First: GTX 680 review !!!

[uutorok]

http://www.hkepc.com/7672

 

[Aeiou]

I wish i could read moonspeak.

good god it looks pretty decent.

 

[Screech]

http://translate.google.com/transla...=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.hkepc.com/7672&act=url

That site is getting hammered though

 

[Grooveriding]

Got it to show up, it's a not a review, those are the press deck slides. :hmm:

 

[shadowofthesun]

Faster and cooler than 7970? What has nvidia done?

I'll hold off on final assessments until I see a review I can actually read but so far things are looking very, very good for the green team.

Edit: I'm on my phone but working on rehosting graphs... I'll post them here as they upload

http://www.imgur.com/UsD8r.jpg

http://www.imgur.com/gumsg.jpg

http://www.imgur.com/Mp39R.jpg

 

[railven]

http://translate.google.com/transla...=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.hkepc.com/7672&act=url

That site is getting hammered though

Yeah, after trying to load page 6 for almost an hour I just gave up.

Will just wait for one of you guys to quick link the good stuff or AT's official review.

 

[busydude]

I think they reviewed games that nVidia recommended.. as I see TWIMTBP titles. Looks promising nonetheless.

 

[blastingcap]

Looks like stock vs stock, the GTX 680 eeks out small wins on regular titles and wins more on TWIMTBP titles. 7970 has huge headroom so it'll be interesting to see how the GTX 680 does when both are overclocked. The most interesting graph to me was power draw. Both are probably priced beyond what I'm willing to pay, though, as 28nm price/perf fails to impress me so far.

Edit to add: I wish we saw more about NVDA power boost in action, where they go up to TDP or even a bit beyond, at times of peak stress. The most interesting graphs may be minimum vs. minimum framerates, not average vs. average.

 

[railven]

Looks like stock vs stock, the GTX 680 eeks out small wins on regular titles and wins more on TWIMTBP titles. 7970 has huge headroom so it'll be interesting to see how the GTX 680 does when both are overclocked. The most interesting graph to me was power draw. Both are probably priced beyond what I'm willing to pay, though, as 28nm price/perf fails to impress me so far.

Edit to add: I wish we saw more about NVDA power boost in action, where they go up to TDP or even a bit beyond, at times of peak stress. The most interesting graphs may be minimum vs. minimum framerates, not average vs. average.

From what I gathered it doesn't exceed TDP and only ramps up in games that have TDP headroom.

My question is when you start OCing and hit that power wall, does boost still kick in? Or if you're using v-sync and your card can render 100 FPS at only 40% GPU load, does boost deactivate?

 

[Nintendesert]

Awesome performance for $300!

 

[Olikan]

i am not juding this card yet...
but, in the cherry picked benchmarks, we see a tie in one of them...

marketing fail....or, this don't smells good

 

[Grooveriding]

Awesome performance for $300!

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[Kingbee13]

I'm curious to see how the performance holds up past 1080p, based on this alone it doesnt really live up to the hype (not that it's Nvidia's fault for the hype) other than the lack of credible information from them.

 

[Joseph F]

Awesome performance for $300!

You have to be smoking crack if you think that nVidia will put a $300 MSRP on these cards.

 

[JBT]

I want to see both 7970 and 680 OCed then compare the results. Its obvious the 7970's could have been clocked higher than they were. Lets see where the 680 falls on the scale.

 

[Keysplayr]

Awesome performance for $300!

Who besides Charlie said this card would be 300 dollars?

 

[railven]

Who besides Charlie said this card would be 300 dollars?

I recall a lot of pro-green posters here drumming up that number. Even i was getting excited about a price war.

<in a sober voice>
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[Vesku]

Yeah, $350-400 seems reasonable. ;p Still crossing my fingers it does well with bitcoin hashing, being able to run a mix of AMD and NVIDIA would be fantastic.

 

[blastingcap]

This site has most of the relevant portions of the Chinese site up:

http://www.bouweenpc.nl/nieuws/hardware/review-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-uitgelekt

Translation link via Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/transla...dware/review-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-uitgelekt

"New Adaptive VSync technology


NVIDIA, on the other hand, made &#8203;&#8203;for the actual operation of fluency of the game is optimized and to promote the new Adaptive VSync VSync setting are gamers, open the main purpose is to reduce the graphics card output image is generated in different fps too fast or too slow situations, and the output frame rate is locked in with the mainstream display screen 60fps. However, the image of the actual output of the graphics card will still be due to different scenes within the game for differences between the actual output fps lower than 60fps fps, will be directly reduced to 30 below 30fps is reduced to 20fps.


In fact, such cases are quite common, and convert 60fps to 30fps of the screen will significantly slow the beating, which greatly affect the fluency of the game, the new Adaptive VSync just solve the problem, when the Adaptive VSync enabled, the system automatically detection of the actual operation fps than 60 VSync will open a locked 60fps output frames, such as less than 60 will be automatically VSync turn off and running to the actual output frames to reduce all of a sudden dropped to 30fps from 60fps is the emergence of slow beat, can be very useful."

Yes, that sounds good to me. I like VSYNC but hate the bouncing back and forth between 30 and 60 in some games.

 

[blackened23]

I'll reserve final judgement until a legitimate source has numbers, because we've seen all too many fake slides. I have no idea who this review is from or what website they represent. But if it is true, impressive. I'd like to see a wide selection of games in any review, though......SR3, Alan Wake, witcher 2 would all be good choices in addition to the usual fare that every website reports.

 

[Awkward]

Not bad for a mid-range card. Shaping up to look like it'll be well worth my $300 dollars. AMD seems about finished here.

 

[SirPauly]

Who besides Charlie said this card would be 300 dollars?

The only person I know of is Charlie. There has been hope for price/performance being redefined though from a consumer point of view, with me being very vocal though.

 

[SirPauly]

<in a sober voice>
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That's funny!

 

[blastingcap]

Prices of 500-520 euros (per the Dutch article) do not generally translate to $300 U.S. More like $500-550 U.S. And you get 1GB less VRAM. Ugh. I thought cutting edge VRAM was expensive, so shouldn't that keep down costs and drop it below 7970 price ($550)??

 

[blackened23]

Not bad for a mid-range card. Shaping up to look like it'll be well worth my $300 dollars. AMD seems about finished here.

Not sure if serious. Good laughs were had.