Gigabyte GTX 670 Listed @ 412 USD

[Don Karnage]

http://www.provantage.com/gigabyte-technology-gv-n670oc-2gd~7GIG90N0.htm

Amd 7 series price cuts should be coming later this week.

 

[Stuka87]

I love how the place holder image is of a 4850

Price cuts all depend on how the actual cards perform. They may perform just like TT's test. But their card was also using a LOT more power than a 680, which makes me question their tests validity.

 

[Don Karnage]

I love how the place holder image is of a 4850

Price cuts all depend on how the actual cards perform. They may perform just like TT's test. But their card was also using a LOT more power than a 680, which makes me question their tests validity.

Im sure reference designs will be slower

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Im sure reference designs will be slower

100% true

 

[Edrick]

Is the 670 going to OC similar to the 500 series? (I don't have a 680 so I am not certain). I keep hearing that the 600 series has some OC issues.

 

[Don Karnage]

Is the 670 going to OC similar to the 500 series? (I don't have a 680 so I am not certain). I keep hearing that the 600 series has some OC issues.

670 should overclock just like the 680. Locked Vcontrol :$

 

[exar333]

Should mean a $399.99 MSRP then likely. Not too bad.

 

[ShintaiDK]

GTX 670 is listed at 390$ at geizhals if you remove VAT.

Also its in stock and selling.

 

[wand3r3r]

Gigabyte @ $412
http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop...011004001505_BPF8397P.shtml&order_id=!ORDERID!

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

It doesn't have OC "issues", per se.

It's just that NVIDIA has limited how you can tweak the card by not allowing you like AMD to set a fixed core clock and memory clock as well as a fixed voltage. Instead, NVIDIA is only giving you an offset to play with the clocks and voltage. Software and the card itself decides how much voltage it needs for a given clock speed.

The GTX 680 doesn't overclock to as high a percentage as an HD 7970, which is why both are tied OC vs OC but the 7970 still consumes a lot more power. The GTX 670 seems to only perform 2-3% slower clock-for-clock and it comes clocked a bit lower, so it'd overclock a few percent higher than the GTX 680.

In terms of overclocking the best AMD cards are the HD 7850 and 7950, but the 7950 definitely isn't priced right given the fact that this card will cost the same and be the same speed as the HD 7970 stock. AMD will have to lower the HD 7950 to $350 and the HD 7970 to $400 at the min. The HD 7870 will probably need to be lowered in price, too, so around $280-300 for that.

 

[blackened23]

Pretty impressive. Basically almost zero reason to get a 680 over this, barring availability.... The big issue will be availability. Most retailers are getting shipments of only 5-10 units at a time (of gtx 680 sku) per newegg business and blt, which is ridiculously meager.

 

[KompuKare]

Pretty impressive. Basically almost zero reason to get a 680 over this, barring availability.... The big issue will be availability. Most retailers are getting shipments of only 5-10 units at a time, which is ridiculously meager.

Surely availability be higher than 680 since they've had the last six weeks+ to stockpile dies which didn't make the 680 binning. Nvidia are die harvesting experts after all...

If the shader:tmu:rop ratio is confirmed (is it?) at 1344:112:32 vs 1536:128:32 for the 680, the main question must surely be if the cut in shaders/TMUs/ROPs is enough at binning for lots of those dies which don't make the golden 680 to be ok for the 670. And if the 670 ends up using more power than the 680 (rather than using proportionally less), it may mean that the 680s were not only binned for speed but for leakage and voltage too.

Of course, this is all speculation since nobody knows why the 680s are in such low supply and what kind of yield issues Nvidia is having. Or maybe they aren't having bad yields but rather all their wafers are going to OEM parts since they have to keep them happy (not sure who their OEMs are but after G84M /G86M etc., some of them still must be weary of Nvidia so it makes sense to stay in their good side).

 

[ShintaiDK]

I dont get why people talk about poor GTX 680 avalibility. When it basicly boils down to a very localized Newegg issue....

And GTX 670 is already selling and in stock.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Excellent! now maybe we'll start seeing some $200-$250 next gen graphics cards that perform decently.

 

[Elfear]

Excellent! now maybe we'll start seeing some $200-$250 next gen graphics cards that perform decently.

Like the 7850?? It's been available for a while now.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Good point, I'd still like another option. I've owned both Nvidia & ATI cards, for some reason I seem to be happier with Nvidia. Although my 9500 pro was my all time favorite card.

 

[chronochime]

I dont get why people talk about poor GTX 680 avalibility. When it basicly boils down to a very localized Newegg issue....

And GTX 670 is already selling and in stock.

Where is GTX 670 for sale already, beside provantage?

 

[Grooveriding]

I dont get why people talk about poor GTX 680 avalibility. When it basicly boils down to a very localized Newegg issue....

And GTX 670 is already selling and in stock.

It's not a localized newegg issue, it's all of North America. The 680 has availability in Europe. Reasons, who knows. Perhaps because it's considerably more expensive there at €500, which amounts to about $650US dollars, making the 7970 a much better perf/$ choice overseas.

North America as a whole has about half the population of Europe, so there also could be more cards allocated to Europe.

Either way we're 2 months past the launch of the 680 and availability is still abysmal. It will be interesting to see how availability is on the 670. If there can be some value in that metric in giving an idea of how poor 680 yields are to account for harvested GK104s going into 670s.

 

[Crap Daddy]

Like the 7850?? It's been available for a while now.

A reference clocked 7850 performs with a few % better than last generations 6950 at a same selling price point. Now I don't consider this a next gen performing card. This also goes for the 7870.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Where is GTX 670 for sale already, beside provantage?

http://geizhals.at/eu/?in=&fs=GTX+670

Plus places in DK etc.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

A reference clocked 7850 performs with a few % better than last generations 6950 at a same selling price point. Now I don't consider this a next gen performing card. This also goes for the 7870.

Not much of a good argument when the vast majority of them should reach 1050MHz Core on stock voltage. That's a 22% increase, with a corresponding performance increase of 15-20% because of very good scaling.