Kepler news and discussion

[saint19]

As all of you guys saw, the original thread was closed for a simple reason: Kepler isn't more a rumor.

We create this thread for all the news, discussions and related things about the new nVidia line (Kepler) and the GTX 680 model that's currently on the market. As always, keep in mind the rules of the forum, not personal attacks and moderated language.

Enjoy it!

 

[Rockdpm]

Thanks Buddy, As you all know....Kepler is now out with quite a few in the series. but the GTX 680 is the first Desktop GPU on the market. I and several others requested Toms Hardware make another thread for Further discussion on Kepler. So feel free everyone to post the latest info so others can stay up to date!. and please try to keep this one clean. I know last time we had about 5 pages worth out of 36 with Members Cussing eachother. Try to keep it clean Please!

And GO!

 

[xtremegamer2da-max]

anybody know when the evga 680 classified will come out???

 

[Rockdpm]

Well as of right now, i don't think anyone know what they look like. Hence the name Classified. but i do have a link for their other models designs. which can be viewed at EVGA's website

http://www.evga.com/articles/00669/

Also their are selling

A high flow bracket : http://www.evga.com/articles/00672/

 

[Rockdpm]

at the end of the Kepler thread I felt like I was the doorman @ Newegg or something that was directing traffic
straight to the nVidia section....

Shoot i felt like i just spend the whole weekend at a Lan Party and it was time to pack up and go home

 

[Rockdpm]

anybody know when the evga 680 classified will come out???

Idk when but i would like to point out....they have added more display ports. If everyone would turn their attention to that first link i posted.....it had 5 different display ports on one card...... Just look at the Hyrdo copper card and do 360 view

 

[saint19]

Those EVGA models will be released soon.

 

[Rockdpm]

Those EVGA models will be released soon.

Just not soon enough

 

[de5_Roy]

anyone else think gtx 680 is a bit too costly for a gfx card with 2gb vram? power use would go up with another gb of 6 ghz gddr5.. may be to 7970 level....
yes you get a more powerful gpu, gaming performance and what not (i just finished at, guru3d and tpu articles. phew!) but it'd be sorta overkill for a single 1080p resolution and in multi display setups it'd benefit from more vram. the gpu'd need more vram in vram bound games like bf3... and crysis and skyrim too..?
amd can easily release 2 gb 7900 cards and 1 gb 7800 cards at low prices...
btw, the at article was very educational but mind-numbingly long. 😛

 

[Rockdpm]

Well its gonna have a 4gb memory and also the Power Phasing change is when they are taking most of the reference designed off the market
You know how MSI and ASUS did.

I think its supposed to 8+6 Power designs

 

[-Fran-]

Well, I don't know if at high resolutions the VRAM was causing the little "lag" in the 680, but slapping 4GB in it, might not be useful without more bits, since the bandwidth won't go up unless they get faster modules... Kinda like the thing we say with the 6950.

I'd just wait for GK110 for monster setups/resolutions, since it should have more bandwidth or go with the 7970 for now.

That's my guesstimation, though.

Cheers!

 

[saint19]

anyone else think gtx 680 is a bit too costly for a gfx card with 2gb vram? power use would go up with another gb of 6 ghz gddr5.. may be to 7970 level....
yes you get a more powerful gpu, gaming performance and what not (i just finished at, guru3d and tpu articles. phew!) but it'd be sorta overkill for a single 1080p resolution and in multi display setups it'd benefit from more vram. the gpu'd need more vram in vram bound games like bf3... and crysis and skyrim too..?
amd can easily release 2 gb 7900 cards and 1 gb 7800 cards at low prices...
btw, the at article was very educational but mind-numbingly long. 😛

That's correct, but at the same clocks 1GB or 2GB doesn't make any difference compared with that GTX 680 in performance.

 

[Rockdpm]

Well EVGA is only gonna have two or 3 variants with 4GB of Vram so....most are gonna be running 2GB.. but still 256 bit is plenty i think. i mean they made GTX 560 ti's running 2GB of vram running with only a 256 bit. plus we must remember this is mostly likely only their top mid range card.....so...what else to be expected, we don't know yet. everyone right now at NVIDIA is celebrating that they just released a Monster card that sold out within 30 mintues

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Anyone as suspicious as I am in the major differences between the original leaked specs and pricing on the 680 versus what we saw yesterday ? Meybe its my suspicious nature but I have this niggling itch in the back of my mind that' saying the 680 released yesterday was originally slated to be the 660 Ti or 670 . Throw in the break from tradition in releasing the kingpin first ... the talk about upcoming "big kepler" in the reviews ....

Also there' normally a 2 month wait between "Revision A" or reference hardware and the "Revision C" stuff I like to buy after the manufacturers get the non-reference designs tweaked. Therefore I'm also wondering what kind of a crimp the boost technology will place on the time table for these new designs as they deal with the learning curve associated therewith.

 

[toneekay]

Supsup!

 

[Rockdpm]

Very true jack. If this is true that there may only be a 650 and a 660 and a 680 for mid range then.....i guess the 680 will be what i have to get

 

[17seconds]

Anyone as suspicious as I am in the major differences between the original leaked specs and pricing on the 680 versus what we saw yesterday ? Meybe its my suspicious nature but I have this niggling itch in the back of my mind that' saying the 680 released yesterday was originally slated to be the 660 Ti or 670 . Throw in the break from tradition in releasing the kingpin first ... the talk about upcoming "big kepler" in the reviews ....

Not to mention this:

http://www.techpowerup.com/162901/Did-NVIDIA-Originally-Intend-to-Call-GTX-680-as-GTX-670-Ti-.html

 

[voodooking]

Ivy Bridge + Kepler question: Is there anything new in this design that will make it run better with the new Ivy Bridge CPU's and motherboards over the Sandy Bridge ones?

Thanks, Jim

 

[thegameon]

gtx 680 looks impressive with everything it came with but i got a question. first of all im not gona get a new mother board and a cpu for this card so i wanted to know if this card (pci 3.0) works on pci 2.0 motherboard if it does then what would be the performance difference compare to 3.0 motherboards (for example u can say 10 fps lower or higher in games) i have i5 750 oc 3.8g with 8gb 1600mhz vengance ram and gtx 570 so should i get this card or sli the 570 and go for 2 more years to get a completly different system and im a single monitor gamer so i dont need much of vram

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea, PCI Express 3.0!

 

[Rockdpm]

I really hope to see a GTX 670 ti, at the price of 350$ that would butter me up!

 

[saint19]

I really hope to see a GTX 670 ti, at the price of 350$ that would butter me up!

And you will see it....

 

[de5_Roy]

if games don't push, the pcie 3.0 bw won't be used. i read reviews with both pcie 2.0 (tpu and guru3d) and 3.0 (tom's and at) test rigs, the gaming performance looked similar to me.
right now servers and gpu computing uses the huge bw pcie 3.0 provides. games will take more time.
[strike]however.....
pcie 3.0
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5699/45150.png
http://media.bestofmicro.com/H/L/331113/original/bf3-2560.png
pcie 2.0
http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_680/images/bf3_2560_1600.gif
http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=37584
for some reason at's bench gets more fps. looks like 2560x1600 benefits from pcie 3.0. hmm... i might have to rethink my opinion on games not utilizing pcie 3.0...[/strike]
i'd like to see how lower end cards like 650ti, 660, 660ti and 670ti perform too.
asus gtx 680 sli review
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_680_SLI/
edit: linked wrong img first. sorry.
edit2: nvm. seems like the reason at's gets more fps because of fxaa unlike msaa in tom's and guru3d benches. fxaa was developed by nvidia. tom's gets similar fps without msaa. it didn't make sense to me until i compared them directly.

 

[Rockdpm]

if games don't push, the pcie 3.0 bw won't be used. i read reviews with both pcie 2.0 (tpu and guru3d) and 3.0 (tom's and at) test rigs, the gaming performance looked similar to me.
right now servers and gpu computing used the huge bw pcie 3.0 provides. games will take more time.
i'd like to see how lower end cards like 650ti, 660, 660ti and 670ti perform too.
asus gtx 680 sli review
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_680_SLI/

Yea Same here

 

[RussK1]

asus gtx 680 sli review
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_680_SLI/
edit: linked wrong img first. sorry.

Not to seem abrasive, but that has to be the worst review in a long time... really no CF for 7870, 7950, 7970, 6990 and no SLI for 570, 580 or 590? The review is worthless and misleading.