When will Nvidia's $250-$300 6xx card be out?

[poohbear]

Hey all,

all these $400+ video cards are lovely, but they're not exactly priced to be mid range or affordable to the avg user.

When will their $250-$300 6xx cards be available? Any word on them? Thanks in advance!

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Q3 I believe

 

[tviceman]

My best guess is the end of June we will get the gtx560. It will likely be a third GK104 based card, with 1152 enabled cuda cores and a 192-bit memory interface (1.5 gigs vram). Performance should end up somewhere between a an hd7870 and an hd7950.

I think it would be great if Nvidia releases a fourth GK104 sku with the same 1152 cuda cores, but with all the memory controllers enabled (2 gigs vram) and label it the gtx560ti. But that is not what the rumors have been saying.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Do they have a third gk104 or is the next card gk107?

 

[althaz]

I'm not sure where I read it, but I'm sure that all the speculation is Q3 this year (ie: too far away for me to wait).

 

[Silverforce11]

Looks like gtx660ti = further cut gk104 (with the same crap pcb as gtx670 ref, they could sell it at $250 and still make heaps of $$)
gtx660 = gk106 (less than half a gk104 in specs, rumored to be very late)

gk107 is mobile i think?

 

[Axon]

Yes, I've also heard six months or so from now. Q3ish.

 

[poohbear]

My best guess is the end of June we will get the gtx560. It will likely be a third GK104 based card, with 1152 enabled cuda cores and a 192-bit memory interface (1.5 gigs vram). Performance should end up somewhere between a an hd7870 and an hd7950.

I think it would be great if Nvidia releases a fourth GK104 sku with the same 1152 cuda cores, but with all the memory controllers enabled (2 gigs vram) and label it the gtx560ti. But that is not what the rumors have been saying.

do u mean gtx 660? gtx 560 sounds like last gen, no?

Q3 would be September at the earliest, damn why so far out? So our only choices are the $400+ cards?

 

[KompuKare]

Hm, if people are that interested in the 660TI performance, could someone who has a 670 not do a theoretical 3dmark or heaven benchmark?

Downclock the memory to 192-bit rate. That is, assuming the 660TI runs GDDR5 at 1500Mhz (6000Mhz), running the memory at 1125MHz is 75% should perform similar to 192-bit. Same for the core. Might yield some interesting results. GK104 seems to be rather bandwidth starved so running at 3/4 should make a big difference. Also, while the expected 660TI performance must be aiming to beat pitcairn (Nvidia have had the luxury of knowing the 7850/7870 performance for months now), an other interesting thing would be someone clocking the memory at 1125 and their core as high as possible to see how such a card might compete with an overclocked pitcairn.

Seems Nvidia will be confusing unsuspecting customers again with those two 660s: the 660TI should perform as expected but the GK106 based 660 (no-TI) may be far slower. Nvidia marketing sure know to confuse things (although the GT 640s based on GK107 and GF116 must be a new world record).

EDIT: haven't paid that much attention to the way Kepler has to be overclocked. Is it even possible to dial down the memory like that while keeping the core at a different speed?