Quote Originally Posted by Handrox View Post
NVIDIA Kepler Power Circuitry Revealed: 300W TDP?
Note by VRZone: "The board in question was manufactured in the third quarter of 2011, meaning that NVIDIA has had Kepler for quite some time"
Note- This isn't aimed at you Handrox.

Wow. Early ES does not equal production samples.
The real question is why is it taking so long?
Are they waiting for the process to get a little better or have they had to do a large number of spins. Or a mix of the two.


Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
Anyone else troubled by the fact that there has not been an chipset entry into a beta driver for GK104 yet? Something seems asmiss... If its really going to be released in april we ought to have seen either that or a PCB by now
Charlie said they have had cards in-house for awhile now, I think he said about a month, and hadn't even shown them to briefed AIBs, until today.

Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post
We really knew nothing directly related to 570/580 before it was released.
I don't recall that we knew exactly what it was once we saw GTX480.