Guru3D GeForce GTX 680

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce' started by Hilbert Hagedoorn, Mar 22, 2012.

  1. Rich_Guy

    Rich_Guy Ancient Guru

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    Overcockers have got the 4gbs up on pre-order, only £540, what a bargain, lmfao.
     
  2. Irocing

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    The thing is though even though its a 4 Gig card, It still a 256 bit lane
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    Unlike the 7970 at 364.
    They would probably have to alter the hardware to do that, Instead of
    just slapping on more Ram.

    Later:)
     
  3. ESlik

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    "Mid Range"?? I thought the 680 is the Nvidia Flagship. Can you tell us what makes it a mid range card? If it is,then I guess I'm going to wait a bit for their top of the line before I take the plunge. Thanks.
     
  4. RagDoll_Effect

    RagDoll_Effect Ancient Guru

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    Well, the 680 has the GK104 chip, where the GK110 chip is the high end Kepler chip :)

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    That doesn't automatically mean it's a mid range chip.
     
  6. RagDoll_Effect

    RagDoll_Effect Ancient Guru

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    True, but they will eventually release cards with that chip, which is still a Kepler chip :)

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  7. ---TK---

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    the 680 does have a lot of qualities of a mid range chip except for price and performance of course.
     
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    Got any idea how long "eventually" is? Have you heard of a release date? I can wait,but not too long. Thanks bro.
     
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    Just because it will eventually come out doesn't mean GK104 isn't present high end.

    GTX580/GF110 didn't make the 480/GF100 mid-range when it appeared, even though both were Fermi.
     
  10. LinkDrive

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    Sure, but only if you ignore the efficiency of the architecture. Just because it has a 256bit doesn't mean it's of "mid range quality".

    If we just looked at specs alone, we could easily say that a Phenom II 980 is "higher quality" than a i7 2600K.
     

  11. Cyberdyne

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    Yeah, for example we didn't say the 5870 from AMD was mid-range just because it had a 256-bit bus and the 480 had a larger 384-bit bus.
    Both were high end.
     
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  12. LinkDrive

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    Same could also be said comparing the HD6970 to the GTX580.
     
  13. RagDoll_Effect

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    Sorry bro, from what I have read, we're looking at end of the year, beginning of next year :(

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    but what if gk110 is 384bit? the 480 and 580 were both 384bit. so if gk110 is 384 bit I would expect a much higher difference than a 480 to a 580. also amd didnt have any higher bus cards in the 5000 series iirc, so it was there high end
     
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    It makes no sense to compare NVidia's card to NVidia's unreleased card. But it makes perfect sense to compare it to AMD's already-out card; which is why the comparison is valid, and why it's a high end card.
     

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    why not? its called speculating what is to come. but you sure can compare the 680 to the 7970 np
     
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    Big difference between speculating and comparing. The former makes sense, I would agree.
     
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    yes if you say so:nerd:
     
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    So? The HD2900 XT was 512bit, but that didn't stop the 256bit HD2900 Pro from offering comparable performance, nor did it stop ATI from going back to a 256bit model for their enthusiast quality hardware.
     
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    now your bring up old video cards? before you were comparing cpu`? I brought up the 480 to 580 because another member brought it up. should we now bring up some pentium 1`s?
     

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