Anyone Know When The Next Gen Nvidia Cards Are Being Released

[Terbinator]

I doubt it - MSAA on deferred rendering is a PITA. Especially if Kepler is as low memory bandwidth as it's reported to be.

GTX580 levels of bandwidth isn't low, surely?

Here is a clearer picture of the card:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...89&postcount=8

Edit!!

Supposedly,the embossed letters are backlit.

Takemymoneynow.jpg

Edit: Interesting comment in that thread that notes it looks like a 5, not a 6, on the card.

[kalniel]

GTX580 levels of bandwidth isn't low, surely?

Thought it was much lower than gtx 580?

And yep that says 570ti

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

GTX580 levels of bandwidth isn't low, surely?





Edit: Interesting comment int hat thread that notes it looks like a 5, not a 6, on the card.

Fixed for you.

TBH,the backlit green logo might not be so good for my system,as it would not look right with my case,and the graphics card is fully exposed too.

[Terbinator]

Thought it was much lower than gtx 580?

And yep that says 570ti

Nar. The rumoured specs have the memory speed jacked right up to compensate for the smaller bus.

Fixed for you.

TBH,the backlit green logo might not be so good for my system,as it would not look right with my case,and the graphics card is fully exposed too.

CAT, i can't see any fix? What is this Moose madness.

I don't care how it looks, my side-panel isn't windowed but it would warm me inside knowing it was there.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

CAT, i can't see any fix? What is this Moose madness.

I forget you don't have a head!!

I don't care how it looks, my side-panel isn't windowed but it would warm me inside knowing it was there.

Neither does mine!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Paper launch on the 12th of March:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/03/08/t...ch-activities/

[Terbinator]

We already knew that though?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

We already knew that though?

The previous SA article about it was uncertain and the new one today talks about today being the date info is released to the press.

Some more info about the GK104:

http://www.techpowerup.com/162035/GK...-Detailed.html

Some hints of GTX680 performance:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=...7&postcount=68

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=...9&postcount=89

Some more pictures of the card:

http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1849001-1-1.html

It seems to use 8+6 PCI-E power connectors and the cooling system does look relatively hefty.

Some more indications of performance:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.p...postcount=2249

Even though Kepler looks like it should be relatively power efficient,the following picture is quite funny!!



http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...post1336864205

[Terbinator]

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Isn't that a very old chart?? Its been out for a while.

Edit!!

Not very old then but is was out a few weeks ago:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1673106

[scaryjim]

It seems to use 8+6 PCI-E power connectors

That would hint strongly at > 200W TDP...

[Terbinator]

That would hint strongly at > 200W TDP...

Yep. 195W according to a post on Aria.

O/T: Why has no one tried to re-create the Samaritan demo in the UDK yet?

[kalniel]

Yep. 195W according to a post on Aria.

195W is not >200W...

[scaryjim]

hmm, 195W and a 6+6 design would give ~ 15% power headroom. A 6+8 design gives > 50%!

Are they anticipating it being overclocked *very* heavily by enthusiasts? Why have that kind of nonsensical power overhead? 300W available for a 195W card? It makes no sense!!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It could be that at peak utilisation the Turbo Boost like technology can mean considerable spikes in power consumption??

I hope the reviews websites look into this otherwise,actual power consumption might look lower.

[kalniel]

hmm, 195W and a 6+6 design would give ~ 15% power headroom. A 6+8 design gives > 50%!

Are they anticipating it being overclocked *very* heavily by enthusiasts? Why have that kind of nonsensical power overhead? 300W available for a 195W card? It makes no sense!!!

If the 195W figure is right, it'll be nVidia's almost completely arbitrary 'in normal usage' figure I think the figure they gave for the 480 was quite amusing as well..