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Originally Posted by GreenNeon 
God, I hate all this diarrhea about the 680s being mid range cards, they're not. The GK110 cores were reserved for the FX cards because of the specs being more suited towards physics, CAD and rendering calculations. It's just not needed for a consumer who simply wants to play games.
Yes, they may have held out releasing a faster core and rebranding it but at the end of the day it competes at the same or above the 7970. Clearly then, it's a high-end card, not because of the price, but because it competes with the opposing high end cards.
God, I hate all this diarrhea about the 680s being mid range cards, they're not. The GK110 cores were reserved for the FX cards because of the specs being more suited towards physics, CAD and rendering calculations. It's just not needed for a consumer who simply wants to play games.
Yes, they may have held out releasing a faster core and rebranding it but at the end of the day it competes at the same or above the 7970. Clearly then, it's a high-end card, not because of the price, but because it competes with the opposing high end cards.
No one was talking about the "680" card. Everyone was talking about gk104 that was in the pipeline years ago as yes a midrange GPU. And no lol, nVidia royally screwed up GK100 interconnect, not GK110.
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