New GTX 680 Benchmarks surface

Guru3D News · **New GTX 680 Benchmarks surface -** 03-17-2012, 07:30 | posts: 6,350

tHere is a set of benchmarks run released by HKEPC there a GeForce GTX 680 is compared against a Radeon HD 7970 and a previous-generation GeForce GTX 580. The setup was based on a Intel Core i7-3960X...

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RoadKillNL · 03-17-2012, 07:57 | posts: 2,543 | Location: The Netherlands

Might not be the best first impression, but the 7970 has been out for a while and has optimized Drivers for it. While the 680 doesn't.

Pretty much proper comparisons can be done in a month or 2 when the 680 has optimized Drivers aswell.

Ryu5uzaku · 03-17-2012, 10:33 | posts: 3,190 | Location: Finland

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Originally Posted by RoadKillNL

Might not be the best first impression, but the 7970 has been out for a while and has optimized Drivers for it. While the 680 doesn't.

Pretty much proper comparisons can be done in a month or 2 when the 680 has optimized Drivers aswell.

still waiting for those official optimized drivers for 7xxx series ._.

RoadKillNL · 03-17-2012, 11:08 | posts: 2,543 | Location: The Netherlands

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Originally Posted by Ryu5uzaku

still waiting for those official optimized drivers for 7xxx series ._.

Atleast someone read my post

Others might wanna do that instead of QQing right away.

slickric21 · 03-17-2012, 11:16 | posts: 1,680 | Location: U.K

The 680 looks pretty sweet to me, if its going to be priced competitivley.

Its faster than a 7970, and looks like it will use less power, isnt that a win win ????
As long as its priced the same (or hopefully abit cheaper) everyone's a winner aren't they ???!

RoadKillNL · 03-17-2012, 11:44 | posts: 2,543 | Location: The Netherlands

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Originally Posted by slickric21

The 680 looks pretty sweet to me, if its going to be priced competitivley.

Its faster than a 7970, and looks like it will use less power, isnt that a win win ????
As long as its priced the same (or hopefully abit cheaper) everyone's a winner aren't they ???!

And it hasn't even been OCed yet. I think an OCed 680 will pull out ahead on a OCed 7970 in the same Benchmarks.

Time will tell, and as i said in the first post. The 680 doesn't even have optimized Drivers even.

I will be buying one anyways, but it has to be a 4GB Version and be compatible with an Aftermarket Cooler

fr33k · 03-17-2012, 08:27 | posts: 1,784 | Location: USA

fairly disappointing to say the least.

Neo Cyrus · **Memory**: 6GB DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24-1T

Considering how nVidia were boasting that it's the second coming and that their mid range will match the high end of AMD... I was expecting it to win by at least 15%. That's the cue for the lulz.

k3vst3r · 03-17-2012, 08:55 | posts: 2,403 | Location: Manchester UK

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Originally Posted by Neo Cyrus

Considering how nVidia were boasting that it's the second coming and that their mid range will match the high end of AMD... I was expecting it to win by at least 15%. That's the cue for the lulz.

but this is like the midrange 256 bit, 5 power phases Gk104 codename

last card to use GF104 was 460

reckon this was 660 originally but matched 7970 so they upped the naming to 680

mR Yellow · 03-17-2012, 09:12 | posts: 495 | Location: South Africa

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Originally Posted by k3vst3r

but this is like the midrange 256 bit, 5 power phases Gk104 codename

last card to use GF104 was 460

reckon this was 660 originally but matched 7970 so they upped the naming to 680

Nah, i think this was meant to be their high-end but chip had problems with new process. So not all cuda cores are enabled. Release this as a 680 and later release what was mean to be after they got their **** together.

k3vst3r · 03-17-2012, 09:15 | posts: 2,403 | Location: Manchester UK

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Originally Posted by mR Yellow

Nah, i think this was meant to be their high-end but chip had problems with new process. So not all cuda cores are enabled. Release this as a 680 and later release what was mean to be after they got their **** together.

But is theirs bits disabled the power consumption an transistor count would be far higher it wouldn't be pulling 195w

Rich_Guy · 03-17-2012, 14:53 | posts: 6,660 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by mR Yellow

Nah, i think this was meant to be their high-end but chip had problems with new process. So not all cuda cores are enabled. Release this as a 680 and later release what was mean to be after they got their **** together.

Could be, remember the 480, that wasn't what was released was it, it was the 580 specs from day one, but they couldn't get it out, so the card they could get out, they called the 480, and the proper 480, became the 580.

mameira · 03-17-2012, 09:14 | posts: 1,377 | Location: Caracas, Venezuela

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Originally Posted by k3vst3r

but this is like the midrange 256 bit, 5 power phases Gk104 codename

last card to use GF104 was 460

reckon this was 660 originally but matched 7970 so they upped the naming to 680

yeah, Nvidia has such a great arch that they will release a card that performs like a 7970 and named it 680 just because they wanted to give AMD another chance

Aura89 · 03-18-2012, 04:13 | posts: 4,825 | Location: Washington State, USA

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Originally Posted by mameira

yeah, Nvidia has such a great arch that they will release a card that performs like a 7970 and named it 680 just because they wanted to give AMD another chance

You clearly don't understand the fact that, from a business point of view, being able to charge 500~ dollars for a card that should be 200-300~ dollars when your competitor allows it to happen, is an absolute great thing to do

BlackZero · 03-18-2012, 04:30 | posts: 8,078 | Location: United Kingdom

^got any proof that they weren't going to call it 680 anyway seeing as this is the best they have currently and people tend to look at the number and may not buy a card 'labled' as mid-range when AMD have a high-end card out already?

FULMTL · 03-17-2012, 08:51 | posts: 6,146 | Location: Portland, Oregon

L i e s !

mR Yellow · 03-17-2012, 08:55 | posts: 495 | Location: South Africa

It's even running at higher clock. So really FAIL.
nVidia will need to launch it at a great price to make it attractive.

mohiuddin · 03-17-2012, 09:02 | posts: 428

Impressive unigine and 3dmark score.

Kohlendioxidus · 03-17-2012, 09:19 | posts: 1,257 | Location: Germany

Is the GTX 680 overclocked until it gets no more?? What ist this <1000 MHz gpu freq? It suppose to come with 775 MHz or am I mistakin'??

Anyway some dissapointment rise on my face as I see this. It will not blow 7970 so easilly, let's remember AMD's cards overclock like hell too.

680 GTX looks to be a facelift of 580 GTX nothing more.

Omagana · 03-17-2012, 09:30 | posts: 2,201 | Location: Scotland

Fake surely

DarkKnightDude · 03-17-2012, 09:16 | posts: 570 | Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Benchies are fake, for one thing, a 580 does way better then 67 fps at 1080p in MW3.

Not to mention there isn't a 8xAA in BF3, plus, even if there was, I doubt 8xAA magically increases fps for 7970 (47 fps with 4xMSAA at 1920x1200 according to Guru3D for a 7970, and this bench says 70.5 fps).

If it these are real, then Its pretty disappointing.

Mufflore · 03-17-2012, 09:16 | posts: 9,519 | Location: UK

The results are disappointing, especially as my GTX580 scores 10% higher at stock clocks than the GTX580 in the report.
Also using their figures, if you clock a GTX580 up to the same core clock as the 680 (and put the memory at its fastest), it will perform quite similar or maybe even better than the 680.

Using my figures, my 580 overclocked will be faster than the 680 unclocked.

This is rubbish.

edit: its even worse if the 680 is overclocked as well!! (didnt spot that)

alanm · 03-17-2012, 09:30 | posts: 4,961

They should have called it the 670. Then it would be more impressive as well as holding out a potential carrot for what may follow.

BahamutxD · 03-17-2012, 11:00 | posts: 151 | Location: Spain

I was hoping for some more, still want to check for power consumption and specially price, hope they don't go all crazy with it and can compete with 7970.

Xzibit · *Last edited by Xzibit; 03-17-2012 at 11:33.*

Where is Nosiv. That bot must have some antidot for this slides.
Hey, as we can see nobody cares about NDA. I think Nvidia is interested in this hype, because, Kepler will be unbeatable.