Is this really a GTX 680?

[Bob-Richey]

I am caught in the middle of a deal on eBay.

He doesn't have the video cards I bought but will substitute a

GEFORCE GTX 680 2GB DDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-EXPRESS VIDEO CARD

Can a GTX680 have DDR3 RAM?
Can a GTX680 have only one DVI head?

Is this real or did he counterfeit a label?

 

[yanis31]

1 absolutely not,
2 well if the others are hdmi and a few display ports... but probably no as well

 

[bemused_fred]

Did he only give a description? If so, ask them to show pictures and a DXDIAG/GPUz screenshot. Chances are they might have accidentally pressed "3" instead of "5", but don't let them pull a fast one on you.

 

[13thmonkey]

DDR3 could be a typo
and yes it could be single DVI but unlikely
get a model number off him

 

[yanis31]

every card has it's model number .. (example - GV-N770OC-2GD) type that into google and look at the card on the manufacturers website...

 

[Bob-Richey]

 

[Brantyn Gerik]

This is absolutely not a 680. The 680 ha gddr5 ram, pci 3.0, much higher clocks ect. Report this seller immediatly

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130768 show the true specs for the 780

 

[Bob-Richey]

Thanks for the fast, considerate and expert answers.
I have cancelled the transaction and will report the seller if I see he is trying to continue to sell this item as a GTX680.
The best answer to my question turns out to be: just ask on http://www.tomshardware.com
You guys rock!
Bob

 

[t21]

680 is only GDDR5 did the Chinese went from fake cell phones copyright to gpu copyright lol those Chinese sellers counterfeit business

 

[13thmonkey]

Thanks for the fast, considerate and expert answers.
I have cancelled the transaction and will report the seller if I see he is trying to continue to sell this item as a GTX680.
The best answer to my question turns out to be: just ask on http://www.tomshardware.com
You guys rock!
Bob

 

[yanis31]

by the way i actually have seen made in china cards that come with ddr3 even tho the model in question never does....
but we're talking like gtx460 or something like that ... 680? - that would be a new achievement haha
i tried to find any cut down gk104 chip low end graphics card with specs as low as those in the screenshot and failed...
pixel fillrate and bus width seem somewhat convincing on that thing but everything else is as low as the lowest cards these days and even lower...
if it actually exists it's complete garbage... Subvendor: Undefined (0000) - yeah that sounds convincig (it is where the manufacturer goes)
- it's some kinda chinese fake that perhaps actually has a decent gpu on it but everything else is cut down and will have below-poor performance...

 

[rolandzhang3]

It's been a while since a high end card used GDDR3, so that would give it away at an instant

I've seen many of those fake cards around on online chinese sites, they just fiddled around (through BIOS flash and etc.) and changed the name of older cards from the 8000/9000 series and try to pass them off as current generation cards

An example of how they do things would be to get a Geforce 210 and later try to sell it off as a GTS 250, amusing stuff for sure

You can tell from the unified shader count/puny memory clock and texture/pixel fillrate that it's a lower-middle end card from those older series of cards, so that card by my estimate would probably be on the lines of a 8800/9800 at the most

An amusing example of a card I've seen from similar shady retailers included a box which said "Radeon Nvidia"

Here it is for the lols, bottom line is to check the GPU-Z images carefully (and compare them to GPU-Z snapshots of the real card which can be found on the net easily), the name of the card may have changed, but its underlying performance never will