nVidia 'Kepler' GeForce GTX 680 Reviews

[highoctane]

I'm hearing whisperings from the AMD camp... They don't sound scared.

Of course, what other whisperings would be coming from the competition, "time to close up shop they beat us, hug me"...

[GoldenTiger]

of course, what other whisperings would be coming from the competition, "time to close up shop they beat us, hug me"...

lol....

[Russian]

Of course, what other whisperings would be coming from the competition, "time to close up shop they beat us, hug me"...

Ok, I got a hearty laugh out of that one.

Trust me, when I can share more details I will. THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW! ( I hope )

[jjj]

@ Russian and/or SKYMTL: Any clue how the quality (not speed) of the video transcoding is? I got to check all the reviews out there ,see if anyone looked at quality too but kinda lazy

[Russian]

@ Russian and/or SKYMTL: Any clue how the quality (not speed) of the video transcoding is? I got to check all the reviews out there ,see if anyone looked at quality too but kinda lazy

I haven't looked in-depth into the quality, but it is interesting because with the only provided software we were given there isn't much flexibility with what you can do when it comes to GPU hardware acceleration. CPU based actually lets you pick between quality and performance while GPU accelerated does not. I think that we'll need to get some more software available before we'll be able to test this appropriately.

[jjj]

I haven't looked in-depth into the quality, but it is interesting because with the only provided software we were given there isn't much flexibility with what you can do when it comes to GPU hardware acceleration. CPU based actually lets you pick between quality and performance while GPU accelerated does not. I think that we'll need to get some more software available before we'll be able to test this appropriately.

Thanks for the answer.

[Macadamia]

I'm hearing whisperings from the AMD camp... They don't sound scared.

Welp, because if anything, <$400's where all the money's at after the halo product.
And GK104 serves to highlight Tahiti's issues more than GCN's adaptability and perf/mm (+W) in general.

Keep in mind that the top AMD chip hasn't been the epitome of efficiency (Barts vs Cayman, Pitcairn vs Tahiti), and a lot of front-end bottlenecks present at the performance level of Tahiti/GK104, are much less present at even the GTX580/Pitcairn level. And GK106, if there is one, still isn't ready.

As for Tahiti... AMD's launching a Ghz edition, EOLing the old stuff (?) and probably pricecutting it $50.
Not sure if they can drive the power usage down with lower voltage, but they sure should start using crappier PCBs like nVidia is doing now :v

[UrbanSmooth]

crappier PCBs like nVidia is doing now :v

Please expound upon your statement here.

[Macadamia]

a GF114 selling for $220 prolly has better build than what's on the GK104 now.
http://www.expreview.com/img/review/...ga560Ti_05.jpg

Not that it's an attack on nVidia- in fact if anything, AMD should just do the same thing and cheapen up on official PCBs.



After all nobody burned their 570 after some mayhem-oops

[antiacid]

has anyone got a quick link to a review featuring a 680 vs 5970 for 2560x1600 in a few different games? Bonus points for overclocking either one of those

[BeepBeep2]

Please expound upon your statement here.

NVIDIA is using cheaper PCB components to save costs.

[SKYMTL]

I'm hearing whisperings from the AMD camp... They don't sound scared.

I wouldn't say scared at all.

However, they're in a bit of a panic right now for one simple reason: they didn't have an alternate pricing strategy. The expectation was that the GTX 680 would continue the course set by the HD 7970: ie receive a price ~$600 - $625 mark.

[SKYMTL]

@ Russian and/or SKYMTL: Any clue how the quality (not speed) of the video transcoding is? I got to check all the reviews out there ,see if anyone looked at quality too but kinda lazy

The quality with the included app is ok. On the positive side, MediaCoder fully supports the GTX 680 if you wanted more control over transcoding / encoding.

[SKYMTL]

NVIDIA is using cheaper PCB components to save costs.

Have you not seen the junk some of AMD's board partners are putting on some of their "reference" cards? Particularly the HD 7950. It ain't pretty....

[eric66]

I wouldn't say scared at all.

However, they're in a bit of a panic right now for one simple reason: they didn't have an alternate pricing strategy. The expectation was that the GTX 680 would continue the course set by the HD 7970: ie receive a price ~$600 - $625 mark.

well they will have hard time with previous customers if they lower current prices lol

[Russian]

I wouldn't say scared at all.

However, they're in a bit of a panic right now for one simple reason: they didn't have an alternate pricing strategy. The expectation was that the GTX 680 would continue the course set by the HD 7970: ie receive a price ~$600 - $625 mark.

Hehe, I think it would've been absolutely ridiculous for AMD to not have seen this coming...

[Chrono Detector]

I wonder how did NVIDIA pull such nice performance on a 256 bit memory bus, I wonder how faster GK110 will perform.

[SKYMTL]

Hehe, I think it would've been absolutely ridiculous for AMD to not have seen this coming...

The architecture, yes. The price, no.

[jaredpace]

Out of the last 5 Nvidia flagship GPUs, the 680 is most underwhelming. 8800/9800/280/285/480/580 all handily beat AMD. Why is the 680 losing in some benchmarks?

[BeepBeep2]

Have you not seen the junk some of AMD's board partners are putting on some of their "reference" cards? Particularly the HD 7950. It ain't pretty....

Are you talking,
"reference"
as in
"the PCB with AMD logo silkscreened and waterblocks are designed for"
or as in
"our PCB is almost the same layout as the reference with cheap components"?

Most of the time, AMD reference PCBs are far overkill...

[GoldenTiger]

Are you talking,
"reference"
as in
"the PCB with AMD logo silkscreened and waterblocks are designed for"
or as in
"our PCB is almost the same layout as the reference with cheap components"?

Most of the time, AMD reference PCBs are far overkill...

One could assume the latter, almost surely.

[Generic user #2]

Out of the last 5 Nvidia flagship GPUs, the 680 is most underwhelming. 8800/9800/280/285/480/580 all handily beat AMD. Why is the 680 losing in some benchmarks?

doesn't the 680 use less power than those last 2-3 cards?

also, the 680 is the marketing department's flagship card, not the engineering department's flagship card.

[UrbanSmooth]

the 680 is the marketing department's flagship card, not the engineering department's flagship card.

Quote of the year here regarding the GTX 680.

Bravo to you, sir.

[Russian]

The architecture, yes. The price, no.

Actually, both. Even though they knew kepler was coming, they HAD to know what kind of performance it had.

You and I both know how AMD could find that info out.

[Tenknics]

Have there been any reviews with Adobe Premiere PRO benchmarks? The rendering engine is GPU powered by cuda based cards only. The amount of ram and # of cuda cores directly effect the performance. CUrious to see how the "tripling" of the cores scales the performance in Premiere's Mercury Playback Engine..