Report: Nvidia 700-Series to Release in May; More Specs

[ikaz]

I think the main issue with the 5GB or Vram is that it inflates the price, If you look at the cost of 670. The cheapest 2GB model sell for 370 while the cheapest 4GB sells for $440 so about $70 difference. So if they were to have a 780/titan LE or what you want to call it has a reference model with 2.5 GB for $70-75 cheaper while still having the 5GB model out there I think a lot more people would be happier or at least would consider upgrading.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Great I was waiting on the next series for an upgrade. My GTX 460s are getting a little slow for folding. This will bring older series down in price a little faster.

 

[Jay-Z]

So the 780 is the only one with the GK110? As long as the price stays down I'll be happy.

 

[chipwonder1]

cheaper price and more memory! That's what I like bitches!

 

[rrbronstein]

this remind me of 8800gts/512-9800gtx-gts250 ... If is a based on a cut-down GK110 , it would be nice to unlock it, but as i see the future, nvidia and ati will never allow this anymore.hd6950 really boosted the sales because of this.....Anyway , i will stick to my 7970 ( reference not ghz ed) until things will cool down with some really new gpu to show off from both sides, if is going to take to long il just throw in a second one since the price are getting lower on reference 7970.

LOL dude your funny. You have a 7970, you wont even need to upgrade for at least another year. You already knew refreshes were incoming, even the 8000 series you might not upgrade to, 7970 is still a fairly new card. If you were seriously considering upgrading for such a small generational leap, you either have money to burn or are uninformed.

 

[omnimodis78]

Why the mostly negative reactions to this? Firstly, we all know that nVidia is working on the next-gen architecture, and they are totally transparent about the fact hat the 700-series is based on the Kepler chips, so what's so wrong with nVidia doing a slight "shakeup" to their current model line for those who might now be interested in upgrading from, say, their Fermi cards. Say someone has a 560 but they didn't see much reason for to buy a 660 - now they might see it differently knowing that they're getting a 670 (760 Ti) but for less price than a 670 would have cost. If you already own a 600-series card, of course it wouldn't make much sense to upgrade, but at least it assures solid drivers for us for at another year or so.

 

[ipwn3r456]

FINALLY! Some good news for Nvidia!

 

[alidan]

who needs 5GB of VRAM? The most i've seen is the HD Skyrim pack at 1.5, not even coming close to 5GB. This is intentional bottlenecking at it's finest because they know the guys buying these cards have no idea what they really need and will cream when they see that this card has over twice as much as most any of the last gen cards.

top end cards are not geared for single screen, or even 1080p
they are geared for 1600p and 3-5 (6 depending on how you want the setup) screens

1080p 2gb is enough for all the bells and whistles i believe.
3gb is good enough for a single 1600p
but you want 3-6 monitors 6gb is what you want as a minimum, and the titan (thats basicly what the 5gb card is scaled back a bit) is powerful enough to drive 5 monitors on its own.

 

[Verrin]

who needs 5GB of VRAM? The most i've seen is the HD Skyrim pack at 1.5, not even coming close to 5GB. This is intentional bottlenecking at it's finest because they know the guys buying these cards have no idea what they really need and will cream when they see that this card has over twice as much as most any of the last gen cards.

It's not that difficult to find something that will consume all available VRAM, if you actually take the time to look. Just take something like Crysis 2, put it into a multi-monitor setup with high-resolution textures and with DX11, and be surprised how fast that 5GB gets consumed, and how little it appears to be in the face of huge rendering loads. These are high-end cards designed for huge and hungry tasks. There's also non-gaming applications (CUDA) that will gladly take advantage of such huge memory reserves. If they exist, someone will always come around to make sure every last drop of the available resources gets squeezed out. Believe it or not, there is a market of high-end gaming enthusiasts and GPGPU users for such a large amount of VRAM is very applicable. Besides, it wasn't even too long ago 512MB was consider ample memory, and now to really get the most out of games on moderate settings, 1GB to 1.5GB is closer to the minimum needed.

Most people anyway who are willing to drop hundreds of dollars on a card will do a little more research than just looking at the amount of memory as a reference to the available performance. Even for a novice, it's not hard to interpret performance charts from popular titles (which are all over the web, if the 2 seconds is taken to glance at any tech site). I honestly have never met someone who has purchased a card on memory specs alone.

 

[slomo4sho]

The real question is whether these re-branded 680s(770) and 670s(760 Ti) will allowed to run in SLI configuration with existing 680s and 670s.

Alternatively, I wouldn't mind paying a discounted price on the "older" generation cards

I'll wait for the benchmarks.

You think they are going to differ from the 680 and 670? The only new benchmark that is worth seeing is that of the 780. From what we can tell from the Titan, the 780 will likely sit 10-15% above the 680.

top end cards are not geared for single screen, or even 1080p
they are geared for 1600p and 3-5 (6 depending on how you want the setup) screens

1080p 2gb is enough for all the bells and whistles i believe.
3gb is good enough for a single 1600p
but you want 3-6 monitors 6gb is what you want as a minimum, and the titan (thats basicly what the 5gb card is scaled back a bit) is powerful enough to drive 5 monitors on its own.

Have you actually seen the benchmarks of a Titan?

 

[samwelaye]

If the 760ti actually came in at 299 that would be a killer deal!

 

[ipwn3r456]

FINALLY! Some good news for Nvidia!

 

[marrawan]

Seems nVidia is releasing cards at AMD pace, Not theirs!

 

[nieur]

They are putting more RAM because of PS4 has 8 GB of unified memory and future games will use more RAM

 

[10tacle]

I can only hope that this 1) is true, and 2) drives down the price of the 670 and 680 by $100 respectively. I need a second 680 for moving up to a 2560x1600 monitor (I for whatever reason just cannot play a shooter on a 3-monitor setup).

 

[Jay-Z]

So the 780 is the only one with the GK110? As long as the price stays down I'll be happy.

 

[Jay-Z]

So the 780 is the only one with the GK110? As long as the price stays down I'll be happy.

 

[gizmo11x]

hey guys how reliable is this source? I just bought a 660ti yesterday. I can return it inside 2 weeks but it runs so silently, it breaks my heart. Should I return it?

 

[ojas]

Hah! This is basically what the 600 series was going to be.

 

[ojas]

Hah! This is basically what the 600 series was going to be.

 

[hixbot]

Seems like a dull release. Performance should be higher or prices should be lower. A new generation should be 20% faster for the same price. Seems like we are getting 10% faster for 10% more money.

 

[Shadow_07]

That 780 has more cuda cores and ram than the 680 yet for the same price? FUCK! I ALREADY BOUGHT THE 680!

 

[slomo4sho]

That 780 has more cuda cores and ram than the 680 yet for the same price? FUCK! I ALREADY BOUGHT THE 680!

~$450-525 = $599?

 

[photonboy]

The Titan only outperforms the GTX680 ASUS DC2T card by about 25% (on average). It wouldn't take much to nearly match the Titan.
Imagine paying $1200 for a Titan a short time before a $550 780 variant is released with 90% of its performance..

 

[bowzef]

wtf... and i'm thinking about upgrading grrr, this is soo annoying.. i don't want it be true. but if it is. then il have hold on for month to see what happens... and if nothing happens then im just that much closer to next cards. FFS