GK104 Dynamic Clock Adjustment Detailed

[xenocide]

Everything so far except that in a heavily NV game it is only 10% faster and has the same power plus, a smaller die, as large of a cooler, and a new "feature" that has yet to be proven beneficial, is logs in the toilet.
If it were so much cooler they would have used a single slot cooler.
If it was so much faster they would be shouting it from the roof.
If it were available........but its not.

So here we are. Speculation about a feature that mah help fix a problem no one had or cared about, or just some media spin from marketing to generate some green fog in our brains.

Where did you hear that performance rating? I saw someone say it was 5-10% faster than the HD7970, which is definitely not a "heavily NV game".

Every time people bring up Nvidia cards they feel obligated to describe them as monsterous, hot, power-plant fueled alternatives to AMD's offerings. Clearly people care about Power Consumption, and heat is always an issue, so I have no idea what you're getting at there.

As for the possibility of a Single-Slot Cooler, who knows, but I'm well adjusted to not needing one. Usually only one or two AMD cards are specially designed by manufacturers to support single slot coolers, and those run pretty damn hot. It's just not cost-efficient these days. I don't see people complaining when AMD does it.

You're also forgetting the kicker, this was intended to be Nvidia's mid-range chip. They may not price it accordingly, but that was the original intent.

 

[Steevo]

Where did you hear that performance rating? I saw someone say it was 5-10% faster than the HD7970, which is definitely not a "heavily NV game".

Every time people bring up Nvidia cards they feel obligated to describe them as monsterous, hot, power-plant fueled alternatives to AMD's offerings. Clearly people care about Power Consumption, and heat is always an issue, so I have no idea what you're getting at there.

As for the possibility of a Single-Slot Cooler, who knows, but I'm well adjusted to not needing one. Usually only one or two AMD cards are specially designed by manufacturers to support single slot coolers, and those run pretty damn hot. It's just not cost-efficient these days. I don't see people complaining when AMD does it.

You're also forgetting the kicker, this was intended to be Nvidia's mid-range chip. They may not price it accordingly, but that was the original intent.

Im not sure where anyone heard Nvidia say this was supposed to be their midrange chip.

But based off the release model number it is their high end.
Based off the cuda core count, die size and process there will not be anymore cores to utilize,thus meaning only a two core version for more performance.
It only beat a 7970 by 10% in BF3, a TWIMTBP game AFAIK.
They have complained of clockspeed/yeild issues.
Its still not here, but I hear if you travel to a press event half way around the world they will give you chocolate. The chocolate must mean at least 50% faster...........we swear it.

 

[xenocide]

GK104 is the successor to their last mid-range cards, so the card was clearly intended to be mid-range. It's not Nvidias fault if they made a product that is faster than AMD's enthusiast offerings. As for BF3, I found nowhere on either their Wikipedia page nor W1z's review page that listed it as a TWIMTBP game. But let's compare BF3 results to the overall summery:

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I see nothing that indicates BF3 having an edge on Nvidia cards. That's just one rumor. Various people have claimed the Kepler offerings would beat AMD cards in performance, and Nvidia has clearly made it their intent to always have the most powerful single card (non-dual GPU) card on the market, so I doubt they would buck trends now.

Like I said, the only questions in my mind are Price and Power Consumption, and arguing about anything else seems trivial.

 

[radrok]

It's not Nvidias fault if they made a product that is faster than AMD's enthusiast offerings

I think this isn't accurate, we should see reviews before saying this.

 

[xenocide]

I think this isn't accurate, we should see reviews before saying this.

Assuming the rumors of it besting the HD7970, and that it was intended to be their Mid-Range offering--given the model number, it wouldn't be too inaccurate.

 

[Inceptor]

Assuming the rumors of it besting the HD7970, and that it was intended to be their Mid-Range offering--given the model number, it wouldn't be too inaccurate.

GK110 may, if it exists in a lab somewhere, may end up morphing into the GTX 780.
At this point, we do not have enough information to say anything that isn't a guess; an assumption based on other assumptions based on other possibly true statements is still just a guess.

But I think it's fun to guess. If no one guessed or assumed, some posters would have thousands fewer posts...

 

[Casecutter]

A chip is a piece of silicon... What they call in their line-up, really holds no water when, as of now (or sometime) aren’t fielding what formally designated as the Uber, High-end, enthusiast offering this is their superlative offering the "top dog" in the line up and the best they can counter with especailly.

If Nvidia prices them similarity against the competitor's "enthusiast" offering that's what "they are" no matter the die size. Now if the price it against the competitors mid-range products and performs consistently in the competitors enthusiast price point, it's called neither… it's would be just the winner!