Kepler news and discussion

[Haserath]

I've heard AMD is planning on releasing their GHZ edition 7970 to counter Nvidia; they also said 1.25Ghz was easily attainable now that yields have improved. Wonder if they'll be doing that any time soon, since the 670 is matching the stock 7970 blow for blow.

The 670 was also gimped for overclocking compared to the 680, so at least the 680 owners can get slightly higher clocks from their cards. The extra shaders also help in some games. The 680 carries a premium just like the 580 did at stock.

I'd like to see an OC roundup with vanilla 680/70&7970/50. With several models of each to show variability and what you can expect on average.

 

[esrever]

670 looks like the card to get right now. Also seems to have good volume, I'd like to see some custom PCBs tho, the nvidia one just looks cramped and cheap.

I would think there will be price drops with the launch of the ghz editions.

 

[-Jackson]

I feel you man... Saw a 690 for $1600 AUD, whichd be about the same in USD

Actually, the Australian Dollar is currently worth more than USD.

 

[-Jackson]

Ugh, knew it. EVGA 2gb reference models are going for $500 each. I hate this market 🙁

 

[Anik8]

Rite now in India the price difference between a 680 and a 670 is only $60

 

[as33]

consider ur self lucky i wont see a 670 in my country for a few months at least >> gotta sell all that last gen crap at high price

seriously tho im getting pissed i wanted to make a new rig god knows my old one is just uber old just to find out that all the GPUs are foken reference cooled and premium priced and late i mean who in the right mind would buy a last gen card at last gen prices

comedy starts when i think about how i planed to w8 for ivy / kepler / southern islands (still w8ing for a non reference card) !!! there is only one store that has southern and its all reference and at the starting prices not the new cut ones and a bit more on top of it ... and ofc no kepler to be seen

hard to be a enthusiast if ur country doesn't let u ... don't let me start about the supper retarded ram getting enraged just buy thinking about it

 

[Rockdpm]

The reason we must wait for 660 ti is because they have to start designing architecture for that chip. the GK 106 i believe its called. NVIDIA will release it. I believe its worth a wait if your in the market

 

[renz496]

based on the rumor that i heard so far the upcoming 660 ti are still based on GK104 as well. i haven't heard much about GK106 and some people believe nvidia doesn't have a chip called GK106 at all because of lack of rumor and 'leak' information about the chip. we will know the truth when 660 and 650 comes out later this year.

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea what renz said.

 

[davemaster84]

In my country stores usually overprice mid end cards, I already checked and the reference 670 is around $450 while the 680 is at an stable $500, so it wont change much things here

 

[Rockdpm]

nah prices of what you currently see them... won't change much

 

[mactronix]

Having read that the chip makers have reported record profits I have put 2+2 together and decided that they pretty much cant do that without selling chips so some ah heck has them. They were saying most of the sales were 28nm so I reckon some stock piling may well have been going on.

Mactronix

 

[17seconds]

To me, it seems clear that they have been having troubles producing fully functional GTX 680 chips, and as a result ended up with a bunch of partially disabled chips that are going into 670's.

On another note, I have been thinking about that clock for clock "advantage" that the 7970 supposed enjoyed over the GTX 680. Now we have a lower clocked card with fewer cores beating out/matching a 7970. I'm not sure what to make of it.

 

[Rockdpm]

omg, would everyone shut up about this "Clock for Clock" bull. This card does this, and the other does just as good. No need to break out the tape measure and fine tune every thing

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea and i could use my Bulldozer CPU and itd be good as a 3930k. but I would hope one would know... thats not true by even .1%

 

[17seconds]

Hot clocks for Fermi apparently helped the OC scaling quite a bit. 2x shader vs. core for Fermi, but 1x shader vs core for Kepler.

 

[Rockdpm]

omg, here we go again.....

 

[alterleaf]

I noticed the demand for that Gigabyte 670 with the full PCB, but then I started looking at other Gigabyte cards and every single one I randomly clicked on that looked like someone would want to game with has one star reviews screaming RMA and "It doesn't work".

Now I know you take newegg reviews with a lot of salt but anything with Gigabyte on it has a consistant 1 star going on as of late. I only looked on the Nvidia side of things, so don't quote me for the AMD cards.

If I wanted to go for it, I'm assuming EVGA right now? But I love the 480, I just need more case fans for it.

Edit: Unless everyone's just too dumb to use a Gigabyte card.

 

[davemaster84]

Been thinking about dropping my 480's for a 670....
Yes i will lose performance, but i will get a lower eleccy bill 😛

Hey Recoon dude I would advise you to get a 680 instead a 670, Why? Well you already have an experience with the 480's, they were branded as hot - energy hunger beats and they were outperformered by a gtx 460 sli, but look how they performed to you, you are still in the move after these years. But since I know you'd rather listen to facts, here are some:

1. My stock 680 reaches a clock speed of 1100 without overclock (using the gpu boost), if I overclock it just a bit it easily goes as far as 1260 (without pushing it), the temps stay below 80c

2. Having more cuda cores maybe are loocking so much now, but as soon as games start using new graphics engines like unreal 4

3. Even getting the 670 OC version, you will be forced to overclock it forever! With a 680 you wont need to OC because all games run above 60fps

4. The 680 is still the fastest single gpu card in the world

Anyway whatever your choice is, good luck with it mate.

 

[Rockdpm]

While your marketing pitch is superb, the 670 can currently when overclocked to 1400mhz it beats a 680

 

[-Jackson]

Regardless of how good a 680 is, you cannot be in your right mind to pick a 680 over a 670, especially if the 670 is $100 LESS than the 680.

 

[davemaster84]

Owners report that the 670 reaches between 1250 to 1300, no one has gotten it more than 1400 at least in a operative way (like my phenom 955 , I can boot windows 7 on 4.1 but beyond 3.9 applications start to fail). An stock 680 reaches 1300 kinda easily, do to temperatures I would say an OC version of the 680 can reach 1400. About price yeah, yeat all depends on your budget, although in my country the difference is only $50

 

[dragonsamus]

I've been thinking of returning my EVGA 680 for a non reference 670 like the Gigabyte one with the three fans.

What version of the 670 is looking like the best one? My local Fry's Electronics had the reference MSI for $399.99. I really want the Gigabyte one though.

 

[renz496]

^ it is better to keep up your 680 if there is nothing wrong with it

 

[mactronix]

With the availability of the 680 as it is in some country's I would sell it and get the 670.

Mactronix