Kepler Nvidia GeForce GTX 780

[Zoran]

Will it outperform HD 7870 for perf/watt? I think it will be close one. I dont think that Kepler archidecture is far better. GTX 680 is just way better optimized for games than Tahiti XT is. Job well done for nvidia. Took some time, but they did it.

This is exactly what i referred to when saying they finally made a worthy card after seeing the leaked graphs a few pages back. If the performance AND consumption numbers are true (we'll see in a couple of hours) then they achieved exactly what I was missing from their cards for long years - that nvidia realized after the Fermi fiasco, I would say - efficiency. Because I do care how much power is wasted at any given time the GPU gets power.

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. Maybe that is the next step in GPU evolution. Again, congratz nvidia, you showed you can design an efficient GPU after all.

I wouldn't call an increase in performance per watt revolutionary, it's natural progression.

It's not revolutionary in general, since it is a side effect of a process shrink, but it is a revolution for nvidia, no matter how you look at it. Their perf./watt was miserable in the past years.