No, if it doesn't require you to upgrade your circuit breaker, its not high end.
Obviously.
As far as i'm aware, nvidia specifically sought to make the kepler their most power efficient GPU ever.
As predicted, they all bashed AMD for their pricing, but when Nvidia provided the same lackluster performance improvement over their 580, it's suddenly TAKE MY MONEY NAO.
No, if it doesn't require you to upgrade your circuit breaker, its not high end.
Obviously.
Looking at the bigger picture, I think ultimately we still haven’t moved very far on the price/performance curve compared to where we’ve gone in past generations, and on that basis this is one of the smaller generational jumps we've seen for a GTX x80 product
Power users should wait for BigK :whiste:
Nvidia got a lot of perf/watt out of GK104 by cutting out the GPGPU. They still need a card to replace fermi in HPC, GK104 is slower than GF110 in that regard.
Power users should wait for BigK :whiste:
Power users will buy 7970/680 now and dump them when 8970/780 get released to get those.
"Power user" typically denotes someone who wants the latest and greatest at product release... not people who buy, for example, mid range year old parts :whiste:
Again with the personal attack... lol
Your setup is slower than mine "power user".
I would call someone a power user who actually knows what they're doing and increases performance well past what stock provided them regardless of what they paid for the product.
You can't do that with a 6+6 voltage limited 680.
As predicted, they all bashed AMD for their pricing, but when Nvidia provided the same lackluster performance improvement over their 580, it's suddenly TAKE MY MONEY NAO.
Yep I'm still waiting for all the backlash for nV pricing their "midrange" card at $500...
*crickets*
Why aren't the power users already using quad 580's with a cascade to hit 1100+MHz?
Some power users like myself hate multigpu, like myself. I can't stand microstutter.
Oh boy, more talk of the GTX 470's that thought they could.
Balla has Tri 470s doesn't he? Tri 470s > Single 680
No just highly clocked SLI, which he knows is faster than stock 580 SLI and the 680 is only 36% faster than a single 580.
He's fully aware that they're faster, he just like to troll for infractions.
Your setup is slower than mine "power user".
What's interesting?
Are you misreading things again, like the ABT graphs?
Dude, Sli is just as bad. My 480 setup was as noticeable as my 5870 setup
There is no wall from 2x6pin connectors. Just because they are spec'd @ 75W in no way prevents them from passing more power.
Now, improving the power stages, which includes the connectors, can, and does, help O/C'ing. Generally though it's not much except in extreme cases, LN2, for example. Having a 6+8 or 2x8 pin connectors is not going to open up some magical O/C'ing window.
Biggest factor is locked voltage, really. I'm not sure why [H] review puts the 680 as OC/OV, you can't volt this thing yourself lol.
That TF3 680 is the same bs, locked voltage. Windforce 680, same thing. Most promising one so far looks to be the Zotac Extreme Edition, default voltage of that is around 1.212V which is higher than the current max on the reference cards.