The card is finally out: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=gtx+680&x=25&y=9 Reviews: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_680/ http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-review/ http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/46..._reference_card_video_card_review/index1.html http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=877&Itemid=72 http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1881/1/ http://techreport.com/articles.x/22653 http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2012/03/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-2gb-review/1 http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-gtx-680-2gb-overclocking-review-win-some-lose-some/15322.html Looks like this is the high end card to buy now. A bit cheaper than AMD's offering and better performance too
Not really a fan of Tom's Hardware so I didnt forget it It seems though that if you are overclocking, the 7970 is still a better card. It scales far better than the 680 does. When the 680 is OCed to 1335MHz and the 7970 is OCed to 1250MHz they are actually pretty close in performance. So if you overclock both card to around 1.4GHz (achievable on both cards without TOO much work) then the 7970 wins. But it still costs more, so up to you whether the extra money and work to overclock is worth the performance.
To each their own. Thanks for the post though. Also, don't let the naming scheme fool you, this is NOT the successor for the 580.
erock... you'll let us know if microcenter does a sale these new cards or the older gtx 570/580's a day or two ahead of time, right....
I want two 590s to do quad SLI SON! Mebe the release of the 600 series will drop the price of 590s? I can hope.
Hope you will have a CPU to feed those then! They might not drop much, they are kind of a niche product. The rest of the 500 series yes probably.
Right now i'm still using the 965 Black Box edition AMD proc, it's not to shabby. By the time I upgrade i'm sure I will go some sort of 8 core Black Box AMD proc.
You do realise that your current processor is actually more powerful for gaming than the newer 8-core parts right? You would actually lose a chunk of FPS if you bought the bigger CPU
Yeah that is why I'm waiting for the 8 cores to even out. I'm thinking in like 3 months or so would be a good time.
It probably wont be till November before something maybe decent will be out from AMD. That is when "Piledriver" is supposed to hit for the enthusiast market which will bring a bit of IPC increase as well as (hopefully) significant power decrease due to some new technologies AMD is implementing. Hopefully Global Foundries will smooth out its process node by then too as that will have a lot to do with power consumption.
