Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[BeepBeep2]

Kepler made nVidia turn into a charity organization, that will offer you more performance for less money and is not interested in profits or revenue. It made them love price wars too! So much, that for the first time in many years, they are the ones starting it! (Or do we count the GTX460 here? )

/sarcasm

WELL, they are (probably) offering a card equal to superior to HD 7970 in stock performance with better power consumption, using a smaller die and cheaper PCB components for $50 less. They are probably making the same profit margins as AMD with HD 7970 @ $550 that GTX 680 is making @ $500.

That said, if almost every review turns in their favor, they can almost completely stop sales for the two months that AMD realistically needs to create a price cut. Of course, the select fanboys will still buy it...or it will be close in performance terms and nobody will care either way. I think NVIDIA's goal here is to grab all of the top end market share, and in the end generate more profit. I think it is good for the AIBs too.

[xVeinx]

On the other side, it seems neither company is able to make a powerful GPGPU AND keep it power efficient at the same time while it is used for it's original purpose: gaming.

It will be some time before either AMD, Nvidia, or Intel reach a graphics core with the level of granularity/response in it's power gating to make it as power efficient as some of us can dream up. GPGPU assumes that the majority of the related features will be used while optimized for high computational throughput. Everything has tradeoffs.

[UrbanSmooth]

any reviews leaked yet?

Several have been leaked already and then pulled. The GTX 680 looks to do about 15-20% better on average than the 7970 (current drivers not withstanding). HOWEVER, this is all early information, wait for the big guns (Guru3D, [H], etc.) to release their official in-depth reviews on EVERYTHING--power consumption, temps, FPS, overclockability, performance per watts, etc, etc.

GO GO GREEN TEAM!!

And go Red Team to keep things competitive.

[Russian]

Several have been leaked already and then pulled. The GTX 680 looks to do about 15-20% better on average than the 7970 (current drivers not withstanding). HOWEVER, this is all early information, wait for the big guns (Guru3D, [H], etc.) to release their official in-depth reviews on EVERYTHING--power consumption, temps, FPS, overclockability, performance per watts, etc, etc.

GO GO GREEN TEAM!!

And go Red Team to keep things competitive.

I really tried to keep this review short, but holy crap its ridiculously long. WHY O WHY VIDEOCARD GODS?!?

We even broke the review in two... and its STILL huge.

[tbone8ty]

I bet the biggest clue will be the prices of the 7970's on Newegg.com after midnight or whenever they refresh their prices tonight.
As of now the prices are still the same.

However, did buy a lot of NVDA stock today at $14.50.
Bet it won't be long b4 they are back up to the $16's.

lol you bought nvidia stock

[Natalia]

On average, how much later does the x90 version of cards arrive? Like 4 months?

[Andrew LB]

However, did buy a lot of NVDA stock today at $14.50.
Bet it won't be long b4 they are back up to the $16's.

I'd be really careful playing around with any short term holding of tech stocks in this economy. NVDA is definitely one of the safer choices due to their excellent earnings these past 12 months as well as the low amount of cash flow from questionable sources (padding their earnings numbers with asset sales, stock options, etc). Give this a read.

[Andrew LB]

lol you bought nvidia stock

It was a better buy than going with AMD's stock, especially after they were rated 11th of the most likely 20 tech stocks to drop.

[tbone8ty]

It was a better buy than going with AMD's stock, especially after they were rated 11th of the most likely 20 tech stocks to drop.

its not the best idea to buy stock when their about to release a new product....especially nvidia right now

on the other hand Amd was a great buy in October of 2011 when I bought at ~$4.50


regardless any leaks yet? I got one for you

http://pcper.com/files/review/2012-03-21/3dm11-x.jpg

[cold2010]

http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...postcount=7511

[GoldenTiger]

Oh my...! Thanks cold2010!

[Morgoth]

Weee, Here's hoping that 3770K+ 1 GTX680 underwater can beat my old i7 950+SLI GTX480s



Otherwise...

I'll have to buy two...

[eric66]

something wrong with skyrim test amd is much faster than nvidia in that game

[cold2010]

[highoctane]

Performance is looking great once again, not a bad choice at all if you where in the market for a ~$500 video card.

[eric66]

Performance is looking great once again, not a bad choice at all if you where in the market for a ~$500 video card.

correct this card is much better deal than 7970 (at least it looks like that from early reviews)

[kromosto]

Skyrim min 28 to max 229 i think what we see is gpu boost.

And min fps is lower then 7970 in metro and batman is because physxs ???

[Andrew LB]

its not the best idea to buy stock when their about to release a new product....especially nvidia right now

And that's exactly why I told him to be careful. The only tech stocks that I own right now are Apple (bought at $19/share in 2004 when I heard they were moving to Intel), Intel, and some assorted penny stocks. Rest is in mutual funds and gold...
And on that note... to those of you who invest: The past few months I've been getting really odd feelings about this so-called "economic recovery". The exact same feeling I got back in 2008 just before the market tanked. The root cause of this anxiety lies in what the FED has been doing these past 3 years. Through quantitative easement, the federal reserve has almost doubled the amount of physical currency in circulation and even though they deny it... have been monetizing the national debt. And because the FED and White House have been using every possible method to hold off the inflation which must eventually occur in order to put things back in order.... it just gives me the feeling that it's going to cause hyper-inflation. Not quite pre-WW2 Germany inflation.... but worse than Jimmy Carter inflation.

Obama wants to redistribute the wealth. Well.... through hyper-inflation, any accumulated wealth will just get wiped out. Guess i should move more towards gold.

on the other hand Amd was a great buy in October of 2011 when I bought at ~$4.50

Yep. Good price.

regardless any leaks yet? I got one for you

Nice. I've also been noticing that the more leaked reviews I see, the more it confirms that the GTX 680 does just fine at high resolution with AA/AF.

[GoldenTiger]

Nice. I've also been noticing that the more leaked reviews I see, the more it confirms that the GTX 680 does just fine at high resolution with AA/AF.

But... but... I thought people were insisting (and I mean *INSISTING* on other sites, here people had a good discussion) that the GTX 680 was a sucker because of 2gb VRAM? .

[Russian]

You guys really can't wait, can you?

[GoldenTiger]

You guys really can't wait, can you?

But it's Christmas---I mean, new video card day...

[vinta]

But... but... I thought people were insisting (and I mean *INSISTING* on other sites, here people had a good discussion) that the GTX 680 was a sucker because of 2gb VRAM? .

[The Jesus]

QUICK! Everyone sell your 7900 cards before the value drops even more! Oh wait, who cares if it does what you need? Well played Nvidia (except GPGPU, no longer folding kings I guess)

(although, if you're within return times, get the price drop, lol)

[cold2010]

http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...postcount=7521

[bill_d]

QUICK! Everyone sell your 7900 cards before the value drops even more! Oh wait, who cares if it does what you need? Well played Nvidia (except GPGPU, no longer folding kings I guess)

(although, if you're within return times, get the price drop, lol)

no thanks this thing looks so far to be running out of gas at 2560x1600