Thursday, May 3rd 2012
Colorful GeForce GTX 670 Graphics Card Pictured
Here are the first pictures of Colorful GeForce GTX 670. The card, according to the source, sticks to NVIDIA reference design. It's not much different from the other GeForce GTX 670 cards pictured till date, but it's the card's rear view picture that caught our attention. We noticed from pictures of MSI's card, that the two 6-pin PCI-E power connectors are located more towards the central portion of the card, than towards the end, this led us to believe that the GTX 670 will have a shorter than usual PCB, which these latest pictures confirm.
The PCB (rear) picture reveals quite a few things. To begin with, the VRM area is moved to the front portion of the PCB, similar to AMD's HD 7800 series. A great deal of compacting has been done, the eight GDDR5 memory chips are spread across both sides of the PCB (four on each side), probably to manage heat and wiring better. The portion of the cooler that's sticking out of the card needn't pack metal parts (heatsinks), there's just a chamber for the fan. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 is expected to launch later this month.
Source:
Expreview
The PCB (rear) picture reveals quite a few things. To begin with, the VRM area is moved to the front portion of the PCB, similar to AMD's HD 7800 series. A great deal of compacting has been done, the eight GDDR5 memory chips are spread across both sides of the PCB (four on each side), probably to manage heat and wiring better. The portion of the cooler that's sticking out of the card needn't pack metal parts (heatsinks), there's just a chamber for the fan. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 is expected to launch later this month.
20 Comments on Colorful GeForce GTX 670 Graphics Card Pictured
Time will tell.
Your point (and his) will have merit once availability improves but, until then, i think not.
store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
ATI Radeon HD 7970
Jan 0.04% Feb 0.22% Mar 0.34% Apr 0.36%
Last month change +0.02%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
Mar 0.04% Apr 0.22%
Last month change +0.18%
ATI Radeon HD 6990
Apr 0.18%
-0.02%
ATI Radeon HD 7950
Apr 0.12%
-0.02%
ATI Radeon HD 7800 Series
Apr 0.12%
+0.10%
Yeah it's too soon for recovering the entire R&D, but on a per card basis they are making a huge profit and they ARE selling them by the thousands == huge profits.
BTW in those numbers there's also a hint of why you can now find so many HD7900's series cards in stock unlike in previous months. Basically they have not been selling a lot last month when they became overpriced and underperforming compared to GTX680.
I agree that this card is a real testament of what GK104 really is (or was), before TSMC capacity problems made GK100 difficult to make* and before they learned that it was able to beat HD7970, but now it is what it is. I'd love it to sell for <$300, it should sell for <$300, but it won't. The even more crippled GTX 660, maybe, maybe...
* I'm 99% sure it is actually easier than GF100 to make and had Tahiti been faster they would have released it with a cluster disabled or something, like GTX480 and like GTX 480 it would have a been a somewhat desperate move. But TSMC capacity is not good and GK104 beats Tahity so they dont need desperate moves that can hurt their bottom line if anything goes wrong, and now we have what we have.
www.techpowerup.com/162296/ZOTAC-Announces-GeForce-GTX-560-SE.html
The PCB in both cards are small.
Wonder if this has to do with the May 10th nda?