OFFICIAL KEPLER "GTX680" Reviews

[Cookie Monster]

Just wait for the AT benches

 

[Imouto]

3:30' left

 

[Ieat]

So you read their review?

What's your conclusion, do you agree with their conclusion?

Do you think it's good that an "unbias" reviewer uses 3/4 of their benches products designed by TWIMTBP? What would you say if reviewers started to use mostly AMD Evolved games only? You would conclude as any reasonable person would, there's obvious bias.

Is there a larger number of games that favor nvidia? Sure. Is the review particularly good. No. But I just found it amusing the way you rammed through the article as fast as possible to look for what you wanted. Especially in light of them basically blasting nvidia for the first 2 pages of the review.

 

[SolMiester]

:biggrin:

"The performance really is quite amazing and you can see that at times it has no issues competing with the dual GPU Radeon HD 6990 video card from AMD."

It helps when 3/4 of the bench suite are TWIMTBP games. I can see how they would conclude as such..

Hanky, somebody pass the tissues!...:biggrin:

 

[Ieat]

Regardless of whatever they are claiming now, TT is historically known as pro-NV. See, e.g., their GTS 450 review: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...e-GTS-450-Cyclone-1GB-Review-Fishy-conclusion

And TT toes the line when it comes to using NV-approved benches.

Well I could bring up the [H] review of the HD 7770 as fishy as hell and you seem to view them as the pinnacle of legit. You know where they shower praise on the HD 7770 with superlatives like perfect for 1080p and amazing even though its slower even overclocked then the gtx 560 ti and 6870 they compare it to. Also many of their articles only test 3 or 4 games and come to conclusions from that. That is just lazy.

 

[-Slacker-]

The power figures in the tweaktown review have got to be wrong ... it would eat more power than the gtx480 while being smaller by ~230mm^2.

The anandtech review can come out soon enough.

edit: Looks like they didn't do an overclock test either...

 

[Cookie Monster]

Just read the first page of the TT review, they used old drivers (300.83) and did the review with no white paper or any sort of documentation from nVIDIA. Wonder why they were left out in the cold? I mean look at their benchmark suite..

 

[Grooveriding]

You can buy them on ncix. evga is $499

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69799

Want to see reviews first, 1600P performance with AA is looking like it may be dismal.

 

[blastingcap]

Well I could bring up the [H] review of the HD 7770 as fishy as hell and you seem to view them as the pinnacle of legit. You know where they shower praise on the HD 7770 with superlatives like perfect for 1080p and amazing even though its slower even overclocked then the gtx 560 ti and 6870 they compare it too. Also many of their articles only test 3 or 4 games and come to conclusions from that. That is just lazy.

I don't pay much attention to ANY review site summaries that anyone other than Ryan here at Anandtech writes. I just go for the fps-vs-time graphs, which [H], HWC, HWH, and a few others provide. I go to Anandtech for technical stuff and conclusion. [H] is less than enlightening due to their crappy writing and often weird/inconsistent medals. But their time series I do trust.

Just read the first page of the TT review, they used old drivers (300.83) and did the review with no white paper or any sort of documentation from nVIDIA. Wonder why they were left out in the cold? I mean look at their benchmark suite..

Drivers might explain a few things, though that wattage still looks totally at odds with what Tom's reported.

 

[amenx]

206 vs 127 watts idle? 456 vs 389 load? Even if the PSU weren't that efficient, that's still a major difference in the wrong direction. Seriously? Is TT wrong or is THG is wrong; the are complete opposites as far as perf-per-watt.

Could be a driver issue with the card stuck in 3d mode showing higher than usual readings at idle. Other reviews will clear that up hopefully.

 

[Zebo]

Well I could bring up the [H] review of the HD 7770 as fishy as hell and you seem to view them as the pinnacle of legit. You know where they shower praise on the HD 7770 with superlatives like perfect for 1080p and amazing even though its slower even overclocked then the gtx 560 ti and 6870 they compare it to. Also many of their articles only test 3 or 4 games and come to conclusions from that. That is just lazy.

I think you might want to read it again they basically dog it

"It is difficult to ignore that the GIGABYTE GV-777OC-1GD was slower than both the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti in every test we performed."

 

[Cookie Monster]

There are leaked guru3d/pcper benchmark graphs also.

 

[Zebo]

You can buy them on ncix. evga is $499

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69799

Want to see reviews first, 1600P performance with AA is looking like it may be dismal.

Canadians can I can't. I'm buying ASAP because these are going to be $600 before weeks out and I cant even run it until they make a water block. Will sit on shelf like a commodity.

 

[Grooveriding]

Canadians can I can't. I'm buying ASAP because these are going to be $600 before weeks out and I cant even run it until they make a water block. Will sit on shelf like a commodity.

If they can deliver for my res I am buying them asap. If you check the stock counts of the models they have in stock there is next to nothing for a new launch. ( the evga shows 6 in stock)

These will likely sell out and stay sold out until they can make more. That or get ripped off by ebay resellers.

 

[Keysplayr]

First Review is up. Tweaktown beats all LOL.

 

[Zebo]

There are leaked guru3d/pcper benchmark graphs also.

Link please?

 

[Quantos]

If they can deliver for my res I am buying them asap. If you check the stock counts of the models they have in stock there is next to nothing for a new launch. ( the evga shows 6 in stock)

These will likely sell out and stay sold out until they can make more. That or get ripped off by ebay resellers.

Well there's over 10 MSI and over 20 Zotacs.

First Review is up. Tweaktown beats all LOL.

Rofl it just seems like TT got screwed over by Nvidia and decided to guess the NDA lift!

 

[blastingcap]

Other than wanting to get rid of my current half-arsed Eyefinity setup, I am in no rush to upgrade. And it seems like the 680 may not do so well at high res or with AA/AF, so I wanna see more reviews before pulling the trigger, anyway.

 

[Keysplayr]

Link please?

It's in the OP Zeebz.

 

[Jacky60]

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/46...b_reference_card_video_card_review/index.html

Sorry if this has already been posted.

 

[Zebo]

It's in the OP Zeebz.

No meant the guru and pcper links.

 

[Lepton87]

Review without 2560 MSAA/AF is useless, it looks like at that settings 680 lead will diminish to irrelevant and after ocing both it will be slower. Even if its GPU oc as all as 7970 it won't bring the same performance increases due to being bandwidth bottleneck. It loses a hell of a lot more performance by going from 1080p to 1600p than 7970.

 

[Zebo]

Review without 2560 MSAA/AF is useless, it looks like at that settings 680 lead will diminish to irrelevant and after ocing both it will be slower. Even if its GPU oc as all as 7970 it won't bring the same performance increases due to being bandwidth bottleneck. It looses a hell of a lot more performance by going from 1080p to 1600p than 7970.

For you maybe. The most popular monitor used by gamers is 19x10 followed by 19x12.

 

[rusina]

According to Tweaktown Geforce GTX 680 consumes more power on load than Radeon HD 6990. Then they card noise by placing microphone 2cm away from fan..

 

[rusina]

Review without 2560 MSAA/AF is useless, it looks like at that settings 680 lead will diminish to irrelevant and after ocing both it will be slower. Even if its GPU oc as all as 7970 it won't bring the same performance increases due to being bandwidth bottleneck. It loses a hell of a lot more performance by going from 1080p to 1600p than 7970.

Of course when you overclock memory..you'll get bigger increase with GTX 680