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The GK110 chip is rumored to have 50% more CUDA cores than the 680, be coming out in Q3 2012, and labeled the GTX 685. This would be a single-GPU card. There is also the possibility of a dual GK110 or "GTX 695". It looks like GK110 will exist and will be better than the 680 but beyond that everything else is just rumour.
 
I would have thought the dual card would be 2X GK104 to be honest just makes more sense. Its already faster than the AMD top single card offering, so 2X that should outperform the 2X AMD card. Lower power as well as being designed to game while the GK110 is meant to be more compute orientated. It GK110 should come out noticably faster than the GK104 but I just don't think its viable as a X2 chip.


Mactronix :)
 

The GTX 690 is supposed to be 2x GK104, which we should see right about a week or two after the 7990 comes out. There may also be an additional dual GPU based on big daddy GK110, but I haven't heard of that one yet.

If they can make a GTX 590 out of two GF110's, then a 2x GK110 is absolutely possible.
 



Ah! I think I saw a article on that one just a few minutes ago, something like a possilble September release. Over the summer would be nice though. But I have to say; Firewood's link for the twin frozr III 680 made me salivate :)

I'm thinking of going all in....SLI 680s or SLI GK110's :)
 

Im thinking of buying the GTX 680 twin frozr or a GTX 685 not sure yet. Since I want to buy the card somewhere around May
 
Doubling the power of 2 680s puts a dual card at more than what can currently be done
If big K is larger, it will only need more power, and make such a dual card not worth the time.
A duo 680, with a few changes is very doable, and will be a great card, and it will be interesting as to who, red or green wants to push the power issue for top honors
 



I would expect it within 5-10minutes in my hand when I click "buy" 😀
 
Just out of interest why do they release a dual card instead of a card with double the cores, memory etc. Would this not perform better or is it just to small a market to do an extra card for?
 
The 680s are amazing yes!..
but, I cant accept the 2gb Vram limitation, and yes I say limitation.
yeah I know "2gb is fine and dandy cause no current games ever use more than 1.9gb at 1080p etc etc etc" ...
BUT, 2gb is not enough for future proof reassurance honestly, games are almost maxing out the 2gb limit as is, and give it 2 years, maybe even 1 year, and they'll well breach those 2gbs.

and not to mention SLI future proofing,
I mean if you wanna plug in 2 or even 3 extra 680 into your system down the road sometime for that extra power, well shame, cause this 2gb is gonna bottleneck the sheep out of any game released in the future, and a lot of that extra processing power from 2way, 3way, and especially 4 way SLI will go to waste.

anyway :)
The reason for this long winded comment it to vent some of my frustration while I wait for the 4gb cards to be released.

And that's when the 680 will really be amazing!
 

+1. I hope MSI will come with a GTX 680 Twin Frozr 4GB 😛
 

MAYBE, maybe! I hope so :) - I really hope they won't make them too pricey. Maybe like 50 euro's on top of the normal gtx 680 twin frozr 2gb
 
Does anyone have any confirmed info about 685GTX (GK110)? Will it be released as 685GTX, single GPU video card, or will it be 690GTX dual-gpu card?
 


It sure is great to know that AMD could have cut the prices a long time ago, but didn't because the Nvidia cards weren't in stock and customers would still pay $549+ for a "next gen" card. That certainly is terrific customer service right there! Of course it's a business decision, but it just rubs me the wrong way that they would hang customers out to dry like that, knowing they were going to lower the price anyway. At least give people a rebate or something to show that they actually appreciate them spending their money on a product that is 10% more expensive than the competition, and yet is out-performed by it.
 
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