Looks like these ones are for real; 2nd link has all the images caught before it was taken down. http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review-dethrones-hd-7970-edges-gtx-590-benchmarks/ http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...orce-GTX-780&p=5071447&viewfull=1#post5071447 Many many more (like 30+ at source) GeForce GTX 680 Launch Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rfdKDyVo_P4
its a gamers card not a folders card word of warning to anyone expecting good folding scores as they are awful worse than last gen 580s ect in games it toasts the 7970 quiet well temps and power look good also expect some price drops on the competition which can only be good for the consumer in folding it sucks
I'm gonna throw my 2p in and say the drivers for the 7000 series are just not there yet. Base this on: Crysis 2 DX9 versus DX11 performance, oddly low performance in general at 1920x1080 versus that at 2650x1600. Take something silly tough, like the Metro 2033 benchmark results, see where in the 7970 the bandwidth on offer is soo huge that it masks the currently poor resource management in the latest Catalyst drivers. The 680 is a very good card, not to be argued with, but Cypress just is not there yet, software wise. It's as new and alien as the 2900xt was in it's day and that took a good 4-6 driver revisions before it was at it's full (all be it meagre) potential (See the Catalyst 7.10 'Shoot 'Em Up' driver). The parallels with the 2900xt end at software immaturity, however. I think there's sufficient reason to believe the gap between the 680 and the 7970 will shrink in time. The power consumption discrepancy could largely come down to having a bus 128bits wider and what that does to die area and PCB traces/extra DRAM chips. The 7970 and 7950 need a price cut now to look attractive.
I've heard sniffs that it's not as capable in GPGPU stuff as the gaming performance would suggest, *apparently* this is in regards to double AND single precision floating point workloads.
Hmmm, I guess the extra VRam on the 7970 isn't as useful as was fortold. Though Action_Parsnip could quite possibly be right. Is AMD just perpetually a poor driver producer?
Going on the website stats I see, most people interested in buying high end cards still use 1080p monitors. No other option for 3D Vision folk either.
Yes, and I am a 3d vision folk running 2 x 560Ti 1gb. I can't run BF3 on ultra due to lack of GDDR. If I want to run ultra on BF3 at 1080 then I need something with at least 1.5gb GDDR. I wouldn't buy less than 2gb now and would preferably aim for 3 or 4gb to allow for future games.
repost: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?p=3001812#post3001812 do we really need a new thread for each leak?
So the excuse for 7970 is immature drivers has it not been out since January lol AMD need to sort out there drivers the time for excuses is over
Interesting......... NDA lift is tomorrow, the wait is almost over. (i honestly don't see the need for another thread if there's new "leeks" between today and tomorrow)
WTF is going on there? Driver improvements? Or Tomshardware having absolutely zero credibility as a reliable source of reviews?