NVIDIA Kepler speculation thread

Steam hasn't exactly been flawless of their execution in terms of their hardware survey. In fact I don't even get those numbers off their current survey.

 

True, sure beats the alternative though which is bupkus

 

Where did you get this from? Because I can't seem to find anything about the GTX 680 on Steam's hardware survey site...

 

Look under the DX10/11 section. It's the second box.

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/165252/MSI-GeForce-GTX-670-Pictured-Up-Close.html

GTX 670 coming soon.

 

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/

It is interesting that they show no actual data about 7870 and 7850, looks like those cards don't exist in the period.
But, you have:

DX10/11 Systems (Vista/Win7 + DX10/11 GPU)

ATI Radeon HD 7950 - --------- 0.02% 0.14% 0.12% (((((((-0.02%)))))))
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 ---- ----- ----- 0.04% 0.22% ((((((+0.18%))))))))
ATI Radeon HD 7970 - 0.04% 0.22% 0.34% 0.36% ((((((((+0.02%)))))))

Do you see the trend, looks like there is an obvious slow down in sales. At least for AMD.

edit: Oh, I see that 7800 series summed result for both cards only appears there which is kind of strange.

 

by Charlie Demerjian.......

 

There is Galaxy GTX 680 at stock on Newegg right now. First time I see one in there. Let's see how long it lasts.

edit: I think they only have 1, because it says 2 per customer, but it says insufficient stock if I try to put 2 in the basket.

 

Kepler vs. Fermi in PhysX

 

Thank goodness, they went for a radial fan after all.

Here's hoping they will be closer to 350 than 400 and the vrm will be decent.

Couldn't they have picked a more annoying place for the power connectors? jesus! Put them in the front bracket next time Nvidia!

Thanks for the news man.

 

I think it's because the PCB is that short. Don't know why they went with such an oversized cooler.

 

Recent nV Reference Designs coolers seem to focus on lower noise emissions, so that might be the reason. A silent DHE cooler wold be nice.

 

Big LOL , isn't it always ? we all know Fermi is a broken and unfixable architecture .

 

Interesting, and it makes more sense in light of the HD 7970 sales. In fact, I'm really surprised that the HD 7970 and GTX 680 line up so closely in their first two months on the charts. But either way this seems to indicate that NV really isn't having volume problems: they're pumping out roughly the same volume as the 7970 has sold, but demand far exceeds this volume.

 

I have make the round in all their surveys,, it look obvious, they have not collect enough data for be accurate..

7970 who is the longer time here, continue increase: 0.02 > 0.4% in April ...

But then it is hard to find 7870 sometimes it appears sometimes not. With early cards some are maybe detected by driver and not by name correctly.. dont know ( 5% of DX11 cards are detected as other )

 

Is availability still as bad in the US as he describes? Here in germany, you can buy the cards from almost every shop you want and from different vendors to boot.

 

It's pretty much unavailable at or near MSRP.

 

Tridam's just published an article about GPU Boost, revisited: http://www.hardware.fr/focus/65/gpu-boost-gtx-680-double-variabilite.html

Basically, his press sample was qualified up to 1110MHz while retail cards may be limited to 1097, 1084, 1071, or perhaps as low as 1058MHz. So he benched a random retail card against his press sample, measured a 1.5% difference on average, up to 5% in Anno 2070.

 

Interesting. I think this is where the early speculations of PhysX magic hardware came from. When you see a supposedly 300$ gaming card doing PhysX twice as fast than previous flagship and you *don't know* about changes in the architecture I guess it's easy to conclude there is some secret sauce inside. But it's just PhysX code being able to efficiently take advantage of the computational resources, while not being affected by the introduced limitations in compute capabilities at all.

That being said, a GK107 desktop card would make an awesome PhysX accelerator when they come out

 

Im sad to see what some of us was worry about on 680 release is finally, not far of the reality. ofc the difference is limited, and me and other will certainly pass over and forget it. Most will increase the Power limit, and so negate this.

Now this is with a card who is qualified with a boost at 1084mhz ( vs 1110mhz on press card ), if you fall on a card who is limited at 1058mhz ( i think have seen one on Guru3D ), the difference will be a bit more.