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Would be easier to build a dp specific card than try to make a graphic card do 1 to 1 dp. The amount of extra circuitry is just not useful in a graphic card.

Even going for 1/2 dp costs a lot of extra transistors which becomes useless in gaming.

I would be surprised if the consumer card gets over 1TFLOP dp for the gk110.
 
2304 cores makes sense.

128 cores per SM. A 1:1 ratio for threads scheduled to cores.
3 SM per GPC.
6 GPC per chip.

As a top of the line, compute driven card, I wouldn't be surprised if it had all of that. The 512-bit memory bus seems slightly overkill though, but Nvidia always seems to have some overkill on their monster cards.
 

Yea thats gonna be the real GTX 680.... Hopefully it will drive the 680 price down (or atleast give it free shipping 😀 )
 
You will notice that we are really only seeing up to about a 15% or close to 17% performance improvement with the overclocked GTX 680 versus a stock GTX 680. That may seem low, especially when you consider the kind of percentages we see in improvement overclocking a Radeon HD 7970. However, the Radeon HD 7970 has a wider overclockable range than the GeForce GTX 680.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/04/04/nvidia_kepler_geforce_gtx_680_overclocking_review/7
Rather redundant?
 
Do you guys think that Nvidia were more aggressive with there stock clocks or AMD were to conservative or is there another reason the 7970 overclocks better. Also is it fair to say if the cards are the same price and you wanted to overclock them to the max there are close to even in performance.
 
AMD was conservative. Considering almost every card hit the CCC overdrive limit on stock voltage from what I read, they are at least 15% under clocked.

7970 launching at 1050 would make for better competition against the 680.

The 680 are a hard tell right now as some sites are getting extreme overclocks while others are getting ok ones. The performance scaling are also somewhat random. Hard to say if they were aggressively clocked.

Im still under the impression both cards end up pretty equal on all metrics when overclocked.
 
Best way is to look at previous cards, and see how they compare.
I think its a little of both, where team green saw higher OCs in the past, and team red less.
This combination makes a head to head top OC a dead heat
 
Does any of this actually matter to the vast majority of end users ? By that I mean does one card noticeably make the difference between playable and not playable when compared to the other card for the majority of game titles within a given scenario, say at high resolution with ultra settings for example, does one camps card offer enough of a discernibly better experience over the other ?
Realistically I believe this will come down to personal preference/brand loyalty at the top end where these cards are sitting for now, while I believe people with no preference/brand loyalty will be better served by the Nvidia card.
Perf/Price will usually decide the mainstream, however if its tight I think Nvidia has the edge on extra features to offer the consumer.

Mactronix :)
 


That thing is going to eat sales of the 680, lol.

I like the specs very much. It's just a little trim of the 680 and it will prolly OC just as well.

No wonder they took so long to even announce it or leak it.

Cheers!
 


Somewhat respectable pricing here. 7950 (or more) performance for the cost of a 7870? This might finally be the catalyst that sparks the long overdue price war with amd.
 

Yea its dumb, first they say April ending now they are confirming may. like what? first they sorta disapoint their fans by release only the 680 at a price point not many people wanted to go with
 
Wow 700 bucks for hydro copper!? I've never used liquid cooling myself, but if you already had a water cooling system, wouldn't it be cheaper to just take the HSF off a $500 air-cooled version and install your own blocks? It does have a +150MHz overclock, but still....40% more money for 11.5% higher clocks? Really?
 
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