A few days ago I spoke to an nvda employee in arch (so not in marketing or logistics so he may be wrong about exact date), but he said the launch date would be in 2 weeks. He did not say if it was a paper launch though.
Sure sounds like so. :sneaky:
I have 3 keplers. I'm not going to prove it either. They rule, esp. in SLI. Microstutter is gone. They no longer use AFR. They use IBM (idiots believe me). OMG, They use 1 watt at full load.
I will believe no rumors till there is a launch.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I absolutely agree there is no proof whatsoever of this. I was merely saying that the wording used does indeed imply that OBR thinks that sites have cards at the moment.
On a side note. the egg has no 6970 and 6950 in stock.
If it's GTX680 then the rumor of being 45-50% faster than GTX580 is true. Based on rumors, again, they have two GK104 so a GTX670 is also predictable. 680 better than the 7970 and 670 better than the 7950. Do you think they will price them higher?
Nah, I meant what I said. Nvidia cards retail for more than AMD cards of similar performance. Additionally, one of the things I noticed while shopping around for a video card a few weeks ago were the prices for both brands, used. Nvidia cards hold their value a lot better than AMD cards. People willingly pay more for them. They are worth more.
On a side note. the egg has no 6970 and 6950 in stock.
If it's GTX680 then the rumor of being 45-50% faster than GTX580 is true. Based on rumors, again, they have two GK104 so a GTX670 is also predictable. 680 better than the 7970 and 670 better than the 7950. Do you think they will price them higher?
You are looking at a 1996 KIA chassis with two Dodge Viper RT HEMI V10 engines in it.
At this point, I would prefer a paper launch. Nvidia has done a tremendous job keeping verifiable specs and performance figures from leaking, so paper launching 1-3 weeks ahead of product availability would be great given the the security around GK104.
Their worthy valueable flagship pcb GTX590 exploded when you over volted it until they put tighter forced TDP throttling and OCP into the drivers. Where is the value? In the benchmarks and game support for sure. Remember that those valuable bumpgate fcbga require an oven for longevity, so include the cost of the oven too :0. Can't remember any "I baked my ati card" threads.
Check this out... it has the same "worth" as the inside of a TI-85.
edit: for those wondering, what you are seeing here is the lowest number of cheapest possible fets, mosfets, power ics, inductors and caps they could put on their board. They are the of the lowest quality, and cheapest price, in fewest quantitiy. This is how they design their "worthy" top of the line product. You are looking at a 1996 KIA chassis with two Dodge Viper RT HEMI V10 engines in it.
I *REALLY* advise you not use a car analogy again. Because when you get things as wrong as you just did, it really detracts from the point you were trying to make.
And to let you know where you messed up... The V10 in a Viper is not a hemi. Chrysler uses the "HEMI" marketing term for its line of 5.7-6.6L V8's.
I *REALLY* advise you not use a car analogy again. Because when you get things as wrong as you just did, it really detracts from the point you were trying to make.
And to let you know where you messed up... The V10 in a Viper is not a hemi. Chrysler uses the "HEMI" marketing term for its line of 5.7-6.6L V8's.
I *REALLY* advise you not use a car analogy again. Because when you get things as wrong as you just did, it really detracts from the point you were trying to make.
And to let you know where you messed up... The V10 in a Viper is not a hemi. Chrysler uses the "HEMI" marketing term for its line of 5.7-6.6L V8's.
Reality and facts have very little to do with subjective values. The Geforce brand name is worth more than the Radeon brand name, woodscrews, housefires, driver nukes and all.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"**
**the beholder can be an idiot sometimes
Now we have people who actually want a paper launch!!! I've seen it all.
GK104 will be very lucky to be more than 10% faster than Tahiti XT. Tahiti XT is 60% faster than GF114, so looking at this from an engineering point of view you'd have to be very optimistic to think GK104 will be anything more than just slightly faster than Tahiti XT. If I'm honest, I'll put the GTX 680 at being anything from 10% slower to 10% faster than the HD 7970.
We'll have to see how much value NVIDIA brings to the table, because in performance they definitely won't wipe the floor with the HD 7970.
Now we have people who actually want a paper launch!!! I've seen it all.
There are many leaks indicating GK104 around 7950 in performance. Tons of leaks saying this. Far more than anything Kyle may have said, and he mentioned only canned benchmarks at that. I'm fairly certain that a 256 bit memory bus GK104, there's no way that it is 50% higher.
Weird because I have not seen any leaked benchmarks... at all.