Tuesday, March 13th 2012
GeForce GTX 680 Up To 40% Faster Than Radeon HD 7970: NVIDIA
GPU vendors tend to give out their own performance figures of the products they're launching, compared to competitors' products. In one such comparison, allegedly of the GeForce GTX 680, doing rounds on the internet, NVIDIA's new GPU was evaluated by its makers be be over 40% faster than the Radeon HD 7970 in some tests. Keeping Radeon HD 7970 as a baseline, NVIDIA presented its performance figures for the GeForce GTX 680's leads over it, and Radeon HD 7950's trails under it. Results of as many as 15 tests were presented, from 7 games/benchmarks. All benchmarks were run with and without AA. The one test that caught the eye is Battlefield 3 with "4xAA". Experts we spoke to think NVIDIA could be using FXAA algorithm. In any case, NVIDIA looks to be confident of taking back the fastest-GPU crown from AMD.
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192 Comments on GeForce GTX 680 Up To 40% Faster Than Radeon HD 7970: NVIDIA
Every year, same freaking sh*t. Suddenly everybody turns into a freaking fortune teller (ohhh yes this weill be exactly 25.32556% faster yesss...)
The hell with any speculation and "leaked" information until i will disassemble the poor plastic thing with my bare hands.
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lol maybe a speculation thread in the forums isn't the best place for you to be hanging out then
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Nvidia might have clocked their cards higher to beat the 7970 in stock performance but overclocking could even things out again.
We will have to wait and see I guess.
Soon there will be the enthusiast overclocked 7970's like the Sapphire Atomic, MSI Lightning etc that will close the 15% gap anyway.
This is really good news for AMD and people wanting a 7970, it means the price will drop from $549 to $449 and as usual it comes down to price/performance. Nvidia 680 will be $100 more for ~15% performance gain. Just like the 580/6970 and 480/5870.
People will see better value with a $449 7970 or $379 7950 than a $549 680, heaps of people on the forums have been complaining about the $549 price of the 7970 as it is.
Same thing happens every generation.
Nevertheless, the 3Dmark11 shows that Kepler is 8% faster than 7970, which is really impressive. Remember, the chip is smaller than Tahiti and runs only on 256bit bandwidth.
Are we seeing a RV770 (HD4870) comeback with Nvidia as the comeback kid?:laugh:
Release it already! For around $550, it better beat the 7970. It would be a major fail for nVidia.
I too have a feeling that ATI will be releasing more driver previews around release date :)
Also doesn't Battlefield favor Nvidia :eek: Nice Benchies NV ;)
Common practice. I wonder what AMD were thinking, saying it would be 41% faster when it was so clear that we would find out that it only barely beats it when reviews came in.
I just picked up two 7950's for eyefinity and one of them's handling most games quite handily on 3 1920 x 1080 monitors with just the factory overclock.
We're getting to the point that unless high res monitors become the norm there's not going to be much need for more.
That said, devils advocate, maybe I'll be in line for some new ones in a couple years but only if there's a need for that much power.