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    GTX 680 commercial

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wild05kid05, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. wild05kid05

    wild05kid05 Cook Free or Die

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    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxXk-iXLjiY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HxXk-iXLjiY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width='640' height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
     
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    Mexic00ls Notebook Deity

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    And thats why i have been saving up for, cant wait the the cards to be up for sale
     
    Mexic00ls, Mar 21, 2012
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  3. jrwingate6

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    Looks like Nvidia will be taking the crown back.
     
    jrwingate6, Mar 21, 2012
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    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    This commercial was made for people who know absolutely nothing about GPU's. He didn't go into ANY details!!!
     
    rschauby, Mar 21, 2012
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    Desktop GPU
     
    alexUW, Mar 21, 2012
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    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    never gave it away.. :rolleyes:

    time to build desktop! :D so sexy!!!

    actually quite on the contrary, I was looking for a sample of TXAA and it looks awesome :)
     
    maxheap, Mar 21, 2012
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    I haven't trusted commercials since before World War One...
     
    Rykoshet, Mar 21, 2012
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    ryzeki Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Nvidia has had the crown of the highest performing single GPU for a while now, dude. AMD only competes by having similarly perfoming GPUs with competitive prices.

    The GPU itself doesn't seem impressive from the charts. I need actual reviews now!

    The most impressive thing of these GPUs for me is the power requirements.
     
    ryzeki, Mar 21, 2012
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    I didn't really get anything form this video, other than maybe the new boost and anti aliasing features. I agree with rschauby.
     
    Rambisco, Mar 21, 2012
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    ryzeki, Mar 21, 2012
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    Cloudfire, Mar 21, 2012
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    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    DISAPPOINTING??!! beating 7970 by about 15-20% at 195W while 7970 is 250W is not enough... dude, for the love of all lower your expectations...

    seriously, looking to benches, 680 is the best thing to hit the desktop market for a looooooooong while.. tom's hardware writes it is better than gtx 590 in BF3 (drawing less than half the power?), pure craziness... :eek:
     
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    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    i hear the gk100 will be named the gtx 685
     
    aduy, Mar 22, 2012
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    Of course, but depending on games sometimes its even much less % advantage. It IS amazing that they perform so good with lower power requirement, but keep in mind the GTX680 is NOT 195w. it does scale between lower than 195w and up to 225W due to turbo boost thing it uses so actual power difference is not that much, just as the HD7970 does not consume 250w all the time. Temperature wise they are about the same, and idle power they are matched.

    They are close but the GTX680 does consume less power and performs better on stock. But when overclocking both, the current Speed boost thing actually is a detriment. Both GPUs OCd yield basically the same level of performance. I was expecting the GTX680 to keep a bigger lead basically because I am used to nvidia having the highest performing GPU, followed by competitive AMD by price. Seeing current high end offerings trading blows closer than before is... well its interesting I guess :D

    It's a great card for sure, but I was expecting a bit more from all the hype. Specially since they do have lower power consumption so they will surely fire with a better performing card soon. It's a bit interesting to see they went full gaming and lost computing power tho. I guess nobody used that haha.

    The great thing is the price, since its going to force AMD to lower their offerings so its a win win for consumers! Now I want to see their lower end cards, specifically the match vs the 7870 from AMD since that card has a great performance/price ratio.

    Huge performance/watt increase, a bit less actual performance/performance increase. At any rate these new architectures are the foundation to something awesome to hit the market soon :)
     
    ryzeki, Mar 22, 2012
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    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    well said, however I think this is what could be done for the starters, couldn't be any better.. don't know about 225W, I thought it is 195W within boost, if it is 225W, why to advertise it that way? :confused:

    btw bro, you wanted to say something else than performance/performance, that is equal to 1 for everything :D
     
    maxheap, Mar 22, 2012
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    If they work on single gpu multi monitor and make it as good as AMD Eyefinity id switch.

    Its currently lacking a lot of features though and only has the most basic support.

    The actual game benchmarks are pretty close though, only a few fps different, not "blow away" by any means.

    So it will probably in fact come back to the same thing it always does. Not power consumption vs performance, not max frame rate vs max frame rate as 60+fps is 60+fps.

    It will be price vs performance, and Nvidia has had horrible pricing vs AMD the last few years and if the 7970 is $100+ cheaper than the GTX680 then that would make my choice pretty obvious.

    The other thing is 2GB of VRAM is a mistake they should have gone with 3GB like AMD did, my current 5870 crossfire setup suffers extremely in ultra high resolutions simply due to lack of VRAM not due to performance.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Mar 22, 2012
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    Ahhh haha well the performance/performance comment made little sense without context haha. I meant compared to previous gen (GTX680/GTX580) where the performance increase was less compared to the efficiency.

    My bad :)

    The 195w is the advertised because on average it will consume around that much. 225w is the limit of the dual 6 pin connectors on the PCI express lane, and Nvidias technology monitors power, temperature and many other variables. When overclocking can be applied, the OC reaches well over 1058mhz advertised too and also overvoltage, and in the end they end up reaching up to 225w maximum allowed.

    Keep in mind that if your case/temps and other factors does not allow boost, you do consume 195w or less as max consume.
     
    ryzeki, Mar 22, 2012
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