HWCanucks GTX 680 review

Nvidia just announced the GTX 690… and it's fucking ridiculous.

Dual-chip card
3072 processing cores
4 GB RAM
$1000

http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=32822

Originally Posted by JDR13
Nvidia just announced the GTX 690… and it's fucking ridiculous.

Dual-chip card
3072 processing cores
4 GB RAM
$1000

http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=32822

Well your paying for two high end video cards together on one board. Still your right it's ridiculous.

I'm in no hurry to upgrade myself, however that dual card is monstrous…

For those who prefer a single powerful gfx core gpu configuration you should check out Zotac's Extreme edition:

http://en.expreview.com/2012/04/08/z…iew/22203.html

With core voltage adjustable to 1.5v max, highest GPU clock achieved under air cooling is 1.4GHz (@1.35v).

Quite beastly, IMO.

On less ridiculous news:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-670-review/

Nvidia finally gave up trying to get acceptable yields in high binned chips it seems.

The moment I can get one of these babies in the 400 euro area (I'll probably get it around 320-340 in discount ) I'll pull the trigger methinks…

^ Yeah, the GTX 670 is looking really good… One would expect non-reference designs in the upcoming months that take advantage of the short PCB. Which would be great for a media center and SFF gaming mATX/mITX PCs.

The actual PCB length on this video card is under 7 inches.

http://hardocp.com/article/2012/05/1…o_card_review/

Rumor has it that what we know as the 680 and 670 gtx were actually intended to be upper mid-range cards… The codenames(and aforementioned PCB length + die size) kind of gives that away if you look at previous naming conventions:

GF104 -> 460
GF114 -> 460 v2, 560, 560 ti

GF100 -> 470, 480 (and a 465 with 4 SM cores disable/cut)
GF110 -> 570, 580, 590 (and a "448 core" 560 has 2 SM cores disabled/cut)

Fast forward from GeForce 400 + 500 to the 600 series:

GK104 -> 670, 680, 690
GK110 -> ???

Long story short, I believe Nvidia has wrangled in big fat margins on GK104 and likely has a ton of pricing flexibility(especially on the 670). Once production and capacity pick up we should hopefully find ourselves in a consumer friendly price war(assuming NV + AMD don't engage in collusion/price fixing of some sort).

-EDIT-

They are currently available on Newegg ranging between $399.99 to $439.99.