Thursday, March 22nd 2012
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Launched, Five Models
EVGA kicked off its GeForce GTX 680 lineup with no less than five models. The Into, SC, FTW, Classified, and HydroCopper. Intro is the absolute base model, with fanatic adherence to NVIDIA reference clock speeds of 1006/1056/6000 MHz (core/boost/memory effective) and board design; SC (or SuperClocked) is a factory-overclocked model that has slightly higher clock speeds, and augments the NVIDIA reference design with an EVGA-exclusive backplate. Then there's FTW, which features a custom cooler design by EVGA, with even higher clock speeds than SC. The last air-cooled model is the Classified, which our sources tell us will have "astoundingly" high clock speeds. HydroCopper retains the clock profile of Classified, but replaces the cooling assembly with a Swiftech-built copper water-block. EVGA is yet to reveal the design of Classified, and the clock speeds of the factory-overclocked models. There are other variations, such as EVGA's "Signature" design with SuperClocked clock-profile, FTW with 4 GB memory, etc.
23 Comments on EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Launched, Five Models
EVGA rulz :rockout:
check out the site for added details
PS: nothing against other brands.. i have my bias towards evga cards ever since my first card - 8600GT..
vr-zone.com/articles/evga-geforce-gtx-680-hits-1842-mhz-under-ln2/15323.html
Here is a great review of the stock 680GTX by TTL! Thanks Tom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RZDPjMttY&list=UU_SN80_V2GymyCWM2oTYTeg&index=2&feature=plcp
FYI EVGA.com is SUPER slow... traffic is hitting it hard lol
I want to see what the 660 and 660Ti can do:
256bit? 192bit? 1280MB?
With the 680 starting at 2GB, the 660 and 660Ti have to have a smaller amount of RAM, just for card marketing differentiation. I think the 560Ti 448 core is going bye bye, soon.
Waiting to see the 660 FTW and 660Ti.
Unless somebody has some inside info they want to share, my two guesses are 256bit + 1280MB or 192bit + 1536MB (I think this second one is less likely).
They have so many versions of the SC lol
I'm not saying a higher memory buffer will be of any help in the future, but chances are by then faster GPUs that make better use of the extra memory will be already out :)
I don't see much benefit to anything over a reference card now that Nvidia is using DOC :o 4GB of vRAM could be usefull for some user's :)