse, comparing it to the whole series, when they're done 'n dusted and tarted up with some new drivers

making your 630 entry card poop!

probably, and the flagship cards do rule for price to performance, even today

gl NV

I'm waiting for the 7XX, I think, because Scan sold 480's for a mega discount soon after 580 released, £180, and if they do that still, the 680's, £180 each I say yes please & thank you very much

blimey it's 1 chip for a notebook, anything to get them dweeby machines more potent eh?

I bet we get a spanker desktop GPU hot off the press to begin its reign

 

[unknownuser200]

nvidia usually releases something highend during PAX im sure this will be no different, im sure tech there just on schedule, and this is a work up to it.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Stumbled ?

If the performance record breaker for a generation and a revised version in the current generation means stumbled, then I guess so.

(current charts still have them featuring at the top)

Reviewers + bandwagon.

Rast we all know the 400 was fail, even Nvidia admitted it, they even had the vendors on the back foot when they had the 500 series ready so early.

BUT......... It was worth it because the 500's were epic and smacked ATI a knockout punch IMHO, on par and even range leading performance but with quiet operation from the OEM cooler. The coolers won it for me tbh.

 

[marsey99]

Rast we all know the 400 was fail, even Nvidia admitted it, they even had the vendors on the back foot when they had the 500 series ready so early.

BUT......... It was worth it because the 500's were epic and smacked ATI a knockout punch IMHO, on par and even range leading performance but with quiet operation from the OEM cooler. The coolers won it for me tbh.

how dare you, how very dare you

460s was the start of said epicness, 465 and the rest were the hot noisey cards

this makes sense if you ask me, why work on a new high end card when you already have that side of things boxed off?

nv rule the roost with the 570 and 580 so why would they want to topple themselves?

 

[Rastalovich]

Rast we all know the 400 was fail, even Nvidia admitted it, they even had the vendors on the back foot when they had the 500 series ready so early.

Manchester United syndrome. (almost everyone's taught to hate them, yet they perform so well)

Early cos - 570=480 and the 580=480 enabled/unlocked, memory you can massage. fail ? There are some capacitors here and there, a new cooler (£30 generally), but that's the bottom line. There's no sneaky coding from revision to revision or smoke & mirrors.

Imo, and that's where we're all entitled, the series was trashed bandwagon style. nVidia came out with all kinds of corrections and updates that were en-mass ignored. The charts of performance(s) of the range still haunt the nay-sayers.

Still - imo. I just hope it doesn't happen to another product from whatever manufacturer.