Gigabyte GTX680 retail pictures

[ShadowOfMyself]

Lol those MSI bars... I love how 97.2 fps is half the size of 103 fps

They really need to stop doing that crap, its embarassing... I know the average person is incredibly dumb, but seriously, its too insulting

And I mean this for every company... I know Nvidia and AMD always release those slides with 0.8 as the starting point as well, its complete nonsense

 

[Quantos]

Interesting results. Quick googling pulls up these Unigine 2.5 scores with GTX 580 and 7970 comparisons:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...cs-Card-Review-Tahiti-28nm/Unigine-Heaven-v25
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/gtx580_vs_hd7970_the_ultimate_face_off,16.html

I don't think there were any performance changes between the benchmark revisions, so hopefully the results are comparable. Anyway, from the links it seems that the difference between the GTX 580 and 7970 goes anywhere from ~23% all the way to 40%, so it's tough to say. Judging by the high numbers the MSI handout gives, I think they're running at a very low resolution/tessellation setting.

The score boost seems to be ~5%, which would be the same as the clock boost to ~1050MHz we've seen before, so good scaling there.

If so, that's just marketing and absolutely void of sense. Heck, just the fact that this is a marketing image essentially means we can't trust anything on it! :awe:

 

[Imouto]

Yeah, had to smile at that "feature" The lifetime bar for office usage is also silly. Who would buy a GTX680 to browse web?

Ppl buy hardware just to look at it. In fact most of so called enthusiasts buy them just to talk about it in forums.

I know a lot of ppl that buy thousands in hardware each year just to post a few benches.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

I find it interesting they're comparing performance with a 580 and totally ignoring the 7970.

 

[Grooveriding]

I find it interesting they're comparing performance with a 580 and totally ignoring the 7970.

Probably because MSI sells AMD and nvidia based cards and this is what MSI will be replacing the 580 with.

 

[Arzachel]

I find it interesting they're comparing performance with a 580 and totally ignoring the 7970.

And without any settings they benched at. For all we know, it could be set up to only strain the tessellation engines.

 

[Tempered81]

EVGA Superclocked

http://us.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=69800

 

[blackened23]

I find it interesting they're comparing performance with a 580 and totally ignoring the 7970.

MSI sells both brands so they wouldn't do such a thing. LOL @ the non exploding capacitors

 

[Don Karnage]

EVGA Superclocked

http://us.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=69800

Price isnt too bad. Atleast its not 600

 

[Grooveriding]

EVGA Superclocked

http://us.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=69800

That confirms pricing for me. I shop a fair bit with ncix and they don't do initial gauging on pricing.

That's a SC version though, standard 680 probably will retail for $530-$550. Hope this thing brings the miracle and is 50% faster than a 580

 

[Tempered81]

@Groove: I'd be surprised if it's anything except $549 and 40-45% faster than 580.

 

[Quantos]

MSI as well: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=69802&vpn=N680GTX-PM2D 2GD5/OC&manufacture=MSI/MicroStar

Weird, it says OC and 1056MHz. So, technically is that OC? :|

Also, note on the EVGA: "This Product is available in 5 to 10 Days"!

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Can someone get a screenshot of ncix gtx 680 page? My iPhone is not doing it.

It looks like for me I'll have to pass on this gen. I'm really only looking to spend $250 or so on a new card and I can't get anything better than what I have now in that price range. I need at least a 25% increase from my gtx 480 for $250 and this gen doesn't look to have that.
I will still enjoy reading the reviews and what not.

 

[Grooveriding]

Think stock is like 1006 ? So a 50mhz OC. Surprised to see ncix showing them so early. Think it is because newegg always jumps the gun on them releasing early by a few hours, maybe they are setting up to be ready.

I usually like to order with ncix because they are Canadian, but newegg ships out faster. I order at newegg in the evening/night/morning and it ships the afternoon next day/same day. Order from ncix, order takes 2-3 days to ship out. Probably will go newegg if these deliver the performance, never been patient when it comes to new toys

 

[Quantos]

http://i.imgur.com/le7Jq.png
http://i.imgur.com/ptgmu.png

There!

edit: About NCIX, I've never had any issues with them, in my book they're equal with Newegg and I just buy whichever is cheaper. I haven't noticed any shipping difference to be honest.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

http://i.imgur.com/le7Jq.png
http://i.imgur.com/ptgmu.png

There!

edit: About NCIX, I've never had any issues with them, in my book they're equal with Newegg and I just buy whichever is cheaper. I haven't noticed any shipping difference to be honest.

Thx man

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Think stock is like 1006 ? So a 50mhz OC. Surprised to see ncix showing them so early. Think it is because newegg always jumps the gun on them releasing early by a few hours, maybe they are setting up to be ready.

I usually like to order with ncix because they are Canadian, but newegg ships out faster. I order at newegg in the evening/night/morning and it ships the afternoon next day/same day. Order from ncix, order takes 2-3 days to ship out. Probably will go newegg if these deliver the performance, never been patient when it comes to new toys

How much faster than 7970 would it have to be? If you could go from tri sli 480 to 2 power sipping 680's or even 7970's that'd improve your gaming experience tremendously just from the heat/noise perspective alone.

 

[Grooveriding]

How much faster than 7970 would it have to be? If you could go from tri sli 480 to 2 power sipping 680's or even 7970's that'd improve your gaming experience tremendously just from the heat/noise perspective alone.

I am set on only using 2 cards and getting 20% or more performance. When I looked at 7970 numbers, I'd need two 7970s @ 1200core to pull that off.

I guess about 25 to 30% faster than a 7970 is what I am after, or 50% over a 580. If it was a big die like in the past I wouldn't have any doubts, just having a hard time seeing that much performance in such a tiny die. Hopefully.

 

[AtenRa]

I dont believe we will see more than 10-25% more performance over the GTX580 from GK104.

 

[Grooveriding]

I dont believe we will see more than 10-25% more performance over the GTX580 from GK104.

Ooof, well that would be absolutely brutal. 10% or 25%, both ends or in between would just be horrid. I hope it is not that bad.

 

[Crap Daddy]

I dont believe we will see more than 10-25% more performance over the GTX580 from GK104.

Make that 30-35%

 

[tviceman]

That confirms pricing for me. I shop a fair bit with ncix and they don't do initial gauging on pricing.

That's a SC version though, standard 680 probably will retail for $530-$550. Hope this thing brings the miracle and is 50% faster than a 580

I don't think it will be 50% faster, but 40% is entirely in the realm of possibility, as that would be about ~15% faster than hd7970, which (conflicting) benchmarks are starting to show. Looks like this is going to be very similar gtx580 vs. hd6970 in performance, except this time Nvidia will have the smaller, more power efficient chip.

 

[Tempered81]

Make that 30-35%

haha, 40-45!

 

[Crap Daddy]

haha, 40-45!

I'll raise you by 5!

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I dont believe we will see more than 10-25% more performance over the GTX580 from GK104.

10-25% is all the 7970 has over the 580, so you believe the 680 will be equal to the 7970?

Right now in Heaven 3.0 my 470s at stock are 15% faster than a stock 7970, but they're 28% slower than the 680 results posted.

But all heaven is really doing is measuring the tessellation performance.