Thursday, March 29th 2012
Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Launched
As the leading brand in enthusiastic graphics market, Gainward, again, introduces its Phantom series for GeForce GTX 680 - Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom. The Gainward GTX 680 Phantom, continue the elegant design of the first generation, delivers much better performance than the previous design. The most important is the Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom comes with factory over-clocked setting - 1150MHz boost clock (1084MHz base clock) and 3150MHz (DDR6300) memory clock.
It is really a "silent monster", the fastest GTX 680 in the market and extreme cool under gaming environment. Under 3D benchmark, it is 12.6% higher than reference board (3DMark 2011 Xscore). While in gameplay, it is around 10% higher. To compare with the competing GPU in red camp, it performs 27.7% higher in 3DMark 2011 Xscore and exceeds amazingly 32% in hot titles gaming performance.New Phantom II Cooler Design
The new Phantom II comes with brand new fins design (patent pending) that introduces:
Gainward superior hardware design
Beside the cooler performance, the Gainward engineers' contribution for their users is to provide superior hardware design for GeForce GTX 680 Phantom. A 6-phase with DrMOS PWM design for the GTX 680 cores brings a lot more benefits for the over-clocking capability. With factory over-clocked to 1150MHz boost clock (1084MHz base clock) and 3150MHz (DDR6300) memory clock speed, the GTX 680 Phantom also can be over-clocked easily.
Thanks to superior hardware design, Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom gains extra 5% more power efficiency that is 5W saving while performing 8% more in gaming performance.
Gainward Expertool II utility
Along with new Phantom series announcement, Gainward proudly introduces the new Expertool utility for GTX 680's dynamic clocking to tap into this powerful board. Users can utilize this new tool to enjoy the experience of the performance enhanced and quiet gameplay.
QuattroPorts
The QuattroPorts supports up to four displays in the same time on a single GTX 680. Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom also comes with a HDMI to DVI adapter for the users to enjoy NV Surround with three DVI monitors.
Technologies
It is really a "silent monster", the fastest GTX 680 in the market and extreme cool under gaming environment. Under 3D benchmark, it is 12.6% higher than reference board (3DMark 2011 Xscore). While in gameplay, it is around 10% higher. To compare with the competing GPU in red camp, it performs 27.7% higher in 3DMark 2011 Xscore and exceeds amazingly 32% in hot titles gaming performance.New Phantom II Cooler Design
The new Phantom II comes with brand new fins design (patent pending) that introduces:
- Better thermal performance
- Lower acoustic level
- A more solid structure than previous generation
Gainward superior hardware design
Beside the cooler performance, the Gainward engineers' contribution for their users is to provide superior hardware design for GeForce GTX 680 Phantom. A 6-phase with DrMOS PWM design for the GTX 680 cores brings a lot more benefits for the over-clocking capability. With factory over-clocked to 1150MHz boost clock (1084MHz base clock) and 3150MHz (DDR6300) memory clock speed, the GTX 680 Phantom also can be over-clocked easily.
Thanks to superior hardware design, Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom gains extra 5% more power efficiency that is 5W saving while performing 8% more in gaming performance.
Gainward Expertool II utility
Along with new Phantom series announcement, Gainward proudly introduces the new Expertool utility for GTX 680's dynamic clocking to tap into this powerful board. Users can utilize this new tool to enjoy the experience of the performance enhanced and quiet gameplay.
QuattroPorts
The QuattroPorts supports up to four displays in the same time on a single GTX 680. Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom also comes with a HDMI to DVI adapter for the users to enjoy NV Surround with three DVI monitors.
Technologies
- Microsoft DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 support
- Microsoft DirectCompute and OpenCL Support
- NVIDIA GPU Boost
- NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync
- NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- NVIDIA CUDA Technology
- NVIDIA PhysX Technology
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
- NVIDIA SLI Technology
- OpenGL 4.2 support
- PCI Express 3.0
- Two Dual-link DVI connectors
- One DisplayPort connector
- One HDMI connector (v1.4a)
19 Comments on Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Launched
But I guess most wouldnt be running 2 of these in tandem less they put cooling on...
This will be in my case so long as it's quiet, because the looks make up for any cooling short-comings (as long as it isn't worse than stock...)
Edit: Unless the top fins are plastic just to look cool, that would be horrible... oh god please tell me they aren't :(
Face it there will be a limited number of chips (TSMC :shadedshu) Nvidia will be able to bin for the GTX680, and so every AIB won't be letting thier small lot not bring the best RoI. Those AIB's are not going to let those be in products that can justify a premium asking price. By the time there's sufficient stock on the shelves (8-10 weeks), things might change, but to find GTX680 at around $530 will be norm for a long time. Exactly why AMD didn’t find any reason to worry about 7970 pricing.