Nvidia 6xx Series

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Rumour: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 to release in February:-

The rumour claims GTX 680 will offer similar performance to AMD's Radeon HD 7970. Clock speed is 780 MHz - no higher than GTX 580 - while it sports 2GB memory. While this suggests a 512-bit or 256-bit memory bus, NVIDIA has in the past mated 1GB to 192-bit with GTX 550 Ti, so it is possible GTX 680 has a 384-bit memory interface. Little else is revealed about the mysterious GTX 680.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/rumour-nvid ... 14552.html

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Nvidia wins hands down this Gen, even Charlie says so!

The short story is that Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) will win this round on just about every metric, some more than others. Look for late March or early April availability, with volumes being the major concern at first. GK104 cards seen by SemiAccurate all look very polished and complete, far from rough prototypes or “Puppies“. A2 silicon is now back from TSMC, and that will likely be the production stepping barring any last second hitches. Currently, there aren’t any.

For the doubters, both of the current cards we saw have two DVI plugs on the bottom, one HDMI, and one DP with a half slot cooling grate on one of the two slot end plates. The chip is quite small, and has 8 GDDR5 chips meaning a 256-bit bus/2GB standard, and several other features we can’t talk about yet due to differences between the cards seen. These items won’t change the outcome though, Nvidia wins, handily.S|A

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/01/19/nvid ... ar-winner/

And that's just Nvidia's midrange card I believe...

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Leaked specs?



http://diybbs.zol.com.cn/56/231_558125.html

Nvidia 28nm GK104 GPU specs revealed:-

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25636 ... s-revealed

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Greetings!

nVidia back to the old tricks?

NVIDIA Accused Of Using Marketing Shills

Apparently ChipHell has accused NVIDIA of using marketing shills in its forums and, according to the site owners, they had to ban all the accounts spreading the anti-AMD rhetoric. Hit the link for the complete run-down. Thanks to [H] forum member xoleras for the heads up.

Rough chinese translation. ALL of the posts related to kepler being 299$ from chiphell, and speculated performance, were from marketing shills (proven by the owners of the forum) and have been banned. Charlie from SA was bamboozled as well. Keep it classy Nvidia.

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Physics hardware makes Kepler/GK104 fast :-

All of the benchmark numbers shown by Nvidia, and later to SemiAccurate, were overwhelmingly positive. How overwhelmingly positive? Far faster than an AMD HD7970/Tahiti for a chip with far less die area and power use, and it blew an overclocked 580GTX out of the water by unbelievable margins. That is why we wrote this article. Before you take that as a backpedal, we still think those numbers are real, the card will achieve that level of performance in the real world on some programs.

The problem for Nvidia is that once you venture outside of that narrow list of tailored programs, performance is likely to fall off a cliff, with peaky performance the likes of which haven’t been seen in a long time. On some games, GK104 will handily trounce a 7970, on others, it will probably lose to a Pitcairn. Does this mean it won’t actually do what is promised? No, it will. Is this a problem? Depends on how far review sites dare to step outside of the ‘recommenced’ list of games to benchmark in the reviewers guide.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/02/01/phys ... k104-fast/

If it really is that much of a radical change to the Fermi architecture, then no doubt it'll have a few optimization issues...

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Greetings!

For some reason that article makes me angry towards nVidia...

Anyway:
Entire Nvidia Kepler Series Specifications, Price & Release Date

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For some reason that article makes me angry towards nVidia...

Nothing new that we didn't already know though, Nvidia pays and works with developers and implements code that is optimized for their hardware, AMD doesn't, and cries foul without bothering to do anything about it...

If you want to play games that work fine on day one release = Go Nvidia, If your happy to wait for a driver update/fix afterwards = Go AMD

It's been like this for so many years now, it's like an old soap opera tbh...

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Greetings!

For some reason that article makes me angry towards nVidia...

Nothing new that we didn't already know though, Nvidia pays and works with developers and implements code that is optimized for their hardware, AMD doesn't, and cries foul without bothering to do anything about it...

That reasoning holds against the forced water calculations in Crysis 2?
Why force extra work, unseeable in game, just to improve relative performance versus AMD?

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That reasoning holds against the forced water calculations in Crysis 2?
Why force extra work, unseeable in game, just to improve relative performance versus AMD?

Obviously I don't agree when it's something like that which borks the game with extra work, that isn't an optimization, that's just sleazy tactics and unnecessary. But then the developers should be pressured into fixing the game and not allowing that to happen in the first place.

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Greetings!

Ideally, the developers shouldnt have put that out in the first place.