Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[Chrono Detector]

Seen that chart already, if it is legit, too little VRAM, again.

[iMacmatician]

huum posted allready the 2Fev 2012 here when Lenzfire have release this article and, a second time when Expreview have release the article based on Lenzfire article yesterday, closely followed by Fudzilla who have repost the Expreview article.

If we continue to repost what have allready been posted and discussed for 4 days allready ...

The LenzFire report already seems like the Southern Islands XDR2 rumor in terms of pervasiveness and versatility of reposting.

[SabreWulf69]

My bad...

[Lanek]

My bad...

Not your fault, with all the post and noise in this threads.

[Andrea deluxe]

Italian nvidia pr?

http://www.nvidia.it/page/press_room.html

[jam2k]

GK110 tapes out at last - Big Kepler is big, long cat is longer

[Pantsu]

Nvidia better hope GK104 is good if their big chip is coming late this year. By that time AMD will be close to bringing their refresh for 7000 series.

[Vardant]

Some more news.

The GTX 680 or it's naming equivalent(name hasn't been set in stone yet), will be based on GK104. You heard it right, they want to fight AMD high-end only with the GK104 chip. But don't worry, bigger things are still coming.

This means, that the card, that comes in April will be lower clocked, we're talking 900-950MHz, performance between 7950 and 7970 and will be after all priced at $299.

The last bit of info reveals answer to Eyefinity, which should not surprise anyone.

[Handrox]

Some more news.

The GTX 680 or it's naming equivalent(name hasn't been set in stone yet), will be based on GK104. You heard it right, they want to fight AMD high-end only with the GK104 chip. But don't worry, bigger things are still coming.

This means, that the card, that comes in April will be lower clocked, we're talking 900-950MHz, performance between 7950 and 7970 and will be after all priced at $299.

The last bit of info reveals answer to Eyefinity, which should not surprise anyone.

what is the source of this?

[zalbard]

The GTX 680 or it's naming equivalent(name hasn't been set in stone yet), will be based on GK104. You heard it right, they want to fight AMD high-end only with the GK104 chip. But don't worry, bigger things are still coming.

It's not if but when that bothers me in this case.
Pretty disappointed by what I'm hearing. It's Fermi all over again, with even longer delays...

[GoldenTiger]

Some more news.

The GTX 680 or it's naming equivalent(name hasn't been set in stone yet), will be based on GK104. You heard it right, they want to fight AMD high-end only with the GK104 chip. But don't worry, bigger things are still coming.

This means, that the card, that comes in April will be lower clocked, we're talking 900-950MHz, performance between 7950 and 7970 and will be after all priced at $299.

The last bit of info reveals answer to Eyefinity, which should not surprise anyone.

That would be nice!

[aussie-revhead]

Do you really think nvidia can produce a vid card for $299 that AMD has to charge $550 for? Or is AMD charging this because they can (against the gtx580 RRP)? If this is the case how could they announce a 50% price cut to stay competitive? Or will they then just hang in there until the next refresh?

[Lanek]

It's not if but when that bothers me in this case.
Pretty disappointed by what I'm hearing. It's Fermi all over again, with even longer delays...

If vardant is right, this can mean Charlie last article about GK110 who have been just only tapped out can be right too. and you will not see it before Q3, end of Q3. ( Gk100 abandonned ? ). ( ofc i will wait real official infos, i cant say i trust anyone today )

The problem i see there is about performance of GK104, I really doubt Nvidia will price it 300$ if the card was enough for fight with 7950 ( in cherrypicked res, game, settings ).. Yes in some games the 7970 is just upper of the 580 (and popular games, i think to BF3 or Dirt ), in some it goes too a lot better, if AMD can pull some performance gain out of a driver in thoses games.. it will start to be really hard for Nvidia, if they dont have the high end.

I dont know why, perf of a bieffed GK104 around the 580 can looks right, so let say more or less 7950 performance ( 7950 is a bit faster, and i dont even speak about OC models, but it is not important yet )... this will put a point to this price: 7970-500$, 7950-400$, GK104-300$ ?

Thoses are performance card, and price dont have to be at 450+ , but if the GK104 is really between 7950-7970, they will fight in price with the 7950.. so 350-375-400$ .. If the point is they dont have an high end card yet, the 300$ can be too a solution, for win on "price for perf ", (and we know thoses middle range cards sell the more ).. or give a better light on this card. But i dont see a card with a so low price, between 7950 and 7970..

We cant say Nvidia have been an angel when it come to pricing his cards so, even more if they have not high end for sell, why dont put it close of the 7950price, and play the price war if needed.

About naming scheme, ( something who make me really doubt about this type of info ), marketing wise it will be completely nuts to call it GTX680, whatever is the performance, if it dont end faster, and high end should coming then, call it 6600TI and play the wait game for high end.

(again i respond to the vardant post, i dont say i trust any info yet, i mean: this + charlie post is a little bit too much suspect when they come at the same time, could be just noise. )

[Pantsu]

More likely it's somewhere around GTX580 or 7950 and priced close to 400$. If GTX 580 is really EOL like some claim, GK104 is the only thing that can replace it. Hoping for 7970 performance and 300$ price is absurd, that's simply not the way the market works, even 4800 wasn't that good of a deal. Of course if the performance is only close to 580 it might end up with a 300$ price tag if we're lucky. I think Nvidia have a good spot between 7870 and 7950 if the estimations about 7870 price and perf are true. They could price GK104 between 300-400 and AMD would have no rival there.

[flopper]

It's not if but when that bothers me in this case.
Pretty disappointed by what I'm hearing. It's Fermi all over again, with even longer delays...

Nvidia always had issues with design/manufacturing, 28nm and smaller will produce more of the same unless they fix the engineering department.

[Cold Fussion]

It's not if but when that bothers me in this case.
Pretty disappointed by what I'm hearing. It's Fermi all over again, with even longer delays...

How can it be delayed when there has been nothing on nvidia on when it is to be released? Hell we don't even know what Kepler is.

[japamd]

Some more news.

The GTX 680 or it's naming equivalent(name hasn't been set in stone yet), will be based on GK104. You heard it right, they want to fight AMD high-end only with the GK104 chip. But don't worry, bigger things are still coming.

This means, that the card, that comes in April will be lower clocked, we're talking 900-950MHz, performance between 7950 and 7970 and will be after all priced at $299.

The last bit of info reveals answer to Eyefinity, which should not surprise anyone.

That performance level with that price is really great news, but if the performance is really between 7950 and 7970 then it's almost a GTX 580, right?

Will NVIDIA kill its current flagship card without releasing her big dog?

Though I really doubt they're going to price it at 299 bucks.

[zalbard]

How can it be delayed when there has been nothing on nvidia on when it is to be released? Hell we don't even know what Kepler is.

Who cares about the wording. It is late. Late to the market, late to beat the competition. It's been 15 months since GTX 580 release, and it's going to be 20 months in Q3.

Also, Nvidia isn't known for great price-performance. While GK104 may compete with 7950, it will be quite expensive if so, with GTX 580 also staying expensive (their high-end...), 7950/70 staying expensive, and 7990 being insanely expensive. And this may last till Q3 thanks to Nvidia...

[highoctane]

Even if they where releasing the new cards today it would not greatly affect pricing, if they are faster they will be more expensive than the competing products on the high end. All we would have is expensive flagship cards from both camps without a price war, at the high end they simply don't do price wars there.

Midrange is another story, probably anything from $150-$200 is going to be the meat and potatoes of the lineup and where the line in the sand is drawn.

EDIT: If anything AMD has finally given Nvidia the market pricing ranges they would prefer to be in at the high end again, Nvidia will simply follow suit in pushing the price ceiling back up where it was in the g80 days.

[Manicdan]

theres alot that we might not be able to see in the background
if nvidia launches at a high price, amd would not lower unless they see stock start piling up. what the competition is doing is not their main reason for pricing, its their own supply and demand. naturally having more cards in the high end does mean they will probably sell less, but for all we know they will still sell every card at the high price, even with competition out.

if nvidia comes out and sets their prices low, it could be because they believed they couldnt clear their stock at the higher prices, which might be due to having great supply quantities. or they are doing it knowing they earn less per card, but also undermine the competition and forcing them to earn less per card.

[Vardant]

[Lanek]

About it..
http://translate.google.com/translat...icherer-quelle

Well read the article too, as it is a good read coming from them, knowing they have too launch rumored spec thoses last months.

[AliG]

I really hope the 256 bit membus isn't true, I don't see GK104 standing a chance against the 7970 at higher resolutions

[japamd]

Hmm, how long 'till some fake slides start floating around?

PS: wait, let's get started

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7...ld68ayfkmh.jpg

PS: don't get mad, jk :P

[Manicdan]

only 8.26" long, pff. i need a card atleast 10" before i can get any enjoyment out of it.