Monday, January 16th 2012
NVIDIA Kepler Inbound for March-April
NVIDIA's next high-performance GPU that will attempt to restore NVIDIA's performance leadership in the consumer graphics segment, under the GeForce Kepler family, is slated for a March-April launch, according to a VR-Zone report. At CES 2012, NVIDIA focused on its Tegra product line, and demonstrated its applications in smartphones, tablets, and even automotives, but chose to avoid talking about its GeForce family.
According to the report, NVIDIA wants to avoid doing a paper-launch like AMD, which launched its Radeon HD 7970 on December 22, 2011, but its market availability was non-existent till after two weeks, on January 9, 2012. NVIDIA wants to ensure the GeForce product based on its new high-performance GPU will be available in the market on launch-day, which is pinned somewhere within late March and early April. On April 8, Intel will launch its third-generation Core processor family.
Source:
VR-Zone
According to the report, NVIDIA wants to avoid doing a paper-launch like AMD, which launched its Radeon HD 7970 on December 22, 2011, but its market availability was non-existent till after two weeks, on January 9, 2012. NVIDIA wants to ensure the GeForce product based on its new high-performance GPU will be available in the market on launch-day, which is pinned somewhere within late March and early April. On April 8, Intel will launch its third-generation Core processor family.
82 Comments on NVIDIA Kepler Inbound for March-April
I personally am waiting for the launch of Kepler to get a new GPU. If it's good, I will get the "670" level GPU more than likely, or wait for a 560Ti level GPU. Waiting cannot hurt since AMD only has their top tier GPU out in limited supply now anyway, and I want to see how well Kepler does against that. If Kepler isn't as huge a gain or is too pricey for the performance, I might be stuck with another AMD purchase despite hoping for an Nvidia :x
My gtx 275 is shitty these days
I think i'm going to work more xd
-poor student-
I might change back to nVidia if price and performance is right.
I'm over the problem I had with nVidia a while back which made me go back to ATi.
And to get a decent increase in performance from 6XXX to 7XXX you need to over clock...
Kinda stupid...
Nvidia always seems to come back with an impressive card each series, so I want to try them for a change.
LOL, a 5970 was a high end product, and then you go with 6870s? Which were low end of the next gen, which was almost the same speed, of course you wouldn't see any increase dummy. It's possible to even see a decrease in performance due to a smaller amount of VRAM, and even worse: micro-stutter.
On topic: When do you guys think we'll see some benchies? CANNOT wait. Been wanting to upgrade, and want to see if nVidia idd has something better to offer than the former ATI team atm.
Kinda like the HD 2900XT to HD 3870 or GeForce 8 series to 9 series (wherein there is no massive difference in performance vs having a completely new architecture/die process such as GeForce 7 to GeForce 8 or X1000 series to HD 2000/HD 3000 series)
I'm entitled to my own opinion.
I would have kept the 5970 till the 7 series came out and then if I didn't have the money for a high end 7 series, I'd still keep it over a mid-low range 7 series card.
Just FYI, 6870s were meant to compete with a 5850-5870. You literally might has well downgraded to one of those.
1. Because my 5970 had freeze/crash issues
2. Because I thought the 6870 in crossfire would've had a decent performance increase over my 5970. Because the 5970 was basically 2 5870's strapped onto one board I thought the 2 6870's would be the equivalent just better performance...
You were fooled by AMD's naming nonsense whereby as Viper said, the 6870 was the 5770 'upgrade'. The 6950 was the new 5850. So to get the logical step up, you should have bought two 6950's.
However, it's not your fault as logically you'd assume a 'x'850 part would have been high end given the 5850/70 cards that came before. You fell into the very intentional and scummy graphics card renaming scheme tha both AMD and NV do.
High End - HD 6970/6950 - HD 5870/5850
Mid Range - HD 6870/6850 - HD 5770/5750
Yes, AMD's model naming scheme changed since the HD 6000 series, and the usual rebranding stuff that is getting common these days.
oh wait, getting too much OT lol.
Im eagerly awaiting results of GTX 760 tests >8]
I only go for midrange lol