Nvidia 'Kepler' GeForce GTX 680 Specifications Leaked

[fuzznarf]

[citation][nom]Guld80[/nom]The average performance advantage is only around 10%, but Nvidia used the old trick of not setting the baseline to zero... That being said, a 10% advantage is still nice, although a 7970 OC to 1GHz can probably match that, and most can actually be OC to 1.1GHz without any trouble. So for me it looks like a draw, which is not that good for Nvidia as there 4 months behind...[/citation]

10% advantage is nice. but at what price. I'd be willing to bet power consumption is more than 10% higher. all in all, NVidia cards have a habit of being around 300w maxed. i predict this will be the same compared to ~200w for 7970.

 

[fuzznarf]

[citation][nom]atikkur[/nom]remember, the architecture is different than gtx580. it derived from gtx560ti. the real keppler may expected in later this year, which has same architecture (or better) as gtx580.[/citation]

yes, NVidia couldnt get the real 680 working... so they just renamed the 670ti a 680.
560ti --> 680
580 --> broken for now hopefully it gets fixed and realeased as 685

 

[sicom]

Tom's, earn my respect and do OC benchmark comparisons of Kepler to AMD cards. I doubt these Kepler cards are going to have nearly the same headroom has AMD's 7's.

 

[atikkur]

[citation][nom]fuzznarf[/nom]yes, NVidia couldnt get the real 680 working... so they just renamed the 670ti a 680. 560ti --> 680580 --> broken for now hopefully it gets fixed and realeased as 685[/citation]

i dont think it broken, maybe its just too powerful to build for now . or they dont have enough wafer to build it... so, better to save for last fight.

 

[gaborbarla]

Thats what I call barchart basterdisation. So this means it is basically 10% faster than a 7970 but of course it is hard to belive these benchmarks at this point.

 

[SkateZilla]

Funny how that Chart shows the 7970 at the same Frames/PerSecond Cap for Every title,

and every title on that list has an nVidia Logo on the Box.

kepler is not 3x as powerful, FXAA is just that much faster.

 

[srgess]

i bet the driver are not optimized yet so yeeah it will def beat amd. Sure you can overclock amd to match it but then overclock nvidia to beat it. Stop thinking stupid just to give amd advantage..Nvidia win just get over it....

 

[ubercake]

Looks like you hardcore Civ V players are going to want to stick with AMD!

 

[atikkur]

[citation][nom]SkateZilla[/nom]Funny how that Chart shows the 7970 at the same Frames/PerSecond Cap for Every title,and every title on that list has an nVidia Logo on the Box.kepler is not 3x as powerful, FXAA is just that much faster.[/citation]

it's comparison chart, not fps chart. so 7970 here is at baseline 100% performace, while 680 at relatives to 7970 performance.. so, it was funny you...

 

[ubercake]

[citation][nom]SkateZilla[/nom]Funny how that Chart shows the 7970 at the same Frames/PerSecond Cap for Every title,and every title on that list has an nVidia Logo on the Box.kepler is not 3x as powerful, FXAA is just that much faster.[/citation]
It's comparing performance based on a percentage, not FPS. This explains the 7970 at the same bar max (1.0) for each game.

The chart would seem less impressive if it extended down to 0, but the argument wouldn't seem as strong (longer bars are better than shorter, right?). Though it still shows the Nvidia cards performance will exceed that of the AMD card (with the exception of Civ V) which is what we've become accustomed to over the last 5+ years.

 

[kairotic]

What a horrible graph. VERY misleading.

 

[Pinhedd]

It's comparing performance based on a percentage, not FPS. This explains the 7970 at the same bar max (1.0) for each game.

The chart would seem less impressive if it extended down to 0, but the argument wouldn't seem as strong (longer bars are better than shorter, right?). Though it still shows the Nvidia cards performance will exceed that of the AMD card (with the exception of Civ V) which is what we've become accustomed to over the last 5+ years.

I'm going to wait until this card is actually announced, released and benchmarked. Both NVidia and AMD have a long history of slanting benchmarks in their favor. If those benchmarks are using MSAA on the AMD cards and FXAA on the NVidia cards then naturally NVidia is going to have a performance advantage while AMD has a visual quality advantage

 

[eklipz330]

$500? doubt it. try $650. nvidia and amd have both been stacking their gpu prices on their previous generations; this is way too anticompetitive. we'll see gpu prices about and beyond $800 in no time once again.

BUT, if these charts are true and nvidia does price it at $500, the 7970 would take a huge plunge. this would benefit us all, and that is what SHOULD happen.

 

[marraco]

The average performance advantage is only around 10%, but Nvidia used the old trick of not setting the baseline to zero... That being said, a 10% advantage is still nice, although a 7970 OC to 1GHz can probably match that, and most can actually be OC to 1.1GHz without any trouble. So for me it looks like a draw, which is not that good for Nvidia as there 4 months behind...

Here is untricked:

 

[airborne11b]

Nvidia pricing is so on par with amd, how can people say amd is some sort of saint when it comes to pricing? 360 to 400 buck 580 gtxs on newegg, vs cheapest 7870s for 550 bucks. and if charts are anywhere near accurate, and 680 launches at 500 bucks, nvidia is going to dominate price and performance.

 

[billybobser]

I don't need the performance, and I'll happily sit still for 1 year and buy them in the bargain bin.

These show ponys are so horribly named given they're not 680's but 660ti (which would've been rebranded 670ti.)

I can't see where they are going to fit the true 680 and then the eventual dual card gas heater 690.

Very short termist by nVidia.

 

[airborne11b]

And the original graph isn't a trick. It's proper graph making. The remade graph posted above starting at 0 is sloppy and looks terrible, while saying the exact same thing.

 

[beans4you]

cool card, lots of debate. People might be able to learn something wading through all this but what I keep seeing is waiting, waiting, waiting! I'm rocking a gtx480, still plays games fine. I'm going to get a 690 or whatever the 110 will be to solidify some fps, I've yet to need an upgrade but this lower power usage could be the key to my sli.. oh lookie the 296.10 drivers are out

 

[kdawgmaster]

I like how everyone goes on these graphs, i remember the last time they did this with the GTX580 against the 6970 it was about half of the projected performance.

 

[airborne11b]

[citation][nom]sicom[/nom]Tom's, earn my respect and do OC benchmark comparisons of Kepler to AMD cards. I doubt these Kepler cards are going to have nearly the same headroom has AMD's 7's.[/citation]

In the end, benchmarks are going to be subjective, FXAA vs MSAA, nvidia preferred games vs AMD preferred games, etc. Even if you can crank up the 7000s to produce a few more FPS then OCed nvidia 600s, Nvidia will still have price advantage, as these are slated to release at $499 range and 7000s are currently at $550 for the "cheap" ones.

Not to mention 3D vision 2, cuda, and other nice Nvidia features that AMD doesn't have.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]colson79[/nom]I hope it is this fast but I'm not going to get excited until a see a 3rd party review. I have a feeling this chart is being skewed with some AA tricky. May be faster running AA but not look as good.[/citation]Yeah the chart doesn't tell us anything about IQ. Not do we know actual real-world power draw. Gonna have to wait for the THG full review!

 

[shin0bi272]

http://videocardz.com/31010/geforce-gtx-680-benchmark-leaks-out-leaves-hd-7970-behind


"NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround

GeForce GTX 680 has a support for operations on four monitors simultaneously. Since card has four outputs for displaying devices (HDMI, DisplayPort and two DVI-DL) it is possible to connect devices to all of them, and operate on multiple displays at once. This setting has a support of 3D Vision Surround technology. Every gamer that has heard of 3D Vision from NVIDIA will understand how interesting this option can be. Connecting three of four displays and play on them with stereoscopic 3D support may be quite a fun"

 

[nottinmatterz_2day]

Any word on whether or not Adobe is working with NVIDIA closely to support Mercury playback engine with the new GeForce 600 Series cards like this GTX 680?

 

[aravind4297]

nVidia's graph trick again. this probably means that the gtx 680 retails at the price of a 590/6990 as it definitely cannot be cheaper than a 7970 for 3 reasons:
1.its (apparently) faster than a 7970
2.the 7970 is already~$600
3.(not for fanboys)its nVidia
wiating for an actual benchmark....

 

[aravind4297]

nvidias like apple.. working with adobe? dont know . they never reveal And theyre real slow....