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I'm looking forward to the 660's.
768 shaders, 64 texture unit's, 192bit mem ddr5.
Looks very good except for the 192bit part, but if you overclock it to the same lv as the 680, I think it would still be 2x faster in mem then the 460 for example.
Think of it this way, just an example.
2x 660's, 384bit mem, same amount of shaders as the 680.
1x 680, likely the same cost as the above 2 cards together, but less mem bandwith in total.
Being that the 680 uses ruffly around 175w, imagine that cut in half.
The 660 is probably gonna be rated around 90w.
With a 660, I'm 'guessing', my pc would run ruffly around 200w on load, that's good stuff.
The tv in the living room uses more power then my entire system would (including monitor) if I had a 660
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I very much like the direction nvidia is going with it's lower power cards as the mainstream.
I don't like how they are gimping out a bit on some things like the mem bandwith.
Edit:
Nvidia only makes 1-2 diff core's per gen.
Say a 685 or 690 comes out and it's single core, how much you wanna bet it's really the exact same thing as a 680 core....
Same goes for the 660's, probably really just a 680 with some chunks of it disabled.
Though I'm hoping this won't be the case, I'm actually hoping for nvidia to cut the core in half physically.
As for the quadro's, they are most definitely the same exact cores.
Always has been.
If something called gpgpu (whatever that is...) is gone, it's either not gone at all but disabled, or it's really gone for good and it's not coming back.
Last edited by NEOAethyr; 04-01-2012 at 08:22 AM.
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