Anyone Know When The Next Gen Nvidia Cards Are Being Released

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Do we have any more news?

The latest leaks are in posts 298 and 299. The card will cost between £400 to £450 at launch and will be released on the 22nd and at least OcUK say they will have stock for sale.

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MSI marketing bumpf about the GTX680:

http://www.techpowerup.com/162685/MS...-Material.html

They says its 40% faster than a GTX580.

[Phage]

Like the comments !

"nice, 5-7% increase from default to overclock but they drawing the bar like it was 2 times faster. 2nd picture surely targeted for blind people.."

[Djini]

They says its 40% faster than a GTX580.

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To be fair, they say 40% higher, not faster...

Which incidently, is what we could say about the marketing team too.

[Phage]

To be fair, they say 40% higher, not faster...

Which incidently, is what we could say about the marketing team too.

Comment.of.the.day.

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Here is a picture of the control pane where you can manually change the Turbo Boost percentage:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.p...postcount=3000

Supposedly the difference between the GTX680 and HD7970 is similar to the difference between the GTX580 and the HD6970:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.p...postcount=3048

The TDP is meant to be between the HD6950 and HD6970. Power consumption and TDP of the GTX680 might end up being similar to an HD7950 3GB. Considering the HD7950 3GB has a more complex PCB and more VRAM,I wonder how close the TDP and power consumption of the GPUs(not the full cards) are though??

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Review figures from Toms Hardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/...7----jpg-.html

Get them quick!!

[kalniel]

Looks like there's several frequencies going by the EVGA tool.

They have an orange bar showing current frequency, which idled around ~360mhz. A green bar going up to a 1 on a separate scale, and ~700mhz on the frequency scale. Then some marks for base clock at ~1000mhz and 1.3 on the second scale, and boost at ~1050mhz about 1.35 on second scale.

My question is, the second scale seems to be showing a base clock, given it is centred around the value 1, and ties in with the rumours of a 705mhz base clock. But then there's a second base clock mark at 1008mhz - so what's going on? Shader clocks set to 700 throughout, and variable other clocks?

[Terbinator]

gogogogogo.

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The only thing is that BF3 performance at 2560X1600 is the same as the HD7970 3GB but for most other games tested it is much faster especially at 1920X1080.

[Terbinator]

The only thing is that BF3 performance at 2560X1600 is the same as the HD7970 3GB but for most other games tested it is much faster especially at 1920X1080.

Minimums frame-rates on Crysis better than the 7970's by some distance as well - surprised at that.

anyone know a filesharing site as I'll upraod a rar of the images.

Edit: We still need pricing though

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Minimums frame-rates on Crysis better than the 7970's by some distance as well - surprised at that.

anyone know a filesharing site as I'll upraod a rar of the images.

It looks for BF3 players either a 4GB GTX680 or the GK110 will be the only viable single GPU options.

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It seems GPGPU abilities have been severely curtailed on the GTX680 in favour of gaming performance.



This explains why it is so efficient.

[Terbinator]

It looks for BF3 players either a 4GB GTX680 or the GK110 will be the only viable single GPU options.

Why? A 680 scores 78FPS @ 1080p w/ MSAA?

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Why? A 680 scores 78FPS @ 1080p w/ MSAA?

A lot of people who were running BF3 on higher resolution panels and with multiple monitors complained that the HD7970 3GB was quite poor in those situations. Look at the 2560X1600 figures - both cards are the same.

It seems that unless a GTX680 4GB comes out,the performance has not gone forward.