Why do we always have to go through this BS. [H] tends to be a pretty polarizing site, for some reason. Everytime someone says they like their reviews someone has to say they are total sh1t. It's a very good review site. It offers a unique perspective of the equipment. TPU is usefull too, but W1zzard uses heaps of outdated games and, usually, outdated drivers. He's usually not afraid though to pump some volts into the cards and see how far they will go. Very useful power numbers though. We could go on about the different sites. In the end, if one truly was difinitive, then, "there would only be one".
This gets even more tiring than nVidia vs. AMD.
I saw RussianSensation's list earlier and meant to comment on it, but I'll just throw out the sites that I typically use once a new card hits:
Anandtech
TechPowerup
HardwareCanucks
Sometimes I'll throw in [H], though that is very situational for me. For somebody like Grooveriding I can see them being useful at least. Oh, and Computerbase could very well be the best of the best, but I usually don't bother because, um, it's just too much of a pita to translate everything
500mm^2 GTX685? If GTX685 has 2304 SPs, 384-bit bus and proper DP performance, that's going to make GTX680 and HD7970 look like toys.
You know nV has a winner on its hands when people who normally rail against them are posting screenies of them ordering 2.
Kepler is a great chip. I can't wait until we see it at its full potential.
You know nV has a winner on its hands when people who normally rail against them are posting screenies of them ordering 2.
Kepler is a great chip. I can't wait until we see it at its full potential.
Good card. I like it, especially the thermals. I'm skipping this gen likely though...don't game enough to justify upgrading 2x6950s.
Reads reviews. Impressed. Checks wallet. Waits for GTX660.
Impressive results for sure.
AMD certainly shot itself in the foot not only with its pricing, but doubly so with its weak clocks on the 7970. It should have been at least 1GHz, but I assume they were holding out to release a more expensive uber-clocked version. So much for that idea...as far as a marketing win, nvidia's auto-overclocking, even if it limits headroom, makes for a huge win on paper versus the "potential" of the 7970. That wins sales, even if it doesn't win enthusiasts' hearts.
Plain and simple - the 7970 and especially the 7950 were fine products at terrible prices, and Nvidia is capitalizing on that, just as it should have done.
Thank goodness for competition - now if the 680 drops in price to where it was probably intended to fall ($300?), I'm in!
I am worried about the users that are running tri SLI and 4 way SLI. I really hope they are on 2011 or 1366 because regular SB and even IVB will probably kill the scaling in tri SLI.
Some overclocking results, Xfire and sli of some older cards (I Dont think AMD needs to drop prices). The GTX680 seems to be a one trick pony whereas HD7970 seems to be good at everything (Compute intensive work).
Why would it fall to $300 offering relative performance of $600? It's cheap at $500 compared to anything around it. GTX 580 on up.
NO way its going to be $300 anytime soon. It's sold out and we all know how great the yields and production are at TSMC /sarc.
These high prices will be furbar for a long time to come. No point holding out and wait any longer if you intend to upgrade from an older card.
Bravo, nVidia! You've beat AMD at their own small-die game.
What's with all the whining about the prices? Its faster then a 7970 and cheaper to boot. Everyone should be mad at amd for overpricing their cards