Friday, March 16th 2012

GTX 680 Generally Faster Than HD 7970: New Benchmarks
For skeptics who refuse to believe randomly-sourced bar-graphs of the GeForce GTX 680 that are starved of pictures, here is the first set of benchmarks run by a third-party (neither NVIDIA nor one of its AIC partners). This [p]reviewer from HKEPC has pictures to back his benchmarks. The GeForce GTX 680 was pitted against a Radeon HD 7970, and a previous-generation GeForce GTX 580. The test-bed consisted of an extreme-cooled Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor (running at stock frequency), ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard, 8 GB (4x 2 GB) GeIL EVO 2 DDR3-2200 MHz quad-channel memory, Corsair AX1200W PSU, and Windows 7 x64.
Benchmarks included 3DMark 11 (performance preset), Battlefield 3, Batman: Arkham City, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Lost Planet 2, and Unigine Heaven (version not mentioned, could be 1). All tests were run at a constant resolution of 1920x1080, with 8x MSAA on some tests (mentioned in the graphs).More graphs follow.
Source:
HKEPC
Benchmarks included 3DMark 11 (performance preset), Battlefield 3, Batman: Arkham City, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Lost Planet 2, and Unigine Heaven (version not mentioned, could be 1). All tests were run at a constant resolution of 1920x1080, with 8x MSAA on some tests (mentioned in the graphs).More graphs follow.
273 Comments on GTX 680 Generally Faster Than HD 7970: New Benchmarks
So more demand means less base clock.
And I read no where that it uses less power than the 7970.
More pics.. not of NV's slides but GK104/GTX680
Chip(GK104), Measure1, Measure2, Heatsink1, Heatsink2, Hynix-RAM?, Blower fan, on-board chip?, stacked power conn
apparently they moved way back in 2008 with their 40nm performance cards..
nvidia also have 1 year long collaboration with hynix in co-developing car infotainment systems.
LINK
It's 5GHz
An overclocked 7970 can do 11,000 3D mark 11, can the nvidia card do that? Or has the card already been milked? And what happened to 40% better BF3 performance?
Anyway, for me, I can only hope the 680 is faster so I can buy a 7970 for cheaper.
If this card is indeed the GTX 680, we should just accept it and look towards better driver support and features that actually improve the gaming experience (i.e. TXAA).
That, or wait for their next generation of chips...
But GK104 is the top end for this generation, unless they release a 685 or 680ti or whatnot. Which means either Nvidia figured they would make more profits this way (which doesn't make sense as they'd be able to get larger shipments running this card lower and owning the market for performance/ price, meaning anyone but the damnest AMD fanboys would buy their cards. = larger profit and more marketshare.) or B. there was an issue with getting GK100 out, whatever it may be.
In any case, I'll wait to see some more official benchmarks before reaching a conclusion on this one.