Revisiting the GTX 680

[mohit9206]

Although this is old, it would certainly make for an interesting discussion. The performance is same as 1050Ti.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1588-geforce-gtx-680-revisit/

 

[SKORPI0]

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-680-vs-GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti

 

[Borealis7]

i had a ZOTAC GTX680 up until a year ago. it died and took my seasonic PSU with it
nevertheless, i loved it. it performed great at 1080p and above 60FPS in 90% of games i played which are not AAA shooters.
couldn't overclock for sh*t though...nVidia turbo and locking down voltage and all that.

 

[nurturedhate]

People could have bought a 7950 in the fall of 2013 for under $150. Overclock it a little and you're at 1050ti performance for the same price 3 years earlier. This just makes me sad.

 

[Spjut]

I'm positively surprised seeing the GTX 580 delivering playable performance, I'd have thought the VRAM alone would make it a no-go for modern games

I'd like to see some DX12 and Vulkan tests too though

 

[LTC8K6]

But the 1050ti is a paltry 75W, and has far less resources (1536/128/32 vs 768/48/32), and what happened to NV crippling older cards?

 

[mohit9206]

People could have bought a 7950 in the fall of 2013 for under $150. Overclock it a little and you're at 1050ti performance for the same price 3 years earlier. This just makes me sad.

What is even sadder is people had to pay $1000 for 1080 or $400 for rx480 during mining craze just to play games. Or people having to pay $100 for 8gb stick of ram

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Gaming graphics upgrades has slowed down a lot from that first gen 28nm crowd of cards and the archs from Kepler and Tahiti have been heavily moddied but not completely replaced, making those cards viable entry level options even today.

My old 7950 would OC to 1200mhz core on stock voltage no problem (stock was 925mhz). Never before and never since have I encountered a videocard that left so much overhead on the table.

Biggest limiting factor on those cards would be the RAM, but it's doubtful anyone would play anything at settings where you would need more than 2/3GB of RAM with those cards.

 

[Dribble]

I'm positively surprised seeing the GTX 580 delivering playable performance, I'd have thought the VRAM alone would make it a no-go for modern games

I'd like to see some DX12 and Vulkan tests too though

One of the biggest gaming markets is for people with laptops, and they all have underpowered gpu's - if you release a new game it still needs to run on them. A 580 is still faster then many of them. I've said many times people in this forum live in a 4k ivory tower - the rest of the world seems to game just fine on lesser hardware.

 

[mohit9206]

One of the biggest gaming markets is for people with laptops, and they all have underpowered gpu's - if you release a new game it still needs to run on them. A 580 is still faster then many of them. I've said many times people in this forum live in a 4k ivory tower - the rest of the world seems to game just fine on lesser hardware.

Most gaming laptops today have either 1050, 1050ti, 1060 or 1070 all of which are faster than gtx 580. Even last gen mobile cards like 980m and 970m ought to be faster.