News - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Specifications Revealed?

[HEXUS]

Possible announcement on March 12th for rumoured release on March 23rd.

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[edvinasm]

Another yum-yum for today At last a month with some exciting releases.

[HalloweenJack]

ram is ofc doable since the 7970 also uses it (Hynix H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C)

[ZSTom]

Those two dates, 12 and 23 March, seem to be popping up quite a bit the last few days, and 'end of March' has been getting said by a few sources too. I hope it's true; AMD need some competition right now.

[HalloweenJack]

amd pretty much have the full range out now (7670 is a rebrand of the 6670)

[edvinasm]

amd pretty much have the full range out now (7670 is a rebrand of the 6670)

Pity AMD has pricing strategy that matches that of monopoly. No wonder everyone is waiting for NVidia.

[Jimbo75]

Pity AMD has pricing strategy that matches that of monopoly. No wonder everyone is waiting for NVidia.

Yep, Nvidia are well known for their great prices. Wait...what?

[Hicks12]

Pity AMD has pricing strategy that matches that of monopoly. No wonder everyone is waiting for NVidia.

Monopoly? I dont think you have read what you posted , it cant be a monopoly....

AMD is pricing their cards to compete with Nvidia cards, they use less power perform the same (overclock better) and cost the same... seriously how is that a monopoly?. Im pretty sure Nvidia is the company that can be assigned monopoly pricing strategies a good few years ago but now both are rather competitive.

If AMD released their cards and changed double Nvidia then yes id agree but only if everyone still bought them . AMD are recouping R&D, prices will drop and Nvidia will be at a disadvantage here as they came to the market later (as is their development schedule) since they lack any "free" competition months so cant price a bit higher than they could sell at to regain the development costs quicker.

Regardless though i whole heartedly agree that Nvidia need to arrive asap to drop the AMD prices below current gen to make them even better .

It does look as though Nvidia chips are going to be good mind, if this spec is anything to look at! 3x the amount of shaders is quite insane

However I really expect a flop , hopefully its not the case .

[kalniel]

I think I'm expecting good performance.. but an even higher price tag to match. They seem to like creating new price point while there's still inventory floating around.

[Phage]

However I really expect a flop , hopefully its not the case .

I'm expecting something like a fermi release. The real meaty card, the 7970 beater, will be 6 months away. This one will be good, between 7950 and 7970, but not the new king.
It's the pricing that will be key.

[HalloweenJack]

seen 2 rumours that say it wont be as cheap as people think it will be

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Another yum-yum for today At last a month with some exciting releases.

coincidentally thats the name of my latest build of an app i am working on

[Domestic_Ginger]

People are saying it has four arses and no mouth.

I'm just glad we're having to sit through all those tesselation demos done by large men this time around.

[Hicks12]

Yes Phage i think thats probably more like the Nvidia we know , if im honest i was expecting AMD cards to be a pile of poop since its totally new (like fermi...) which is why i think the 8000 series will actually build on the 7000 performance alot.

So i think a possible scenario is:

AMD Cards are top(currently released) ---> Nvidia release Kepler, OK performance but extremely power hungry again, people buy AMD as its still the better option ---> Nvidia reduce prices to try and compete, AMD also reduce prices... stays the same ---> Nvidia release a new gtx660 style chip and Nvidia starts looking solid in price/performance and ok in power effciency, mid range taken by nvidia ---> AMD release 8000 series, destroys everything ---> Nvidia releases Next gen cards that destroy 8k series.

Rinse and repeat?

[shaithis]

I would like to think nVidia learnt a lot from the fermi launch and won't need a re-spin for the new cards to be competitive in all aspects.

[edvinasm]

Another yum-yum for today At last a month with some exciting releases.

coincidentally thats the name of my latest build of an app i am working on

Sorry, forgot to ad, courtesy of j.o.s.h.1408 Yeah.. Everyone in this forum has an opinion, I will wait for proper benchmark and then we will see what's where Oh and IMO AMD sucks (freedom of opinion, hey?).