Links to "beating the pants off a GTX680 at higher resolutions"?
The initial launch reviewshad the 680 winning at 25 X 16 and 57 X 10, the only "higher resolutions" that matter, so I sort of doubt this refresh will switch them from "losing" to "beating the pants off". I don't doubt this refresh results in trading benchmarks at higher resolutions, but there's that whole missing featuee set issue.
The launch reviews are the opinions a lot of people will form of these cards, so AMD did themselves no favors just adding the new bios to the reference model, shipping it out and saying "Review this!". I bet there will be reference models, and beyond that, there were GTX480 models with nonstandard coolers with vastly different power/heat/noise properties as well.
Reference is what gets reviewed to start, and largely what people think of with cards.
People don't think of the MSI Lightning when you mention a GTX680, they think of reference. And reference to reference, this is a fail. The new 4890.
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