Epic Demos Samaritan on Nvidia's Next-Gen Kepler GPU

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bloodymaze

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If this is what we can expect from Kepler... I am all for it, drive the prices down on the AMD and we "the consumer" are very happy and fortunate to have two powerhouse GPU makers...

VERY good graphics in that vid by the way... I'm very impressed.
 

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And in later news, epic releases a shooter game with low textures, weak overall visuals and no game control value at all because it is "optimized" for consoles but ofcorse while demoing what could been done they use PC as its the only option!
 

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Amen to that bloodymaze. If all the rumors are true(GTX680 with~40% higher performance than 7970 and 670 with 20% over 7970) and priced at 549.99 and 449.99 that will cause AMD prices to freefall. 7970 $399 7950 $299 7870 $249 7850 $199 7770 $149 7750 $99

This would be awesome for all of us...these prices would be fair :) Anyway, let's hope kepler will deliver...for all we know this could be 690 card runing this demo so we do not know only hope it is 680...
 

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I saw this video around 3 months ago.

Also, the video is just that a video. Not real game play.

But honestly, I expect good things from Kepler. Cannot wait to see its benchmarks!
 
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So those leaks showing Kepler having 1536 Cuda cores could actually be true then!
 

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That is indeed a video, as it's being viewed on Youtube, but the rendering for the video is done realtime through the new Epic graphics engine. Is this a hint that the new unreal engine will work better through nVidia? Probably optimized for it.

I highly doubt the new nVidia cards will be able to surpass what AMD has done at this stage. At best they'll hope to match them and beat them here and there through better drivers and optimization. If the GTX680 was going to perform so much better there'd be samples out there already to convince customers not to buy AMD cards right now.

Still a good idea to wait another month and see what makes the best bargain before buying, AMD card prices will probably drop slightly.
 

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[citation][nom]Niva[/nom]That is indeed a video, as it's being viewed on Youtube, but the rendering for the video is done realtime through the new Epic graphics engine. Is this a hint that the new unreal engine will work better through nVidia? Probably optimized for it. I highly doubt the new nVidia cards will be able to surpass what AMD has done at this stage. At best they'll hope to match them and beat them here and there through better drivers and optimization. If the GTX680 was going to perform so much better there'd be samples out there already to convince customers not to buy AMD cards right now.Still a good idea to wait another month and see what makes the best bargain before buying, AMD card prices will probably drop slightly.[/citation]

Have to totally agree with this. Although I believe that Nvidia will hold a few surprises, AMD still hase done very well on their 7xxx series.
 

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[citation][nom]RockNRollz[/nom]Have to totally agree with this. Although I believe that Nvidia will hold a few surprises, AMD still hase done very well on their 7xxx series.[/citation]

I "FAIL"to see how a card that is 10% faster in BF3 is a "FAIL". Sounds like a victory to me.
Looking forward to detailed benchmarks. Until then, theres no point in insulting anyones fanboy sensibilities.

Anyway, i am very excited to see what happens with pricing and performance during this go around with AMD/Nvidia. Time to upgrade soon!
 
[citation][nom]stm1185[/nom]So those leaks showing Kepler having 1536 Cuda cores could actually be true then![/citation]

GK104 is supposed to have 1536 cores WITHOUT hot-clocking, making them effectively a LOT slower than a Fermi CUDA core. Besides, GK100/110 is supposed to have more than that.

[citation][nom]KillerBees[/nom]You idiots need to read further and understand that this card is only 10% faster in Battlefield 3 vs HD7970. That is a FAIL!!! Here is proof for you Nvidia fanboys that this card is not that great: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-kepler- [...] er-hd7970/[/citation]

That card clearly has a GK-104, NOT a GTX 680 GPU. 680 will likely have a GK-100 or 110. I'm not too good with Nvidia GPU names so I'm not sure which it will be, but it's probably one of those two. That is something like a GTX 660 or 660 TI. GK-104 is supposed to have 1536 cores, NOT the high end GPUs in the 680, 670, maybe 660 TI. Of course, Nvidia might change names around too, so who knows?

Also, GK-104 is about the same size as Tahiti, so it is fairly similar in performance. AMD and Nvidia have similar performance per square mm of die. Considering that, and the increased power usage over the 7970, the 7970 and this GTX whatever probably overclock to about the same performance. The Nvidia card listed at that site is about 10% faster and uses about 20% more power, seems fairly reasonable if the main difference is clock rates (remember, clock rates increase power usage exponentially while increasing performance linearly).

Basically, the 7970 and this Nvidia card can probably run at similar performance while using similar amounts of power. However, it clearly states that the card is only UP TO 10% faster and is usally slower in 3Dmark, so it probably doesn't beat the 7970 anyway, in which case Nvidia could have failed. Then again, all of this is assuming that this link of yours isn't fake anyway. Since it really has little to say that even makes me assume it's true (it partially contradicts what Nvidia has been saying), I'm leaning on it being BS.

For example, it says that this card has hot-clocking despite Nvidia claiming that Kepler doesn't and the power usage of 1536 CUDA cores that still have hot-clocking would be through the roof EVEN on the 28nm node. Then we see it has much less memory bandwidth than the 7970. The picture also has no defining features to tell us anything about the card save for it having a fan, being black, and it has Nvidia on it. For all we know, it's some old card. Nothing on the card implicates otherwise.
 

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Everyone knows FXAA or Ati's version morphologhal AA is a better performing one than traditional Anti aliasing like MSAA and SSAA. FXAA may be able to offer 3 times the performance MSAA, then what about Graphic quality. Graphics quality is a lot lower in FXAA anti aliasing . Everything get blurred and lacks detail. So low quality graphics = 3 times performance.
 

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Everyone knows FXAA or Ati's version morphologhal AA is a better performing one than traditional Anti aliasing like MSAA and SSAA. FXAA may be able to offer 3 times the performance MSAA, then what about Graphic quality. Graphics quality is a lot lower in FXAA anti aliasing . Everything get blurred and lacks detail. So low quality graphics = 3 times performance.
 

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[citation][nom]maxinexus[/nom]If all the rumors are true(GTX680 with~40% higher performance than 7970 and 670 with 20% over 7970)[/citation]
Where'd you hear that? All the rumors I've seen suggest gk104 will perform in the same area as the HD7970. Sounds like you're just trying to insight AMD fanboy backlash when the GTX680 under-performs these fabricated performance predictions...
 

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I'd take blurriness over jaggies any day..
 
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