I love my 580s!

[Fx1]

I made a mistake. I meant to say the GTX 660..

Yeh thats a pretty big mistake.

Also your comment on CPU's - The reason your CPU is fine is because CPU's havent moved much since Nehalum.

Also you wont gain 10 FPS in Crysis 3 even if you did change. There is no CPU bottleneck in that game. Its all GPU.

You have 8 threads running at 4.2ghz. Really wont make much difference.

 

[fixbsod]

Yeah, 580 is a beast. It's disappointing that there is still no true 680 successor seeing that the 680 is really the 660, and even the Titan is a crippled 680 being sold for $1,000!! Now with the Titan line itching to be the flagship it's also unclear how the 780 will fit in.

I'm thinking of SLI'ing mine tho I keep hoping nVidia might actually release something fast that's not twice the price (and crippled!)

 

[Fx1]

Yeah, 580 is a beast. It's disappointing that there is still no true 680 successor seeing that the 680 is really the 660, and even the Titan is a crippled 680 being sold for $1,000!! Now with the Titan line itching to be the flagship it's also unclear how the 780 will fit in.

I'm thinking of SLI'ing mine tho I keep hoping nVidia might actually release something fast that's not twice the price (and crippled!)

In one generation the 580 has become a £160 GPU callled the 660.

How can you say the 680 isnt a real successor?

Also how can a Titan be a crippled 680?

What you been smoking

 

[lavaheadache]

Yeah, 580 is a beast. It's disappointing that there is still no true 680 successor seeing that the 680 is really the 660, and even the Titan is a crippled 680 being sold for $1,000!! Now with the Titan line itching to be the flagship it's also unclear how the 780 will fit in.

I'm thinking of SLI'ing mine tho I keep hoping nVidia might actually release something fast that's not twice the price (and crippled!)

good post :thumbsup:

 

[Carfax83]

Also your comment on CPU's - The reason your CPU is fine is because CPU's havent moved much since Nehalum.

You have 8 threads running at 4.2ghz. Really wont make much difference.

CPUs architecture changes have never really resulted in large performance increases, due to the nature of their workload which tends to be more serial in nature compared to the parallel nature of the GPU.

The improvement from the P4 to Conroe was on average 20%, with certain workloads seeing improvements of up to 30% and even 40% better IPC.

Nehalem to Ivy Bridge is approximately 20% better IPC (with greater improvements for SIMD optimized apps), but I was also counting on the higher clock speed enhancement as well.

Most of my improvement would be in the minimum frame rate. I would expect at least a 5 FPS improvement in minimum, and perhaps a 2 or 3 in maximum frame rate.

At any rate, I have no intention of upgrading to Ivy bridge. I'm jumping on Haswell, which should provide me with approximately 30% faster IPC over Nehalem.

Also you wont gain 10 FPS in Crysis 3 even if you did change. There is no CPU bottleneck in that game. Its all GPU.

How many times are you going to repeat the same lie over and over again that I said I was going to gain 10 FPS?

Also, Crysis 3 is very demanding on the CPU, and is in fact one of the few games that can actually utilize a hexcore processor. Even at VHQ @ 1080p, the CPU makes a tremendous difference to performance:

 

[Carfax83]

Yeah, 580 is a beast. It's disappointing that there is still no true 680 successor seeing that the 680 is really the 660, and even the Titan is a crippled 680 being sold for $1,000!! Now with the Titan line itching to be the flagship it's also unclear how the 780 will fit in.

I'm thinking of SLI'ing mine tho I keep hoping nVidia might actually release something fast that's not twice the price (and crippled!)

Yeah, I'm glad I decided not to get the 680. Not enough of a performance increase from my current set up to be worth it. The Titan looks nice though it's way too expensive.

I'll see what the GTX 780 brings before I decide to upgrade my GPUs..

 

[fixbsod]

Titan was set to be the true 680, however nVidia decided that they had such a large enough lead they could (t)roll out what was to be their 660 and call it the 680. The true 680 became the Titan. However, Titan is TDP limited (there's the crippling) and is also $1,000 MSRP vs $499 on the 580. I smoke the truth my son. The Titan is still a beast, there's no denying that, fastest single GPU card with some of the lowest frame latencies (dare I say the lowest?). I would be interested if there wasn't that insane MSRP.

In one generation the 580 has become a £160 GPU callled the 660.

How can you say the 680 isnt a real successor?

Also how can a Titan be a crippled 680?

What you been smoking