First: GTX 680 review !!!

[SirPauly]

Wow. Good catch. 8X MSAA is not possible in bf3, these slides are obviously fake.

Could be a mistake:


http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gigabyte_hd7970_oc_review/7

 

[Screech]

AMD and some of its vendors' OCd versions of the 7970 remind me a bit of nvidia's 460 and its overclocked variants. nvidia touted 460 OC type cards as competition for some of the 68xx cards iirc, maybe amd will be in a similar boat here.

 

[mak360]

first non-fake benchmark?

Is that the temp?

 

[blackened23]

Could be a mistake:


http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/gigabyte_hd7970_oc_review/7

Sure it could be, but then again consider the source...an unknown source NOT affiliated with a website? Come on. There's no need to stand up for an obviously shady source. I suspect its fake, but in any case we'll see true numbers in less than a week.

I'll be first to praise the gk104 and eat crow if the rumors are true, but these fake reviews aren't cutting it. I'll wait for the AT benchmarks.

 

[mak360]

A site showing benches/leaks and painting nvidia in the best light but failing to show overclocking says it all for me.

 

[thilanliyan]

I don't see how they'll spin the 7970 after this, looks like they're clutching onto OC'ing atm though.

You mean like you do with your 470s from HELL?!

 

[blackened23]

Just read up on adaptive Vsync and FXAA in the driver. Finally. Big props to nvidia for this, even if we're not certain about the performance.

About damn time they put FXAA in the driver, happy they did this. I was never a fan of modifying .exe files to enable FXAA. :thumbsup:

 

[Kenmitch]

Take the fake review with a pound of salt

Will be interesting once real reviews pop up tho.

 

[mak360]

Idle power is interesting in this bench (Again - best scenario most likely)

 

[Joseph F]

You mean like you do with your 470s from HELL?!

:thumbsup:

 

[epidemis]

If this image on the Dutch website is correct:

Then it has a transistor density of 0,012 gigatransistor/mm^2 opposed to GTX 580's 0,0057 gigatransistor/mm^2
The growth is transistor density is then (0,012-0,0057/0,0057)= 110%
The physical scaling of the transistor from 40nm to 28 is (40^2-28^2)/28^2 = 104%

So it's above perfect scaling! They have crammed the transistors tighter together than their 40 nm process. That might explain why some sites have reported some problems at producing them at TMSC!

The real feat is though (if the review is correct) it accomplishes more than 7970 despite having a footprint that's 20% percent smaller!

 

[blackened23]

If this image on the Dutch website is correct:

Then it has a transistor density of 0,012 gigatransistor/mm^2 opposed to GTX 580's 0,0057 gigatransistor/mm^2
The growth is transistor density is then (0,012-0,0057/0,0057)= 110%
The physical scaling of the transistor from 40nm to 28 is (40^2-28^2)/28^2 = 104%

So it's above perfect scaling! They have crammed the transistors tighter together than their 40 nm process. That might explain why some sites have reported some problems at producing them at TMSC!

That chart is riddled with errors. Like, too many to even bother naming. Seriously, WTF.

 

[SirPauly]

Sure it could be, but then again consider the source...an unknown source NOT affiliated with a website? Come on. There's no need to stand up for an obviously shady source. I suspect its fake, but in any case we'll see true numbers in less than a week.

I'll be first to praise the gk104 and eat crow if the rumors are true, but these fake reviews aren't cutting it. I'll wait for the AT benchmarks.

Sure, more investigations and reviews from third parties are more than welcomed.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

You mean like you do with your 470s from HELL?!

:thumbsup:

The logical fallacy here is that I spent $1300 including blocks, only to get whooped in every metric possible two months later.

 

[epidemis]

That chart is riddled with errors. Like, too many to even bother naming. Seriously, WTF.

I find it convincing, there's a whole slew of press release material that I can't imagine someone made up.

 

[wand3r3r]

Supposing there is a spec of truth in any of the charts, when it says 1006 MHz, but if it automatically overclocks up to 1100 MHz I wonder what the overclocking headroom could be. It seems it is already overclocking itself to TDP limits.

The charts should probably be displaying the overclocked turbo clocks in my opinion.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Benchmarks look fake. 74 fps on a 7970 and 680 for MW3? We're talking about MW3 here. You would think the framerates are way higher.

 

[sontin]

I think they don't have access to the real Review board, drivers and bios. Look at the "press deck" or better the fotos...

There is another picture of the board in the wild which has all 5 power phase.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Benchmarks look fake. 74 fps on a 7970 and 680 for MW3? We're talking about MW3 here. You would think the framerates are way higher.

cpu limited - but they're probably fake anyways.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

I'll wait until the real reviews. Too many people are getting caught up in the hype.

 

[Nemesis 1]

I sure would like Keys to chim in . As these NV gpus look most impressive. These are the 104s correct . Keys is this the highend or is something better coming. If I need to wait for the high end thats fine . I can get one of these . But if this is the highend I need 2. As for the high end being canceled I not real sure as the 580 coming out when it did took everyone by surprize . It also caused me to move to the green team as I really liked how NV handled the 580 release. I suspect this is the midrange card and NV is sand bagging. Just like they did with the 580 release . GO NV. Great drivers buy the way . NV does do drivers pretty well. I am hooked on green. Than the die size very impressive . Even the AMD guys would agree as we have thousands of past post . praising AMDs smaller die .

 

[Nintendesert]

Who besides Charlie said this card would be 300 dollars?

Hey, if everyone else can pick and choose which BS rumors they will believe, I'm going to believe it's going to be $300 bucks too! :awe:

 

[Skurge]

Benchmarks look fake. 74 fps on a 7970 and 680 for MW3? We're talking about MW3 here. You would think the framerates are way higher.

I get higher FPS than the 580 in that bench. I don't know how anyone can take these benches seriously.

Vs

8xAA or not, how did the 7970 and 580 lose almost half their performance?

Vs

I didn't know the 7970 was this much faster than the 580 in BF3. And apparently their magical 8xAA boosts performance.

 

[blackened23]

I guess rollo forgot to double check the slides before uploading them.

 

[Keysplayr]

That chart is riddled with errors. Like, too many to even bother naming. Seriously, WTF.

I'd appreciate it if you actually did bother. Ok. Which ones?