Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[LordEC911]

Not really a stop-gap, more like a "That's seriously all you got? Say hello to my little friend... His big brother is going to sit at home and laugh at ya".

You are just as funny as Sky...

[Andrew LB]

GK104 is seeming more and more like a stop-gap card to keep Nvidia from hemorrhaging any more customers to AMD.

^^^ A logical assumption taking into account AMD's release of the HD7xxx cards, but it seems that even with the current performance leading card... AMD continues to loose discrete market share to nVidia.

http://www.techspot.com/news/47593-j...ket-share.html

[DilTech]

Either way is an inefficient way to hold onto customers.

I'm honestly not too happy with either company at the moment... AMD undershot and over-priced, and NVidia are going to be able to dominate it but won't release their high end because they don't even feel the need to. The blame seriously does sit on the shoulders of AMD though.

Bad time to be a consumer, but a good time to be in the business (or be an investor).

You are just as funny as Sky...

What's so funny about a company's midrange card being powerful enough to topple their oppositions high end?

[Lanek]

^^^ A logical assumption taking into account AMD's release of the HD7xxx cards, but it seems that even with the current performance leading card... AMD continues to loose discrete market share to nVidia.

http://www.techspot.com/news/47593-j...ket-share.html

This was market share for Q4 2011.. (ended on dec 2011 ) the 7xxx was not even out at this time ...

With Trinity coming, i dont think the discrete cards will say anything then in the market in the future, as AMD have a good part of his entry discrete gpu sales, who goes on APU now. ( AMD lead over Nvidia in global gpu market share ..( 25.8% vs 15.7% ).. And when both Nvidia and Intel have seen their sales down at this period, AMD was the only one to gain marketshare.


@Diltech: If we trust what Nvidia have posted : GTX680 is the high end, this is the flagship card ... Is it gk104? is it not ? lets wait the 22th for know all . ( if date is confirmed ).

[WeiT.235]

GTX680 25% faster than HD7970 in average

[Jamesrt2004]

Prove it?....

[kuroikenshi]

nice photo, a photo is not a bechmark though.

is it me or has the pcb layout changed substantially since the 500 series?

[boxleitnerb]

Why is there a paper covering the PCIe interface?
What I like about this layout is that for waterblocks there is no barrier for the waterchannels (like with the Gainward Phantom) from a wall of capacitors. They're neatly on the edge of the PCB.

[Kallenator]

Why is there a paper covering the PCIe interface?

Covering the PCB serial number =)

[Gilgamesh]

Why is there a paper covering the PCIe interface?

Perhaps to cover serial number at left of "Nvidia"logo.
With that serial, you can find final partner of that card.

[Olivon]

One week of wait remaining ... ^^

[trinibwoy]

GTX680 25% faster than HD7970 in average

That would be absolutely insane. Believe it when I see it.

[Krautmaster]

@ WeiT.235

thx, more please

25% + average would be very good for a GK104 based card.

[SubZero.it]

Sure on average...

[Dami3n]

So the new performance chip from Nvidia is 50% faster than GTX 580 in average, with half the bus and almost half die size. Impressive if true.

[Utnorris]

I hope it is true that it is 25% faster than a HD7970. That means the HD7970 will drop in price and so will current cards, by a decent amount. If you could get a HD7970 in the $400 to $450 range, then maybe the GTX580's will drop to $300. Competition is good for the consumer.

[Vardant]

Is NVIDIA bringing yet another version of AA into the game?



http://bbs.expreview.com/thread-49888-1-1.html

[-Boris-]

So the new performance chip from Nvidia is 50% faster than GTX 580 in average, with half the bandwith and less than half die size. Impressive if true.

Uhm, no? GTX 580 has 0.2% more bandwith, 192.4GB/s vs 192GB/s. And the size is far from half the size of GTX 580, it's much larger.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Is NVIDIA bringing yet another version of AA into the game?



http://bbs.expreview.com/thread-49888-1-1.html

FXAA isn't what I'd call new... I guess they'll finally officially put it into the nvidia cpanel as these cards launches and no that's no way MSAA 8x to the left.....

I would rather see SMAA being developed, FXAA isn't that great, way too blurry as you can also see in this zoomed in picture even.

[bamtan2]

it could easily be 25% faster in one benchmark. that happens all the time! meaningless statistic.

[Dami3n]

Uhm, no? GTX 580 has 0.2% more bandwith, 192.4GB/s vs 192GB/s. And the size is far from half the size of GTX 580, it's much larger.

Fixed.

[Vardant]

FXAA isn't what I'd call new...

And who says it's FXAA?

[Cold Fussion]

FXAA isn't what I'd call new... I guess they'll finally officially put it into the nvidia cpanel as these cards launches and no that's no way MSAA 8x to the left.....

I would rather see SMAA being developed, FXAA isn't that great, way too blurry as you can also see in this zoomed in picture even.

FXAA v4 fixes that.

[prava]

Lets be honest, guys. Does anybody believe that a GK104 can be much faster (say, more than a 5%) than a 7970 while having LESS power consumption? I don't believe in miracles whatsoever, and this is something that has never happened before, not accounting for failures on either side. Either way, performance/power-consumption is more or less even within the same node for both brands (provided there are no mistakes, such as GF100 or R600).

Keep in mind that Pitcairn has an efficiency similar of 7970...which means that none of them have weird efficiency and, thus, it should be kinda easy to extrapolate the max performance of gk104 based alone on such numbers. I frankly expect around 7970 numbers with...MAYBE, a tad of less power consumption. But expecting to take less power and perform 25% better...well, they say that its free to dream

[kaktus1907]

the picture is not a slide, its taken by a camera so keep in mind some lighting trick happens there.. and yes you are right there will be FXAA option in control panel but there is also another AA option as well, which starts with an delicious animal name lol..