Where did you get this from? Because I can't seem to find anything about the GTX 680 on Steam's hardware survey site...Yet the 680 somehow managed to outsell all Pitcairn parts (according to Steam). What magic is this!?
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M +0.28%
Intel HD Graphics 3000 +0.23%
Intel HD Graphics +0.21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 +0.18%
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express +0.18%
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 +0.16%
ATI Radeon HD 5450 +0.14%
ATI Radeon HD 6310 %+0.14%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M +0.14%
ATI Radeon HD 7800 Series +0.10%
Yet the 680 somehow managed to outsell all Pitcairn parts (according to Steam). What magic is this!?
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M +0.28%
Intel HD Graphics 3000 +0.23%
Intel HD Graphics +0.21%
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 +0.18%
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express +0.18%
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 +0.16%
ATI Radeon HD 5450 +0.14%
ATI Radeon HD 6310 %+0.14%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M +0.14%
ATI Radeon HD 7800 Series +0.10%
Where did you get this from? Because I can't seem to find anything about the GTX 680 on Steam's hardware survey site...
by Charlie Demerjian.......From SemiAccurate: "Why can’t Nvidia supply Kepler/GK104/GTX680? TSMC is blameless, Kepler is a self-inflicted wound."
Couldn't they have picked a more annoying place for the power connectors? jesus! Put them in the front bracket next time Nvidia!
I think it's because the PCB is that short. Don't know why they went with such an oversized cooler.
Big LOL , isn't it always ? we all know Fermi is a broken and unfixable architecture .From SemiAccurate: "Why can’t Nvidia supply Kepler/GK104/GTX680? TSMC is blameless, Kepler is a self-inflicted wound."
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.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.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
edit: Oh, I see that 7800 series summed result for both cards only appears there which is kind of strange.
by Charlie Demerjian.......
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.
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.