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
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7850_HD_7870/8.html
Wizz got 63 driving a few more pixels.
Dirt 3 86 FPS with 4X AA
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7850_HD_7870/14.html
W1zz got 145.8, again driving a few more pixels.
That graph is screwed, or perhaps they meant the 7870.
:nutkick: take that marketing
If the first case is true, then the GTX 680 will likely come slightly above the HD 7950, as previously thought. If the second case is true, then I'll eat my socks.
The discreet GPU market is pretty evenly split, almost at 50/50 so I don't know what you're talking about.
Thats what we call in the real world a LOSS of market share.
from JPR February 28, 2012:
As usual, it was a two horse race between AMD and Nvidia. The latter saw graphics cards shipments increase by 3.7% from Q3 2011 to 63.4% while AMD-based boards decreased 3.6% to 36.3% for the same period. On a year-to-year basis AMD lost market share by 2.7% while Nvidia gained 2.9%.
Vendor Q4 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2010
AMD 36.3% 39.9% 39.0%
Nvidia 63.4% 59.7% 60.5%
Others 0.3% 0.4% 0.5%
www.techspot.com/news/47593-jpr-discrete-gpu-shipments-down-65-nvidia-gains-market-share.html