[TT] NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 2GB Video Card Performance Preview - Page 25  

Originally Posted by Arizonian 

Only thing is just like the 7950 not performing better than the 7970 when really over clocked as everyone thought it would at first and turned out it wasn't. You will find the same with the 670 actually not performing as well as a 680 when both are overclocked to thier maximum cores in real world over clocks unlike these reviews.
What you'll find though is a lower price point just like the 7950 that makes it a better price performance card. You pay more premium for the 7970 for little gains. The 670 to be a success will be priced similarly vs the 680 to meet that price perfomance market that dosent nessesarily need the absolute highest performance nor want to pay for it.

Originally Posted by Cloudfire777 

AMD did the right thing: The difference between a 7970 and 7950 is 15-18%.
Nvidia did the strange thing: The difference between a 680 and a 670 is about 5%-ish
I don`t get it. Perhaps they have a secret plan of removing the 680 from the market, and then reintroducing the "new" 680, $75 cheaper.
"Take that AMD"

Originally Posted by djriful 

On the other hand Radeon is getting owned by 2 cards over 7970. Last thing left for them is 7990 to compete and also it's a no wonder why they are going to release Ghz edition of 7970 soon.

I feel bad for the early owner of 7970 that they paid $600+ ... now it's about $475...

Originally Posted by jcde7ago 

People really, really need to chillax....
680 owners, there's really no reason to panic here. The 670 has an entire SM disabled. DISABLED. That's 192 cores less than a 680. Tell me how it's physically possible for the 670 to perform ONLY less than 5% the performance of a stock 680 with an entire SM disabled?
Let's wait a week for more people to get a hold of the 670 and more benchmarks to come out. Right now, it's incredibly hard to determine what information is correct information, because we don't know without a shadow of a doubt what the STOCK clock speed of the 670 is and what might be a FACTORY OC clock speed. That's a huge difference, for example, when we've seen TT with a 915mhz clocked 670, vs. Gigabyte's Factory OC'd 670 at 980mhz. Kepler gets VERY nice boosts even at 10mhz increments.
Not to mention, because of a disabled SM, it's possible that the gpu boost is allowing a higher clock speed boost on the 670 than what a 680 might normally bump up to, unless done so manually, because keeping temps. cool is a BIG part of Kepler's OC ability and dynamic clocking will stop at certain temperature thresholds.
The 680 is going to still come out on top. No doubt about it. I think all of this speculation about how good the 670 is is being blown out of proportion. Yes, it is a ridiculously good card based on what we've seen. And if it drops at $400? Game changer. However, until I see some max OCs on 670s compared to the performance of some max OCs on 680s, there's no reason to panic. I think we'll all see that the 680 will eventually end up on top when all is said and done by AT LEAST 10% or so, and then the pricing debate can begin. But until then...keep your 680s and untangle your panties, folks.

Originally Posted by tr4656 

Actually it may not be a entire SM disabled.
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