Tuesday, March 13th 2012
New NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Pictures Hit The Web
Courtesy of ChipHell we now have a couple of fresh pictures of NVIDIA's first Kepler-powered graphics card, the GeForce (or should we write' GeFORCE') GTX 680. Shot both from above and the back, the incoming card has a black PCB, a dual-slot/single-fan cooler, two (stacked) 6-pin PCIe power plugs, a couple of SLI connectors, and four display outputs - dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.
The GTX 680 is equipped with one GK104 28 nm GPU, and reportedly boasts 1536 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (4 GB models should also be in the works), PCI-Express 3.0, and a TDP of around 190 W. The GeForce GTX 680 is expected to be launched next week, on March 22nd. Its rumored price tag is $549.
Source:
ChipHell
The GTX 680 is equipped with one GK104 28 nm GPU, and reportedly boasts 1536 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (4 GB models should also be in the works), PCI-Express 3.0, and a TDP of around 190 W. The GeForce GTX 680 is expected to be launched next week, on March 22nd. Its rumored price tag is $549.
76 Comments on New NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Pictures Hit The Web
Was their high end card not suppose to smoke the HD7970 by 40%?
And if that is indeed the case and they will instead of calling this one the 660 just name the high end new cards 770 and 780 (and probably rebrand this card to a 760 eventually) then this stuff really seems like borderline price fixing to me.
And yes, that was going to be their GTX 660 but their high end card is having lots of trouble. The GK110 (the "refresh" to the nonexistent GK100 which would have been the GTX 680 which would have beaten the HD 7970 by a hefty margin, will show up when it does). There is no indication of when, so this is it for nVidia this turn. That has got to hurt because in all likelihood it leaves the HD 7970 as the single-GPU king.
Regardless of the approach, I think we can all appreciate smaller cards :)
And about the pricing. This is quite unfortunate for us consumers. But when I take on a company's point of view, I'd market my product the exact same way. Think about it: why would you price your mid range / performance chip at 200-250€ when it can compete with the current high end (i.e. ~500€).
I guess that is the advantage of being late to market with your products, you can just wait and see what the competition does.
The way I see it, the real fight will be fought with Nvidia's 700 series vs AMD's 8000.
Oh BTW, GTX 680's little brother is GTX 670 TI. Lower CUDA core count, lower clock speeds, launched after GTX 570/580 inventories shrink.
I spent much time laughing about the "570" posts.
not a fanboy just spotting something fishy...in the nfishia camp :rolleyes:
Nvidia will release the GTX 680 followed by the normal cards that follow GTX 670/660 so on (690 in may) We will see the GTX 685/780 in August. (Depending on how late it releases is what it will be called.)
AMD will release the HD7990 (Which will have lower clocks in order to run cooler) They will also continue to release the rest of their cards.... 7670/7650/7570 and so on.....Later around the same time Nvidia releases their GTX 685/780 AMD will release “Tenerife” which will be either the 7980 or 8970.
I get this from Knowledge with some own personal connections as well as info off the web. I could be completely wrong... I am just putting together pieces.
www.guruht.com/2012/03/amd-tenerife-hd-79807990-graphic-card.html
www.chiphell.com/thread-382393-1-1.html