Tuesday, March 13th 2012
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Dual-GK104 Graphics Card Arrives in May
A little later this month, NVIDIA will launch the GeForce GTX 680, a single-GPU graphics card based on its GK104 performance GPU. It is reported that NVIDIA will design a dual-GPU graphics accelerator based on the same chip, which will then be positioned as an enthusiast product. Called the GeForce GTX 690, this dual-GPU solution will arrive in May.
NVIDIA's approach to the high-end segment, so far, is identical to that of AMD. It hasn't unveiled its enthusiast GK100 GPU, yet, and is instead using performance-segment GK104 for both its single-GPU high-performance graphics card, and as a dual-GPU part in an enthusiast-grade product. This buys NVIDIA plenty of time to release the GK100, unless AMD can offer a new GPU that trumps GK104 in performance, significantly.
Source:
3DCenter.org
NVIDIA's approach to the high-end segment, so far, is identical to that of AMD. It hasn't unveiled its enthusiast GK100 GPU, yet, and is instead using performance-segment GK104 for both its single-GPU high-performance graphics card, and as a dual-GPU part in an enthusiast-grade product. This buys NVIDIA plenty of time to release the GK100, unless AMD can offer a new GPU that trumps GK104 in performance, significantly.
16 Comments on Dual-GK104 Graphics Card Arrives in May
Everything now indicates that the HD 7970 will retain the single-GPU performance crown for the foreseeable future.
And let's not forget AMD doesn't even have mature drivers out for the 7970 and the 7870 is faster than it in a couple of titles.
... Oh and that if it's so great why won't Nvidia release actual benchmarks for the 680?
The only solid piece of evidence we've seen is a Samaratain demo which for all we know could have been given optimized drivers for the 680, unlike the 580 tri sli.
Don't forget how old and low end the GPUs in the current consoles are yet they're able to toss out modern games at half-decent graphics levels thanks to drivers and optimized programming.
I see no reason why Nvidia couldn't have done something to pull out all the power from it to make it appear like they had a completely killer product.
I would rather not say anything until we see real evidence.
atleast the date is confirmed, as far as I know :rolleyes:
Quote: "However, the GK110 will not be ready in months and by the time it appears AMD’s next generation could be just around the corner. In fact, it would be unfair to even compare the GK110 to current generation Radeons, which will be more than nine months old by the time GK110 shows up."
At least someone has the truth and honor of it. :toast: or is a hypocritical AMD fan trying to get fairness when AMD was unfair to claim single cpu crown by going against older CPUs in the first place. We saw what happened when the evenly matched Kepler showed up.... bam, :nutkick: 10, 9, 8 ... knockout.