Introducing the GeForce GTX 680 GPU
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http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/introducing-the-geforce-gtx-680-gpu?sf3580994=1/
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=gtx+680&x=0&y=0
I am still on a 8800gt 512mb video card my self, this GTX 680 is just looking good
Anyone plan to get this?
I see newegg has some for sale and coming soon from the link i posted above.
Wanting to get a DX11 card but for $499 range i may get a older DX11 card that should be cheaper now.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=gtx+680&x=0&y=0
I am still on a 8800gt 512mb video card my self, this GTX 680 is just looking good
Anyone plan to get this?
I see newegg has some for sale and coming soon from the link i posted above.
Wanting to get a DX11 card but for $499 range i may get a older DX11 card that should be cheaper now.
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Yep i get emails from newegg all the time, they have decent sales.
I will have to try the slickdeals email sign up sounds good.
I was thinking about a GTX 560 ti card for $200 range or little less if i wait.
Thinking all video card prices will drop since the GTX 680 came out this week.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=877&Itemid=72
http://3dvision-blog.com/7516-the-new-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-kepler-finally-making-an-appearance/
( after all isn't metro2033 the new "will it run in crysis?" since crysis 2 )
2 gigs of memory?
Sounds incremental when 1500 was a roadblock for 3dvision surround with Battlfield3's heavy gbuffer requirement.
I am definitely going to tri sli eventually ( jes cus I am a gear addict and my soul will kill any sleep till I do )
But I am betting/hoping that there will be a 3gig version eventually just like the 580s. and will upgrade as soon as evga comes out with that version.
( I usually prefer reference boards for 3rd party waterblock fun )
I am hoping that the benchmarks are indicative of drivers that are not close to leveraging the cards power. Otherwise the promise of 4 times the power of fermi was grossly exxagerated? :poly121:
On the other hand, I still am excited about maxwell which does not seem that far off into the future.
( still have my fingers crossed that next generation of consoles have power equal to what is touted in a Haswell/maxwell combination. considering they will both be released probably within a year of each other )
It would be sad if consoles were crippled performance-wise?? comparitively right out of the gate?
I remember when the 500 series came out, the 1st set of drivers that supported them didn't allow for "High Quality" rendering mode in Maya ie:displaying normal maps and that didn't get rectified until 2-3 months later.
I think this is a good card, although it was supposed to be the replacement for the 560, but when Nvidia realized it was able to beat/compete with the 7970, they jacked up the price by $200 and named it the 680.
Maybe that means that the 680 drops by quite a bit when the GK110 releases.
That sounds like the same horror story I have been hearing?:poly122:
For the last 3 months the 560 replacement was supposed to be released first in the $3xx dollar price range. And were touted with the same performance numbers we are seeing with the 680.
If true, such a flash of contemptous greed makes me want to puke.
Talking of Ivy Bridge i read it was delayed until second half of 2013.
I think this happened because Intel has no competition right now.
Well thats Ivy Bridge-E, which is a sort of performance oriented version, and considering that Sandy Bridge-E (X79 Chipset) only launched around the beginning of this year it isn't too bad.
Ivy Bridge for 1155 socket mobos launches April 29th, with some dual core versions launching in June.
Delaying progress just to make more money... :poly118:
At this rate I'll never see space!
Maybe at the end of this year??
I wonder if earlier rumors that a gtx 780 release will actually pan out?
I woul certainly jump at the chance for the original chip advertised!
Hmmm..
will there be a GTX 780 before the end of the year?
I would easily tri sli that on a day 1 purchase!!!
http://wccftech.com/leaked-nvidia-generation-performance-slide-pits-upcoming-flagship-gk100-kepler-based-geforce-gtx-780-gtx-580/
Maybe on a GTX 550 ti or 560 ti model which i like either.
Just wanting it for DX 11 so i mess around with it in UDK and maybe a little gaming.
Also i read somewhere about DX 11.1, anyone know much about it?
I don't see any practical improvement I could gain from these newer cards.
Feels like I would waste a lot of money, since I doubt that even a 780 GTX would support whatever the newest Direct X version will be by then. But I'm open for a surprise.
Considering how much money I might waste.. that is a very important consideration...
I am hoping the next generation of consoles require a major hardware upgrade.
( can the revolution please begin? please? )
And I would buy expecting my next investment to last throughout that next cycle ( even though I would probably upgrade multiple time in that period, I usually keep a renderfarm of boxes in rotation ) Would be a shame if directx 12 did not come out till maxwell?
Otherwise I agree. If Maxwell and the nextgen of consoles are being released at the same time around 2014 and no other hardware will support the shading languages used...
then why bother?
Also, now the 560 Ti will drop in price considerably
I don't think ANY generation of cards lasted as long as the 8800 series did before being dropped.
That depends on what you consider a demanding game that you would be upgrading for in the first place.
If you wanted to assure an ideal average of at least 60fps...
Benchmarks showing metro 2033 at far below that at 1920x1080 is a bit depressing.
( as well as some Batman AC benchmarks I have seen as well as Crysis Warhead
Hopefully the Kepler supercard is just hiding till driver optimizations expose it's true power.
For a an enthusiast nut who prefers multi-monitor and 3d...
This is hardly the card that would finally allow me to run at 6050x1080 without any slowdown in 120hz or 3d.
Thinking ahead for a configuration that could easily power a next geeration console requirement...
( The best of what is possible today representing what seems like an incremental upgrade does not inspire confidence in a console generation that might have untold levels of geomerics ray tracing fidelity, expensive soft dynamic shadows whose equally expensive filtering assured accuracy without acne or huge bone counts for mega fun muscle system fantasies )
Moores law sure does seem to have hit a huge sticky plasma wall... ( between depressing ivy numbers and kepler, I am holding out for haswell and maxwell which do not seem so far off into the future really )
with a standard resolution like 1920x1080 HD the gtx680 only represents 6 more frames a second over a gtx 580 in crysis? ( and still does not reach an ideal rate 60fps unless you overclock... thank god for overclocking )
A little better distance between the flagship models in metro 2033:
but at 45 fps kepler does not seem to represent a huge advancement in hardware power like it was being touted ( 1.5x - 2x the power of fermi? )