Nvidia Kepler (6XX-series) discussion

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

http://legitreviews.com/news/13188/

Turned out to be a false rumor.

[Drakoes]

I can't people believed rumors about it and acted as if the world is crashing down on them. It was later confirmed to be a false alarm fortunately, and I personally never believed it at the first place judging from its source.

Here's the confirmation from a much more reputed site: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...gradation.html

[Cyanotical]

I can't people believed rumors about it and acted as if the world is crashing down on them. It was later confirmed to be a false alarm fortunately, and I personally never believed it at the first place judging from its source.

Here's the confirmation from a much more reputed site: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...gradation.html

it hasn't helped that there have been reports from owners that seem to confirm this, but from the few that i've seen, they are running reference cards with either not enough airflow, or in a negative pressure case (bad), which will cause any card to overheat, regardless or brand, but when people see a rumor like this, and it matches their symptoms they cry foul

that doesn't change the fact that production output is severely low for the 600 series, even though they were a limited edition with tons of preorders, i was still able to order two 590 classy's from newegg, 680s are hard to find atm, let alone a 690, most being used for benchmarks and reviews are industry samples given to reviewers

[Rennadrel]

i'd like to see more 6xx period. everytime i look they are out of stock everywhere, except for the PNY ones, but nobody wants them anyways

The lack of lower price bracket models for builders from Nvidia really does hurt their profit margin in the long run. The more cards you have, the more customers you have access to. Right now AMD is dominating in the lower price brackets with some of their budget cards since they have no competition, which pretty much means that AMD can continue to build faster and faster budget cards without Nvidia competing with them. Maybe Nvidia just feels there isn't as much value in the lower end market.

[Xuvial]

EVGA GT640 recently came out and for the price it's performance is insultingly bad. AMD clearly have the lead with cards like 6670, 7750 and 7770 in the $80-140 range.

[kidsafe]

If you want any confirmation about how low 680 yields are just look at this graph.



Seriously what kind of metric is a "sell out rate?" There's not even a scale on the y-axis.

[Deleted]

Wasn't that chart just some rumor/photoshop or w/e? I don't know where I saw it posted/commented on before.

[Xuvial]

Wasn't that chart just some rumor/photoshop or w/e? I don't know where I saw it posted/commented on before.

http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/154...tre-an-gtx-580

[Rennadrel]

EVGA GT640 recently came out and for the price it's performance is insultingly bad. AMD clearly have the lead with cards like 6670, 7750 and 7770 in the $80-140 range.

If the 7770 had a little more oomph, I'd probably buy two of them for Crossfire. They don't beat out my 6870 for raw performance, they are actually pretty far behind in that regard and I wish AMD had a step up in the budget range like a 7790 or a 7830 that filled that price gap between the 150 dollar 7770 and the 250 dollar 7850. I might as well get another 6870 and Crossfire it for the money, since it would dominate a single 7870 for performance.

[Deleted]

If the 7770 had a little more oomph, I'd probably buy two of them for Crossfire. They don't beat out my 6870 for raw performance, they are actually pretty far behind in that regard and I wish AMD had a step up in the budget range like a 7790 or a 7830 that filled that price gap between the 150 dollar 7770 and the 250 dollar 7850. I might as well get another 6870 and Crossfire it for the money, since it would dominate a single 7870 for performance.

AMD still relies on their previous generation GPUs afaik. The 7850 is not supposed to be the step-up from the 7770 I believe. The 6850 and 6870 (and to some extent the 6950) are still viable at that price range.

I also think that the 7850 will drop down to ~$200 as nVidias GTS 650 and GT 640 get released/more established.

It might also be due to Trinity. AMD is putting a lot of effort into their APUs to make it a viable solution even for gaming.

[Hulari]

I just saw this floating around on the internet. I've been waiting for the 660 to come out so that I can upgrade from my very loud 460. What do you guys think? I hope it's true because I really, really want to upgrade from this damned card now.

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/304...s-gtx-660.aspx

[Deleted]

The GTX 660 will be a OEM card afaik.

[Rennadrel]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/gr...-until-august/

Apparently the GTX 660 will come out after Nvidia has cleared out their overstock of 570's.

[inux94]

Hmm..

I'm giving it a month or two before it gets released, with their overstock, I'm excited to get some graphs, personally the most exciting thing when it comes to new hardware :P

[Xuvial]

Well if there is going to be some crazy price slash on 570's, this would be people's opportunity to grab 3-4 of them for folding rigs. They're CUDA/computing beasts.

[Trilicity]

these charts are incorrect show your source please

[Drunkenvalley]

these charts are incorrect show your source please

'These charts' is a bit ambiguous.

[inux94]

The 570 performs equal (or close to) to the 6970, or?

[Xuvial]

Depends on game, both have their ups and downs. But yes they were considered equal.

[inux94]

I see!

If there's an amazing deal that pops up for the 570 then I might pick it up, the only GPU-intensives game I'm going to play is Battlefield 3 & Metro, I'm fairly happy with high settings & no AA :P