Tuesday, March 6th 2012
GeForce GTX 680 Final Clocks Exposed, Allegedly
Waiting on Kepler before making a new GPU purchase? Well, you have to wait a little longer. Thankfully, this wait can be eased with the latest leaks about NVIDIA's 28 nm chip and the GeForce GTX 680 it powers.
According to VR-Zone, the GTX 680 does indeed feature 1536 CUDA Cores and a 256-bit memory interface, but it also has hotclocks, meaning the GPU is set to 705 MHz but the shaders operate at 1411 MHz. The memory (2 GB most likely) is supposed to be clocked at 6000 MHz giving a total memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.
NVIDIA's incoming card is 10 inches long and also has 3-way SLI support, and four display outputs - two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort. The GeForce GTX 680 is expected to be revealed on March 12 and should become available on March 23rd.
Source:
VR-Zone
According to VR-Zone, the GTX 680 does indeed feature 1536 CUDA Cores and a 256-bit memory interface, but it also has hotclocks, meaning the GPU is set to 705 MHz but the shaders operate at 1411 MHz. The memory (2 GB most likely) is supposed to be clocked at 6000 MHz giving a total memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.
NVIDIA's incoming card is 10 inches long and also has 3-way SLI support, and four display outputs - two DVI, one HDMI and one DisplayPort. The GeForce GTX 680 is expected to be revealed on March 12 and should become available on March 23rd.
63 Comments on GeForce GTX 680 Final Clocks Exposed, Allegedly
Me wants benchmarks so bad!!
Looks like I'll get my 7950 Twin Frozr with Triple ASUS 24inch Monitors on order.
Enjoy your "2D Surround" memory bottlenecks.
I don't know much about GPU architecture but I do remember reading this point several times in this forum and others
Imo, the 7970 should have been launched as the 7960, allowing the new card to be called a 7970. The GK104 GTX680 should be called, at most, the GTX670Ti, allowing for the variously crippled GK100 variants to be the GTX680SE, GTX680, GTX680Ti (and GTX680 Ultra?). They can then safely call any dual-GPU variant of either GK104 or GK100 (unlikely to do both) the GXT690, wtihout looking like retards. Honestly, I'd actually buy and recommend cards more readily from either of them if they could get their naming sh*t in order. It's dishonest and violates my OCD.
Additionally, when their naming systems are retarded, what does that say about them? Do I really want to purchase a 3 billion transistor £400 GPU from a company that can't devise a functional, logical naming system? It doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Im sure you will be pleased with a couple of GTX570, a whole 1280MB for 5760X1080
And glad to see you have 2x 7970 i also had crossfire and sold both cards and glad there gone 120Hz or nothing!
Remember also that GK104 is designed to be a cost effective solution to take the fight to AMD in the mid-range later on - it's standing in as a high-end product now because GK100 is taking so long.
And to conclude u have nothing smart to say and probably agreed with what i said, its ok son.
I still don't know what the GTX680 has to offer, so i can't really say anything about it. I just hope it will include out-of-the-box triple monitor support.