Kepler news and discussion

Page 35 - Seeking answers? Join the Tom's Hardware community: where nearly two million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Status
Not open for further replies.
That picture has made its rounds, but from everything I've read it's a photoshop edit of a GTX 460 2WIN. While it's impossible to really say, why would anyone post such a blur of a picture if there isn't something to hide.
 

That review has some pretty strong criticism for Crossfire:

"Therefore, in summary, on the whole GTX 680 3-Way SLI provided the best actual experience gaming. Framerate does not tell all, and it often doesn't show you how a game feels when you are playing it. We have said it before, and we'll say it again, SLI feels better than CrossFireX, it feels smoother, and is more fluid. With CrossFireX you have to achieve higher framerates in order for it to feel as smooth as SLI does."

"Driver Woes for AMD Again
We've given AMD a hard time in the past about driver support, deservedly so. This is unfortunately for AMD another moment we need to bring the lacking driver support to our readers’ attention."

"By the time this is fixed hopefully in Catalyst 12.5 in May, it will be five months from the release of the AMD Radeon HD 7970. That is nearly half a year, or half the lifetime of the new GPU. It's approaching upon the time you usually see product refreshes. That is a rather long and frustrating time for not having functionality support except with your earliest possible Release Candidate driver."

"We've generally been disappointed in CrossFireX support this generation, and we know our readers have too. It prompted us early on to write an editorial on the issue because we know our readers and enthusiast gamers out there are having these same issues and are quite frustrated with it. This is yet one more issue to throw into the bucket, and the bucket is getting rather full. We hope this issue gets fixed soon, but we are not surprised to see people jumping ship to NVIDIA because of AMD driver issues. More and more these topics are posted in our forums, and we can't blame them. NVIDIA clearly has a leg up on SLI and NV Surround support. Combine that with the smoothness and fluidity difference between SLI and CrossFireX, it makes selling CrossFireX or Tri-Fire plus Eyefinity a hard sell."
 
In regards to the drivers of the new generation cards, I've used the single card setups of the HD7950 and HD7970 and they work absolutely fantastic! That said, AMD has been behind in driver development for some time. Unfortunately for them, how fast a card operates isn't the whole battle. For most people, Crossfire isn't a common configuration. For those of us that do love multiple GPU's, reading all this has to be a let down and a deterrence from going with AMD.

I haven't got my hands on a GTX 680 yet, but, from using the beta 301.24 drivers, I can 100% say that the Nvidia drivers are smooth as silk in both single and SLI configurations.
 
Sorry bro, i don't know what happened. I guess i just snapped. But just saying, everyone i know that has 480's because they are so cheap are talking about how their the best thing ever. And i just have to explain to them that not everyone can afford a 1500 watt power supply to run 4 or a 950-1000 to run 2.
 
Yea the Dev team has stepped up their game, I guess because before BF3 they hadn't been updating drivers as often but now they have stepped it up. Even giving us users advanced toops like Adaptive vsync when it was expect to be added into a driver in the coming months
 
Hey, AMD drivers on my 4890 are flawless... After 4 years... Ehm... Yeah!

I wanted to do some XFire on this baby, but I can't find any 4890 around (in my country). Maybe I'll just jump into a 680 or a cheap 7970.

Cheers! XD
 
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-670-gk104335a2-specifications-performance-detailed/

Finally got some specs on the 670. At $400 it's still quite pricey.
 

Thats my card right there
 
i think 400 is a little high, considering it uses gk104's that are still (murphy's law) going to be a rarity. you wont see those for under ~$550 here in australia. the 680's here are 730 for a evga superclocked.... unbeleivable..
 


yeah there is a live link. that page with the countdown will priovide a live stream for it.
and the crowbar, heres my thoughts.

the 590 came in an ammo box right? so i bet they'll do some gimmick with the 690 aswell. i think the 690 will come in like some sort of wooden box you have to pry open with the crowbar.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom