Quote Originally Posted by minpayne View Post
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-346223-1-1.html

RE: GTX680 (not sure if this is the final model number)

May be seen as early as in February (not paper launch but retail), as Mr Huang doesn't like the HD7970 to shine most in the 28nm era.

The performance would be around the same as the HD7970, depending on the drivers.

So far the core clock is at 780MHz, with 2GB vram.

Source is from an AIC manufacturer, saying that even the retail packages are being printed now.
Well, if this is true, I'll go ahead and say this is probably no Kepler, but a Fermi derivative, as a stop gap solution. Might even be something on 40nm and not 28nm...