Kepler news and discussion

[darksalvatore]

seems like GTX 660 will be weaker then gtx 580 ....

 

[Guest]

the only waste last night was watching the 76s celtics game. .UFC was a lot better. that 6'11" norweigan putting an arm bar on that cat 1:43 into the first round was phenomenal! too bad i fell asleep after that 🙁

 

[bawchicawawa]

Good to see you again captain obvious. Of course CPU is irrelevant at triple screen resolutions.

Not everyone who buys 680 SLI buys it to play on ultra high resolutions, and for single screen gaming, an AMD CPU is a bad idea paired with 680 SLI.

Can you show me 1 person that bought sli 680's and only plays on 1 plain 1920 x 1080 monitor?

 

[davemaster84]

Can you show me 1 person that bought sli 680's and only plays on 1 plain 1920 x 1080 monitor?

Gimme 1 month and I'll show you 1

 

[bawchicawawa]

Gimme 1 month and I'll show you 1

might as well buy sli 670s and run triple monitor. (assuming said person already has 1 monitor and was willing to spend 40-80$ for 2 more screens compared to the price of sli 680's)

 

[-Jackson]

Can you show me 1 person that bought sli 680's and only plays on 1 plain 1920 x 1080 monitor?

Originally, that was my plan. Now I'm going to go 670s in SLI, but I'll be overclocking them so I guess you could count me? :lol:

Though I am yet to buy the 2nd 670, out of money 🙁

 

[davemaster84]

Originally, that was my plan. Now I'm going to go 670s in SLI, but I'll be overclocking them so I guess you could count me? :lol:

Though I am yet to buy the 2nd 670, out of money 🙁

At least you only need the card, I need another 680 and a new psu. I think I'll go for the coolermaster 850wsp

 

[17seconds]

Here's some more about that PCIe 3 vs 2 issue:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/850-1/pci-express-3-0-impact-on-performance.html

 

[bawchicawawa]

At least you only need the card, I need another 680 and a new psu. I think I'll go for the coolermaster 850wsp

Are you guys trolling? Are both of you seriously getting sli 670/680s to play on 1 1920 x 1080? No 3d, no higher res monitors, no triple screen... You literally wont see the difference between 1 670/680 and 2 670/680s when it comes to 1 1920 x 1080 monitor....

 

[davemaster84]

I agree with you, there's no point in getting a pci e 3.0 atm but this whole discussion started because I pointed the fact that Intel is way more expensive, even Tom's hardware in a review recommended the 8150 + 990fx boards since they calculated the price would get as far as $1000 by trying to get a board with the same slots (guess they were thinking about the ud7 from gigabyte) in an intel IB platform, Intel is way too expensive and it is gonna get even more pricey with AMD out of the high range set ups.

 

[davemaster84]

Lets compare unigine haven 3.0 benchmarks, your single intel set up vs my 955 amd rig, just default settings. I will upload my results tonight when I get home. Remember no GPU OC, and btw there is no way an 8150 will get housed by a 2500k, the i5 is almost the same than the 8150, but the zambezi beats it sometimes, as for the i7 of course it is supperior.

 

[davemaster84]

Yeah I posted my results there if you wanna check, sorry I forgot about it.

 

[bardacuda]

btw there is no way an 8150 will get housed by a 2500k, the i5 is almost the same than the 8150, but the zambezi beats it sometimes

Can I have some of what he's having? That's some good stuff!

No but seriously though that only happens in a few highly threaded apps at stock clocks. We are talking games here....not programs fully optimized for 8 parallel threads.

 

[-Jackson]

At least you only need the card, I need another 680 and a new psu. I think I'll go for the coolermaster 850wsp

Actually I'm in need of another PSU as well, since my current (no pun intended) one is half-modular and starting to become a pain with all the unecessary cables..and a little more power couldn't hurt. 😛

 

[davemaster84]

Can I have some of what he's having? That's some good stuff!

No but seriously though that only happens in a few highly threaded apps at stock clocks. We are talking games here....not programs fully optimized for 8 parallel threads.

The AMD 8150 gets the same fps than the 2500k and even the 2600k in games like crysis2, alien vs predator, battlefield's and a lot lot more. The only game I saw a serious loss compared to the i5 - i7 was at f1 2011. So yet all depends

 

[-Jackson]

Are you guys trolling? Are both of you seriously getting sli 670/680s to play on 1 1920 x 1080? No 3d, no higher res monitors, no triple screen... You literally wont see the difference between 1 670/680 and 2 670/680s when it comes to 1 1920 x 1080 monitor....

Well at least I'll be prepared for Crysis 3 next year :lol:
No but in all seriousness, I know it may sound a bit absurd, but I really like the look of watercooled SLI cards

As you may have deduced, yeah, I'm going to be building a loop too, but that's a completely different topic 😉

 

[-Jackson]

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic..

 

[-Jackson]

Sorry 😛 I just interpreted it as sarcasm since your statement just trailed off..

 

[Anik8]

July-August for 660 ti and non ti
http://uk.hardware.info/news/27984/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-available-in-july-or-august

 

[darksalvatore]

660TI will be slower then 580 ;/

Guys GTX 670 FTW gone from amazone ;/ ??? i wanted to buy that card ;///////

 

[Anik8]

I'm guessing it can be on par with a 580 citing the little performance difference when 384 cores are cut off from a gk104.
The only thing that will place the 660 ti behind the 670 by some adequate margin is cutting off some bandwidth.Which they are doing but a 580 is much behind the 670 as well.

 

[vdr369]

I just wish a $100 kepler gpu with best in class performance.

 

[mactronix]

I'm guessing it can be on par with a 580 citing the little performance difference when 384 cores are cut off from a gk104.
The only thing that will place the 660 ti behind the 670 by some adequate margin is cutting off some bandwidth.Which they are doing but a 580 is much behind the 670 as well.

A lot of it depends if its a GK104 or a GK106. There is defiantly room for a third GK104 based card but that decision will revolve around yields etc.
A GK106 should come out ball park 570 in performance but that could be adjusted up or down depending on clocks.

Mactronix

 

[Anik8]

A lot of it depends if its a GK104 or a GK106. There is defiantly room for a third GK104 based card but that decision will revolve around yields etc.
A GK106 should come out ball park 570 in performance but that could be adjusted up or down depending on clocks.

Mactronix

As I feel, the 660 ti will be gk104(1152)
and the non ti will be gk106(768)

I feel so because, cutting the gk104 for the 3rd consecutive time for the non ti seems a bit too much and the resultant might give rise to 'gtx 465' like fiasco.Instead a gk106 will be shorter a die with all smx-s enabled and hence provide better yields. 😉

 

[darksalvatore]

hm .... but maybe 660Ti matches 580 and non TI matches 570 .... if 660Ti will cost 300$ ..it will be best bang for buck .... even better then 670 ....