NVIDIA Kepler speculation thread

[Man from Atlantis]

Hard to believe it is the same demo at the same settings. Unless its a GK100/110

yeah nothing is mentioned about res and settings, since a little bit of optimisation it could even run on a Ti500 no surprise :smile:

EDIT: There is an article just popped up on GeForce.com about this, looks like they used FXAA instead of MSAA @720p? with a 200W psu..

EDIT2:

kepler

 

[SimBy]

'Kepler' can't come soon enough, this marketing BS is getting old.

 

[Picao84]

yeah nothing is mentioned about res and settings, since a little bit of optimisation it could even run on a Ti500 no surprise :smile:

EDIT: There is an article just popped up on GeForce.com about this, looks like they used FXAA instead of MSAA @720p? with a 200W psu..

FXAA vs MSAA would probably also allow a single GTX580 to run it
Now the 200W PSU.. No way! With what CPU? Wouldnt a 35W CPU bottleneck a highend GPU? Unless that was running on a GK107 @ 720P!

 

[denev2004]

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/03/07/tsmc-suddenly-halts-28nm-production/

I hope thats Charlie's another BS

 

[3dilettante]

That was posted earlier.
I haven't seen any other news stories about this, outside of stories that are repeating the SA article.

 

[jlippo]

FXAA vs MSAA would probably also allow a single GTX580 to run it

Indeed.
I wonder if they changed how the beard was rendered as well, the tech slides showed quite bit aliasing without MSAA.

 

[AnarchX]

According to Epic Samritan used ~2,5 TFLOPs. Should it not go higher, if you move anti-aliasing from ROPs to ALUs?

 

[hoho]

4x MSAA basically means for every pixel that ends up on screen you run shaders and everything else 4x. Replacing MSAA with FXAA will cut the needed calculations by 4x and replacing it with a single relatively simple pass over the framebuffer.

 

[xDxD]

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...-off-unreal-engine-3-in-flash-and-kepler.aspx

 

[jlippo]

4x MSAA basically means for every pixel that ends up on screen you run shaders and everything else 4x. Replacing MSAA with FXAA will cut the needed calculations by 4x and replacing it with a single relatively simple pass over the framebuffer.

That would be SSAA.
Usually with deferred MSAA one does try to find edges and only shade needed sub-samples..

 

[Rangers]

There are currently just two 7970's in stock at newegg, the cheaper being $600 and the other $800. Add TSMC's problems and the odds of Kepler launching at bargain prices is closely approaching zero.

Yup.

Even if they launched at 399 they probably wouldn't remotely be able to keep it in stock anyway.

 

[Man from Atlantis]

already got the GK104 kind of card, to identify less than a model, the stream processors 1536, about 5% lower than the HD7970 in performance, seconds away relatively satisfied with the HD7950, temperature and noise, close to GTX560ti It is said that the price 3299-3499

http://weibo.com/fengke117

GTX670Ti

http://www.redquasar.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=7234&fromuid=1

 

[AnarchX]

Some report, that the Samaritan demo ran on an pre-production card with only one 6-pin power connector: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,8...al-Engine-4-Ende-des-Jahres/Grafikkarte/News/

140W TDP GTX 670 Ti?

 

[Gipsel]

Some report, that the Samaritan demo ran on an pre-production card with only one 6-pin power connector: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,8...al-Engine-4-Ende-des-Jahres/Grafikkarte/News/

140W TDP GTX 670 Ti?

They also report, the demo ran with 1080p resolution like on the three GTX580. But the screenshots provided by EPIC show a 720p resolution.

 

[xDxD]

Some report, that the Samaritan demo ran on an pre-production card with only one 6-pin power connector: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,8...al-Engine-4-Ende-des-Jahres/Grafikkarte/News/

140W TDP GTX 670 Ti?

Mmmm...do you believe in miracles?

 

[Picao84]

Looks like the GeForce branding is also having a make up:

http://chinese.vr-zone.com/11731/nvidia-geforce-gtx-brand-new-03082012/

 

[AnarchX]

Mmmm...do you believe in miracles?

Newer, sharper picture @ RedQuasar shows a connector tower with 2x 6-pin. Maybe they overlooked it on GDC and saw just the bottom one.

So probably no miracles, although Mark Rein looks with the card like an itinerant preacher.

 

[xDxD]

Newer, sharper picture @ RedQuasar shows a connector tower with 2x 6-pin. Maybe they overlooked it on GDC and saw just the bottom one.

ok, it already seems more closer to the rumors...

So probably no miracles, although Mark Rein looks with the card like an itinerant preacher.

Lol! :smile:

 

[gkar1]

I find it really funy how the card is wrapped in a sealed anti static bag and Rein is covering the woodscrew sides with his hands.

 

[fellix]

Card -- what card?

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