Anyone Know When The Next Gen Nvidia Cards Are Being Released

[Terbinator]

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.

But without explicitly stating 1440p/1600p i think 1080p players is the given medium.

Edit: It will be interesting to see what was cut away GPGPU wise when the proper reviews roll around.

[kalniel]

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

Erm.. what?

None of the charts show minimums do they?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

But without explicitly stating 1440p/1600p i think 1080p players is the given medium.

It does not change the fact people on many forums including Hexus for example were complaining about this specifically and I suspect the GTX680 in a 4GB version would do better. TBH, I personally don't care as I don't have a 2560X1600 monitor,so a card like a GTX680 2GB would do me fine but alas it way above the sort of cash I want to spend!!

I just get the feeling this will become the GTX760 or GTX770 at some point,once the GK110 is released at the end of the year.

[Terbinator]

erm.. What?

None of the charts show minimums do they?

fml.

[Phage]

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

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Edit!!

It seems in Metro2033 and Crysis2 the cards are not that far apart in DX11 mode. Even power consumption seems to be between an HD7950 and HD7970.

Still,the GTX680 does seem to have the edge.

[Terbinator]

http://www.mediafire.com/?b14gcd1586efbsl

I uploaded them here as well^

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Slides uploaded here by someone else just in case:

http://imgur.com/a/RCDqK#15

[Terbinator]

Impressive turn-around from Fermi. Shame they left out P/Watt for 1600p though given some tests are at that.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Impressive turn-around from Fermi. Shame they left out P/Watt for 1600p though given some tests are at that.

It will be interesting to see how the HD7800 series compares. TPU puts the HD7870 as having 28% higher performance/watt than an HD7970,so I suspect the GTX680 will have an edge over the HD7800 series in this regard.

So,now where is the GTX670 and GTX660??

Edit!!

One thing though - remember that GTX680 has relatively poor compute performance when compared to the GTX580. So in this regard it is not a fair fight.

Only the GK110 can completely answer the question of how much more efficient Kepler is overall.

[kalniel]

Yup this is more like the 560 type cards - low compute, but good in games and relatively fixed functions.

[watercooled]

I wonder how this will work in regards to Tesla cards? I'm thinking at least DP might be heavily limited in the consumer card, either that or this is only really intended as a gaming platform? But I seem to remember hearing about how good a compute platform Kepler is meant to be?

[kalniel]

I wonder how this will work in regards to Tesla cards? I'm thinking at least DP might be heavily limited in the consumer card, either that or this is only really intended as a gaming platform? But I seem to remember hearing about how good a compute platform Kepler is meant to be?

I don't remember hearing much about Kepler for compute, except that as hinted at it is very fast at a few fixed functionalities. I would expect the cancelled gk100 model would be more compute capable - it's a mirroring of the AMD 7800 vs 7900 series.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The HD7870 might be stronger in compute!! WTF?? Its a good thing for Nvidia that CUDA is so commonly used.





I would put Mediaexpresso and Luxmark comparisons but it seems Toms has changed the settings all of a sudden?? Why??

[EvanJackPenn]

So,now where is the GTX670 and GTX660??

I know! I can't bear to wait any longer than until Ivy Bridge, so if they don't have a 660 out I'll have to go 7850/7870

[Terbinator]

You think they'd just lift the NDA now.