The Nvidia GTX 680 Thread

[Duff-Man]

Its now under 24 hours till the day when the new GTX 680 will be released. Bear in mind that these cards will be "reference cards" and not overclocked cards (Not made by board partners : ASUS, MSI etc.), you will have to wait just a bit longer for that .

One of the most interesting rumours is that the GK104 based GTX 680 might not be the fastest of the Kepler series, but a possible GK110 based card would be, this however might force a GeForce GTX 700 series label. Don't expect this "supposed" card to come out anytime before August this year. As always take this with a pinch of salt.
http://www.techpowerup.com/162765/GK110-Specifications-Approximated.html

The suggested retail price for the GTX 680 has been quoted for $499.99, : http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26437-nvidia-gtx-680-price-now-set-at-us-$499

Less than the $549.99 needed for a 7970. If leaked benchmarks are true which show an average 15% performance gain over the 7970, Nvidia will, for once, beat AMD's price/performance ratio.

Visit this site for more rumours : http://www.fudzilla.com

 

[Gtx Gaming]

yeah hope amd drop there prices and drop prices of 7870 also

 

[Shirou]

Any release date for the GTX 680 in SA?

 

[Duff-Man]

Any release date for the GTX 680 in SA?

Possible a week or two after international release

 

[Shirou]

Possible a week or two after international release

Scweet, do you guys recon it will be better than the 7970?

 

[Duff-Man]

yeah hope amd drop there prices and drop prices of 7870 also

Same here, most likely when GTX 660/670 releases.

 

[Duff-Man]

Scweet, do you guys recon it will be better than the 7970?

Around a 15% overall performance gain over a 7970.

 

[Shirou]

Around a 15% overall performance gain over a 7970.

Not bad, because was looking in getting the GTX 680 been waiting.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

but can it play bf3 ultra with eyefinty with aa

 

[nakedpeanut]

People better post here when the first reputable benchmarks are revealed!

 

[Archer]

People better post here when the first reputable benchmarks are revealed!

That should be 6AM PST (well PDT since its winter now) if my memory on Nvidia NDAs is correct. So thats... 15h00 local time?

 

[nakedpeanut]

Thats still long to wait

 

[Slayeruser]

We really need to see the "real world" performance on these.
So we can decide if it's worth the while when it finally arrives in SA

 

[nakedpeanut]

We usually get new cards pretty quick here, within 1-2 weeks. But the pricing, that is a whole other story.

 

[cerebus]

People better post here when the first reputable benchmarks are revealed!

Toms already leaked... and promptly took down and sent cease/desist notices across the internet. But they were quite legit and the numbers were consistently in favour of the 680... 42% perf per watt over 7970, 15-18% general performance.

 

[nakedpeanut]

Toms already leaked... and promptly took down and sent cease/desist notices across the internet. But they were quite legit and the numbers were consistently in favour of the 680... 42% perf per watt over 7970, 15-18% general performance.

Awesome!

 

[Archer]

Toms already leaked... and promptly took down and sent cease/desist notices across the internet. But they were quite legit and the numbers were consistently in favour of the 680... 42% perf per watt over 7970, 15-18% general performance.

I'm guessing you missed the part where the HD7970 dropped 10fps between now and when the HD7950 was reviewed. Think it was Dirt3 in which this happened

 

[nakedpeanut]

Found them: http://videocardz.com/31104/geforce-gtx-680-review-tomshardware

 

[Archer]

First review is up, because Nvidia never sent them the NDA details, lol. Loading might be slow, I've only managed to see one page so far
Linky

 

[nakedpeanut]

First review is up, because Nvidia never sent them the NDA details, lol. Loading might be slow, I've only managed to see one page so far
Linky

Hahaha thats how you perform a DDOS... Link to a kepler review today!

They don't have BF3 in that review