GTX 680 Owners Check-In

[RagDoll_Effect]

Originally Posted by rakunvar

I could kiss you for that lol.. Saved me from facesmashing my 680. No clue how I missed that.. We need some more single 680 Benches then IMO. Thanks much!!

On the other note, whats the best Percision/Afterburner Settings people have gotten stable? Noticed its pretty variable per person honestly.

You're welcome m8 I'm not sure of the average overclock settings people here have gotten, but I think it varies a bit so maybe like +100mhz to start with on core, mem a bit less...

regards,
RagDoll.

[Retow]

Originally Posted by rakunvar

I could kiss you for that lol.. Saved me from facesmashing my 680. No clue how I missed that.. We need some more single 680 Benches then IMO. Thanks much!!

On the other note, whats the best Percision/Afterburner Settings people have gotten stable? Noticed its pretty variable per person honestly.

I would oblige but i have a 120hz monitor and it only goes up to 1680x1050

on a different note 3d vision is awesome with this card finally a single GPU that can handle decent settings in later games

[Netherwind]

Checking in

I'll post benchies tonight.

[Darren Hodgson]

Originally Posted by RagDoll_Effect

You're welcome m8 I'm not sure of the average overclock settings people here have gotten, but I think it varies a bit so maybe like +100mhz to start with on core, mem a bit less...

regards,
RagDoll.

I posted my results in this thread here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=360571

My POV card seems to be able to handle +130 Power, +125 MHz Core and +250 MHz memory just fine with no unexpected freezes or artifacts during my testing of several games as well as 3DMark11 (Performance + Extreme) and Heaven v3.0 (1920x1200, 8xAA/16xAF, Extreme Tessellation). Those were just conservative figures I picked based on the fact that my card, by default (i.e. without altering any settings), will overclock itself to 1,137 MHz on the core during games (+121 MHz over the default core). I suspect the memory can go higher; a guy from NVIDIA claims that 6.8 GHz (800 MHz over the default clock) is typically possible. That in itself is amazing considering the GTX 580's memory was only clocked at 4 GHz!

This card really is incredible. It scored X3656 on 3DMark11 whereas my GTX 580 managed only X2127 (that's a 70% improvement!). It's a beast on the default settings and a pleasant upgrade over my GTX 580 but overclocked it absolutely roars (I don't mean that literally by the way as the card runs very quiet). The core clock can probably handle 1.3 GHz max. at a push but I'm happy to leave the settings as they are.

[RagDoll_Effect]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

I posted my results in this thread here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=360571

My POV card seems to be able to handle +130 Power, +125 MHz Core and +250 MHz memory just fine with no unexpected freezes or artifacts during my testing of several games as well as 3DMark11 (Performance + Extreme) and Heaven v3.0 (1920x1200, 8xAA/16xAF, Extreme Tessellation). Those were just conservative figures I picked based on the fact that my card, by default (i.e. without altering any settings), will overclock itself to 1,137 MHz on the core during games (+121 MHz over the default core). I suspect the memory can go higher; a guy from NVIDIA claims that 6.8 GHz (800 MHz over the default clock) is typically possible. That in itself is amazing considering the GTX 580's memory was only clocked at 4 GHz!

This card really is incredible. It scored X3656 on 3DMark11 whereas my GTX 580 managed only X2127 (that's a 70% improvement!). It's a beast on the default settings and a pleasant upgrade over my GTX 580 but overclocked it absolutely roars (I don't mean that literally by the way as the card runs very quiet). The core clock can probably handle 1.3 GHz max. at a push but I'm happy to leave the settings as they are.

That's brilliant, glad you like the card 70% is a very worthwhile upgrade, and if 3d vision is that much better, makes me think of getting one of these aswell… wish I had the extra change.

regards,
RagDoll.

[swecarl]

Got my GTX 680 card today, overclocked it at once. This is the score i got:

3dmark Vantage:


http://forumbilder.se/images/897201225139P9b3b.jpg

3dmark 11:


http://forumbilder.se/images/f37201225310P9b9c.jpg

This was also the highest clock i could get without 3dmark crashing or givieng artifacts.

[cowie]

Thats not bad good scores.

I got the hotwire mod shams put up -12 in bios gives me 1.33ish-+.
I did not do the ocp/ovp i want that right now.
So far +200 has been ok now to mod the one with the h70 on it,around 10c hotter then stock.
pretty easy mod just 1 wire to plug into mb,i should go get some tal caps to i think
i'll see what i can do with a single card...hope it dont start smoking on me.

[Frohman0905]

I've also joined the club! Gainward GTX 680 incoming! Expected arrival: 2 days

[Darren Hodgson]

Hmmm, a lot of people seem to be getting very good overclocks on the memory of +400 to +500 MHz. I tried +500 MHz on mine and got "driver not responding errors" but that may have been because I hadn't raised the Power Limiter from its default 100% at the time.

+250 MHz seems to work fine for me from my testing last night but seems a little conservative so I may try pushing it a little further to +350 or +400 MHz. This increases the memory bandwidth available to the card, doesn't it, so is useful when using lots of AA?

[Shataan]

Well, I hope there is a crapload of NEW Next Gen games coming to justify having these new cards.

[Darren Hodgson]

Originally Posted by Shataan

Well, I hope there is a crapload of NEW Next Gen games coming to justify having these new cards.

Even if there isn't, the GTX 680 allows you to push higher resolutions and settings and gives higher minimum framerates. I can finally run Aliens vs. Predator without stuttering and Alan Wake at 60 fps for example.

[Uncle Dude]

Woohoo, finally shipped!



Is a GTX 580 a ridiculous choice for PhysX in Batman? Of course it is!

[Birdy62]

There is something i don't understand. I've just received the new Asus GTX 680.
Uninstalled the old GTX 580, put the new card in the box, boot the PC, installation of the 301.10 drivers and.. everything seems fine..

BUT, MSI afterburner display a 705 mhz core clock and a 3004 mhz memory clock
NvidiaInspector shows me the same. The memory clock seems ok, but the core clock should be at 1006 Mhz, no ? Am i missing something or what ?

[scheherazade]

Originally Posted by Shataan

Well, I hope there is a crapload of NEW Next Gen games coming to justify having these new cards.

If you're shooting for 120 fps @ 120hz minimum, then the 680 is still way under that mark (@ high settings).

-scheherazade

Originally Posted by Birdy62

There is something i don't understand. I've just received the new Asus GTX 680.
Uninstalled the old GTX 580, put the new card in the box, boot the PC, installation of the 301.10 drivers and.. everything seems fine..

BUT, MSI afterburner display a 705 mhz core clock and a 3004 mhz memory clock
NvidiaInspector shows me the same. The memory clock seems ok, but the core clock should be at 1006 Mhz, no ? Am i missing something or what ?

You're talking about mhz under load, or idle?

-scheherazade

[Netherwind]

My benchies - GTX680 on stock.

I dont know why my 3DMark11 score is so low but I have great difficulties to disable Vsync. The global settings seem to get overrided by Program Settings (which I wish I could completely disable). Other running programs seem also to override the current Program Settings. Gah, well I have not been on the green team for some time now so maybe I'm just not used to it?

Could anyone analysis my scores and tell me what I can do to improve them?

[wasteomind]

Originally Posted by Birdy62

There is something i don't understand. I've just received the new Asus GTX 680.
Uninstalled the old GTX 580, put the new card in the box, boot the PC, installation of the 301.10 drivers and.. everything seems fine..

BUT, MSI afterburner display a 705 mhz core clock and a 3004 mhz memory clock
NvidiaInspector shows me the same. The memory clock seems ok, but the core clock should be at 1006 Mhz, no ? Am i missing something or what ?

Same issue here with an EVGA card. Brand shouldn't matter because they were all Nvidia reference and built by them. Anyways my card won't raise past 705mhz core and 1125 mhz memory no matter what I throw at them. Something isn't right.

[Birdy62]

You're talking about mhz under load, or idle?

-scheherazade[/QUOTE]

Well, idle is 324 mhz and under load 706 mhz
If i look at Nvidia inspector, it shows on idle :
Current clock : 324 mhz
GPU clock 706 mhz
Default clock 706 mhz

If i benchmark it, with the exact same settings than Netherwin (just above), i score 1158 in the heaven benchmark, which seems ok, but i dont understand the clock speeds...

[wasteomind]

Originally Posted by Birdy62

You're talking about mhz under load, or idle?

-scheherazade

Under load. I get 705mhz, idle is 324mhz. I thought these cards were supposed to have a base clock of 1006mhz on load.

EDIT strange, I rebooted and it is working fine now... 1019 mhz core..

[Bentez]

Testing +600 on mem at the moment and it appears stable

On the core I'm not so lucky, can only get to around +130 (stress test stable) on the core taking me to about 1215-1230MHz on stock volts

Could do with pushing the voltage a tiny bit more..

seeing about 10405 is 3dmark11 and Heaven maxed I get about 49.6FPS..

Loving this card though

[wasteomind]

So I've been testing my 680 for the past 2 or so hours. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed at the same time I'm absolutely amazed.

In terms of the performance numbers, the 680 is maybe about 5% faster in the stuff I've been testing. So I'm a bit disappointed the numbers aren't a bit higher compared to my old setup, but running high overclocked tri sli gtx 280s I'm not honestly surprised. They might be old, but nothing to sneeze at. I'm only running stock on the 680 so far, but the smoothness, temps, and quietness of this setup cannot be overstated.

I can't honestly tell you how good it feels to be able to play with Vsync off and not seeing my screen tearing constantly and endlessly. It is nice to look at a stable image without vsync. Oh yes it is. I've finally been able to experience tessellation and holy what the what more games need this.

The highest I've seen the card run at so far has been about 72c with 49% fan speed. A big difference from 3 cards blazing 85c at 100% fan. I'm sure my power bill is going to reflect that change too.

I'm really excited to start testing SGSSAA performance on this thing in some of my games, because that is one area the gtx280s did not hold up at all. 2x SGSSAA on gtx 280s was lucky to have acceptable frame rates if at all.

EDIT oh and I can now monitor the gpu stats on my g15 without the sensor polling rate causing stutter (from trying to poll 3 cards) while gaming. BIG WIN

[zimzoid]

Hi guys, Anyone gone from sli 580,s to sli 680,s just wondering if its really worth the upgrade? Or should i just wait for the next gtx version..

[Agent-A01]

Originally Posted by zimzoid

Hi guys, Anyone gone from sli 580,s to sli 680,s just wondering if its really worth the upgrade? Or should i just wait for the next gtx version..

wait bro. not worth it

[Mda400]

If this is the flagship single gpu of Keplar, then this sucks... No offence to the people who bought 680's but it was suppose to be 2x performance of Fermi. it only looks like 1.3x to 1.5x even with ironed out drivers.

Maxwell is the 4x step from Keplar. suppose to be bigger than this. ill wait for that. Anyways, congrats for all you guys who love your new cards.

I was the same way when i got my 480. (then i watercooled than sum***** because the fan was too loud )

< LOOK EVERYBAWDY! Its Mr. Kepler!

[ricardonuno1980]

Originally Posted by Netherwind

My benchies - GTX680 on stock.

I dont know why my 3DMark11 score is so low but I have great difficulties to disable Vsync. The global settings seem to get overrided by Program Settings (which I wish I could completely disable). Other running programs seem also to override the current Program Settings. Gah, well I have not been on the green team for some time now so maybe I'm just not used to it?

Could anyone analysis my scores and tell me what I can do to improve them?

http://i.imgur.com/atkf4.png

Sounds it's normal for graphics test only in 3DMark Vantage and 11 because graphics scores are more much important than P scores. I can found your Graphics scores in 3DMV and 3DM11.
It's still normal in Heaven.

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by Mda400

If this is the flagship single gpu of Keplar, then this sucks... No offence to the people who bought 680's but it was suppose to be 2x performance of Fermi. it only looks like 1.3x to 1.5x even with ironed out drivers.

Maxwell is the 4x step from Keplar. suppose to be bigger than this. ill wait for that. Anyways, congrats for all you guys who love your new cards.

I was the same way when i got my 480. (then i watercooled than sum***** because the fan was too loud )

< LOOK EVERYBAWDY! Its Mr. Kepler!

Huh?