Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Version *HANDS ON* - Page 57

My Asus 680 arrived today.

Here is the 3DMark run at completely stock speeds, for comparison to the 670:

9962 GPU score.





And overclocked: 1260MHz max boost, 11470 GPU score. I think it can still OC a bit higher, will try later tonight.


Edited by 996gt2 - 5/8/12 at 4:15pm

This is why I think there is more evidence to show that the GTX680 was meant to be a 660ti and the 670 was the 660. Which is why we see such little difference between them!
Which means that the 660ti will be a 650ti. - If my theory is correct!

Now this theory makes some sense, as there's definitely historical precedence for something similar (i.e. the Gx1x4 chips being used at the x60 card tier ... see the 460/560 in Fermi). However, that's really not 'why' we see so little difference. The 'why' is simply that the two cards are identical aside from 14% more CUDA cores on the GTX680. All the previous 2nd tier cards had gimped memory subsystems (less ROP's, less bus width, less vram) as well as fewer cores.

If anything, the 'why' ... is that nV has copied AMD's strategy for the 2nd tier card ... one that AMD have used for all three DX11 card generations (5850/6950/7950). In all cases, the 2nd tier card is the same architecturally as it's big brother, aside from a disabled cluster.

I think it's fairly obvious that unfortunately nV weren't able to get GK100 (which would've been our 670/680 chip in this first Kepler generation) working in time, and they discovered that the GK104 at high enough clocks was sufficient to challenge AMD 79xx-series anyways, so they converted GK104 to the top-tier chip. That much is pretty much 'known' at this point, actually.

But the espoused notion (elsewhere on the thread) here that 'GK110 was supposed to be the 680 and GK104 was supposed to be the 670' makes no sense to me as a theory.

GK110 should be the next generation top-end chip, i.e. GTX770/780 (just as GF110 was the 2nd gen i.e. 570/580 in Fermi). However I'd not be surprised if it wasn't out as Tesla product first

MSI 670 reference card is available on tiger diret. Reasonable price and says in stock for shipping.

That's one damn ugly card.

Yeah it looks like nvidia spend all of it's aesthetics budget on the 690.

Here's a link if anyone cares:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2555843&CatId=2306

Wow it really is $400, well $409. I need some official reviews with the reference card.