NVIDIA Kepler speculation thread

The steam numbers are largely meaningless. In the past 3-4 years I've owned 2x4870, 4x5870, 6x5850, 4x6950, 4x6970 and now 4x7970s and not once I've opted in for their hardware survey. The only thing that the survey measures is the desire to show off your purchases.

 

Very short PCB for a $399 high-end product: http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1894715-1-1.html

 

Yes it's meaningless because you are way more important than the hundreds of thousands of people who do take the survey....lol.

 

As if we needed any more evidence of nVidia's original intentions for GK104.

 

This sort of situation only ruins their results if people who tend to buy certain sorts of hardware are also more likely to opt-out of the hardware survey.

 

Yes, aside from the myriad of actual flaws their hardware survey tends to have. That said, we should probably leave this discussion to another thread.

So back on topic, today Newegg actually have an MSI 680 in stock (limit 2 per customer so they have at least 2 atm).

<edit> and they're gone

 

As far as I can tell there are getting less 680's as time goes on, not more.

Never seen anything remotely like this. I feel like if another company had done this, there'd be no end to the world-is-ending kvetching over it. But this, people dont even talk about in a negative way.

 

So pretty much as expected. Whereas you get consistent performance with AMD cards, you have luck of the draw and variable performance with the Nvidia cards. So luck of the draw whether you get a faster or slower card than your friend.

I'll take consistent performance that matches reviews and take the risk of overclocking myself if that's what I want, over variable performance making GPU reviews meaningless any day of the week.

And either reviewers just got lucky (statistically) or they were all sent the best performing parts available in order to conduct their reviews. And while up to 5% difference may be small. When compared in reviews would reviews showing a 10-15% advantage be nearly as convincing if it was only showing a 5-10% advantage? Or potentially even lower depending on if you got a particularly bad GPU sample.

I think if you look at his post history with regards to this you'll see he thought it was due to Nvidia's inability to get GK100 out. And like me, thinks that Nvidia got really really luck that Tahiti didn't perform significantly better.

Nvidia was laughing out of relief as they had nothing on hand or in the near future to counter Tahiti had it performed better.

Regards,
SB

 

It's hard to tell if it's better or worse. You can find them readily enough if you're willing to pay way above msrp.

 

Have you tried to buy one and weren't able to do so? What do you want people to be negative about? All the people (on this board) who seem very concerned aren't even trying to purchase a 680.....

Hard evidence of decent volumes (Steam) is quickly dismissed but we should be kvetching over what exactly?

 

I was trying to buy one. Went for a 7970 instead being it was cheaper and available.

And just to get onto what Rangers was talking about, you had a problem with the 7970 volumes, but they sold roughly the same amount in the same time frame (ie.first 6 weeks of availability) according to steam.

 

This one is amusing though. Reminds me to what I saw before

 

I would love for you to quote me calling for people to complain about lack of 7970 availability.

 

2560 X 1600





NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4 GB

 

in Add :
Lab501 review
http://lab501.ro/placi-video/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review

Guru3D review:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-690-review/

 

Hmm, is there a performance plateau on the 680s around 1000mhz? What happened to the 10% difference in core clock? Is it simply that the TDP is much lower than the 300W limit that the 690 GPUs are being upclocked anyway?

 

Improvements in micro-stutter and great to see:

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/...dia-geforce-gtx-690/8/#abschnitt_mikroruckler

 

Interesting. Wonder why it's so much better than 680-SLI. Maybe I'll get one of these to kick around until the real Kepler shows up.

 

Looks like it. The sample computerbase.de had hit 1020-1050 Mhz almost all the time. A 993 MHz hiccup in Anno 2070 was the lowest clock observed.