Check out Anandtechs review, they have the 680 dominating at 2560x1600 @ Ultra with FXAA Beats the 580 by 48% at every resolution! Wow!
think im going to get the 680. or this could be the hype talking...... but the card as a product looks EXCEPTIONALLY good.
Prices in Canada (for those interested): http://www.ncix.ca/search/?categoryid=0&q=GeForce+GTX+680 It seams that their is a 100$ sale on most of them... 600$ down to 500$. I guess the MSRP is 600$, but all stores will sale it at 500$.
Who know.. buying the card NOW, like now now, it would be the ONLY time where installing the drivers that comes with the disk would be fine, and would be the latest drivers.
But this is the ONLY review site so far that says that... all other reviews, shows that the GTX 680 is more powerful than the 7970, even Bit-tech reviews shows this. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/20...mpaign=Feed:+bit-tech/all+(bit-tech.net+feed)
Anandtech review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review They talk more about the changes of Kepler, to make it more efficient. It it explains why they moved the PCI-E power plugs, and why the fan is higher up.. among other stuff. Interesting read.
Very yes. Well.. I'll be waiting for the med range models to come out, because let's face it 550-600$ for a GPU isn't as easy to spend as a 250-300$ card. Also, I'll let AMD and Nvdiia do their price war fight. But I'll definitely get it. The way I work, is that I only upgrade when my games that I play starting to have trouble at medium high settings at native resolution of my screen. As I am not a huge fan of FPS (I only play casually and for fun... mostly with friends and/or family), it's not a big issue. So about every 3 to 4 years cycle. Well to be really honest.. I feel I can keep my GPU for another year. It still play games at 60FPS at medium high setting at native resolution... some even still at high settings, and some with near ultra. And the jump in image quality between high and ultra is marginal. And if you play with the settings of the game when in the medium-high range, you can get graphics that looks like if you are playing the game at high settings, but aren't. As for the the rest of the system (5-6 years time frame for the CPU/RAM/Motherboard). heck my previous system, was the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2Ghz, 4GB of RAM 400MHz DDR1, nForce 4 chipset. Honestly it ran games fin all these years, and proudly ran Vista 64-bit, and Windows 7 64-bit above and beyond.
Check out this important page on AnandTech review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/17 It's interesting to see on how on these benchmark the GTX 680 performs AWFULLY. Terrible benchmark scores, but excellent in gaming... [edit] Nvm, other sites don't show this problem. Something went wrong at AnanTech[/edit]
Me too, some other guy made me aware they were doing a video review.. I only posted to show what he said, I do not agree. I think he is a wally
