GTX680's -- go get 'em!

[tviceman]

HELL YES!!!!! This entirely flies in the face of EVERYONE who said Nvidia would not undercut AMD with a faster performing part. The first shot over 28nm price wars has begun!

 

[ocre]

or it might just be that Nvidia has delivered on giving us a much better value. Performance per dollar is significantly improved over the 40nm cards and AMDs current 28nm.

Everyone should be grateful for what Nvidia has done as now even AMDs line up should quickly shift down to be in line. The 680 is 15-20% faster than the 7970 and its 50$ cheaper. The 7970 will go down dramatically. This kind of stuff rarely happens. Nvidia is making the 28nm a better value and not just pricing this card in line with the 40nm performance. This should be what everyone wants, the much needed price shift that will benefit us all!!!

 

[BallaTheFeared]

HELL YES!!!!! This entirely flies in the face of EVERYONE who said Nvidia would not undercut AMD with a faster performing part. The first shot over 28nm price wars has begun!

AMD : You've sunk my battleship!

 

[RussianSensation]

So shaders are still 2x core speed?

Was this known and I was just out of the loop?

I think that's an error.

You'd have a card with 1536 SP x 2012 Shader clocks = 6.2 Tflops SP performance. Unless of course each SP can only do 1 Op/cycle vs. 2 Ops for Fermi.

 

[tviceman]

What if they are this Price because they are slower than 7970?

Or what if they are cheaper because they're 50mm^2 smaller, have 1 less gig of vram, and a tiny bit simpler PCB but are still faster overall?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Well of course Nvidia had to lower prices. AMD was just taking advantage of the situation and pricing the 7970 high while they could to make as much money as possible.

 

[RussianSensation]

Or what if they are cheaper because they're 50mm^2 smaller, have 1 less gig of vram, and a tiny bit simpler PCB but are still faster overall?

Probably a lot simpler PCB - only need 2x6-pin power connectors (so likely will only need 4 power phases), 256-bit needs less pins on the die than a 384-bit bus.

Just thinking out loud: NV made $581 Million in 2011 selling humongous 520mm^2 GTX570/580 with 320/384-bit buses and 332mm^2 GTX560/GTX560Ti cards with 256-bit buses.

Now they are going to sell a 294mm^2 chip on 256-bit for $500. :sneaky:

Should we invest in their stock or what?

 

[Ieat]

Hmm evga no longer offering lifetime warranties? Their gtx 680 ends with KR.

 

[battletoad]

I ordered before the deactivation, and got a confirmation email, then a 2nd email saying my card was successfully charged and order verification was now complete.

SHould I expect Newegg to ship these to me, or do I need to sit at my k/b refreshing from now until midnight, and risk having both the original order and a 2nd one both go through and break my wallet?

Never had this happen before....

 

[BallaTheFeared]

They'll ship it tomorrow morning as they normally would assuming the NDA drops tonight and they go on sale for realz tomorrow.

 

[battletoad]

oh that's great. I was afraid they would just cancel the order and make me cross my fingers that I got lucky and placed an order in the 30 seconds they are in stock once they list them again.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Or they could cancel it...

I dunno, but logically if it's on sale tomorrow for real I see no reason to cancel the order since it won't process until tomorrow anyways.

 

[Jen]

sigh a bit late ,


Jen

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Hi Jen, you ever sell that blue rad?

 

[sandorski]

might be cheaper because they are 2gb vram instead of the 7970s 3GB

True enough.

 

[SirPauly]

Probably a lot simpler PCB - only need 2x6-pin power connectors (so likely will only need 4 power phases), 256-bit needs less pins on the die than a 384-bit bus.

Just thinking out loud: NV made $581 Million in 2011 selling humongous 520mm^2 GTX570/580 with 320/384-bit buses and 332mm^2 GTX560/GTX560Ti cards with 256-bit buses.

Now they are going to sell a 294mm^2 chip on 256-bit for $500. :sneaky:

Should we invest in their stock or what?

That's great stuff, thanks for taking the time!

 

[Silverforce11]

HELL YES!!!!! This entirely flies in the face of EVERYONE who said Nvidia would not undercut AMD with a faster performing part. The first shot over 28nm price wars has begun!

Let's hope its faster and cheaper, I don't like being ripped off by either companies selling their small dies for big die prices.

 

[SirPauly]

Let's hope its faster and cheaper, I don't like being ripped off by either companies selling their small dies for big die prices.

Small dies for monolithic pricing seems to be the new strategy, sadly! Hopefully, this is more cost, yield, constraint related and more an exception to the rule and not pricing to look forward to.

 

[Subyman]

gotta get my order in at midnight

 

[Don Karnage]

Feel like an idiot buying 7970's but thankfully some poor sap bought them for 500 a piece today. Bring on the 680's

 

[Elganja]

gotta get my order in at midnight

pst or est... wonder what they'll do

 

[rgallant]

Well of course Nvidia had to lower prices. AMD was just taking advantage of the situation and pricing the 7970 high while they could to make as much money as possible.

-just saying

a 580 evga 3gb was apox. $580.00 when the 7970 came out and mostly out of stock.
yet people screamed because the 7970 was only 30% faster [stock] and only $30.00 cheaper .
but yet this 680 is the holy grail of gpu's
- 7970\680 they look the same to me ,with out any real benches. but one did come with a $25-$50.00 built in MIR.

 

[Rvenger]

http://www.newegg.com/GTX680/?nm_mc=...rd-_-promoword

 

[tweakboy]

1k for SLI in 2012... thats a great deal.... gg

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Faster... Smoother... Richer (I assume they mean they are, because I'd be poorer)