Another 5970 owner here... between the numerous crossfire issues and AMD's crappy drivers from the last year, I'll likely pick up Nvidia's new card even if it's not a significant increase over the 7970.
Tanks, im still missing his point though.
Overvolts have put it over the 1.3ghz range and 6ghz in memory OC's.It will be interesting to see. I don't think that kepler is going to blow AMD out of the water, perhaps just the current 7970. Which from what many are reporting is clocked very low.
Its clear by these benchmarks Hardocp did that AMD has another 30% performance on the table vs the stock clocks of the radeon hd 7970. This is on the stock cooling btw. I'm pretty sure that come Summer AMD will be able to release a sku based on the same chip in the 7970 and easily hit those performance numbers while keeping the power draw in check.
Now kepler may still be more powerful. But I doubt its going to completely blow away AMD's offerings as it apears the 7970 was never going to stay their high end video card
Personally I think AMD will tide it over with the 7990 until their next refresh. I dont think they will clock a Tahiti sku above 1.1GHz.It will be interesting to see. I don't think that kepler is going to blow AMD out of the water, perhaps just the current 7970. Which from what many are reporting is clocked very low.
Its clear by these benchmarks Hardocp did that AMD has another 30% performance on the table vs the stock clocks of the radeon hd 7970. This is on the stock cooling btw. I'm pretty sure that come Summer AMD will be able to release a sku based on the same chip in the 7970 and easily hit those performance numbers while keeping the power draw in check.
Now kepler may still be more powerful. But I doubt its going to completely blow away AMD's offerings as it apears the 7970 was never going to stay their high end video card
The problem is that AMD was first to the market with DX11 by 6 months, had cheaper cards out (top to bottom) and still were not able to make that great of a breakthrough. They also had a die-size advantage.
GK104 is the performance part, not the high end. If Charlie is correct then its the latter.
Considering the surprises that were GF114 and GF110, not really.
What sort of issues did you run into? I've used a 5870 for two years now and it has been a very reliable, fast card. There have been issues now and then with some new releases (such as Rage), but in general, it's not an issue.
There is a lot of FUD floating around which is creating the confusion. As I understand it, GK104 will be the first Kepler to launch, it might not end up as 660Ti or 760Ti but rather GTX680 or GTX780. Nvidia might also be referring to it as "GK110" based on its performance.
GTX560ti vs GTX580, the GTX580 came out first?
Dennis wins and to add to his point
And it will outperforms your 6950.
GK104 is GK104, GK110 is GK110. Whatever GeForce names they'll all end up having -- I'm not sure that even NVIDIA knows at the moment. Does it matter?
That's GK110. It comes later than GK104 but not late in the year.
Hey, at least they start at zero!
A lot of times the high end market isn't about getting the job done. It's about having the fastest card.
Too bad that PS4 will be only based on Kepler and not Maxwell
Sony doesn't have a very good track record this gen when it comes to BC.Anything could happen but I don't think it will be the case.
It doesn't make any sense to abandon nVidia, they can offer great performance, they bring excellent tools and support, they can easily implement backwards compatibility with the RSX which is vital (they're not going to throw away all the PS3 contents they have built on the PSN by making a next gen system not compatible with PS3).
Personally at this point I'm expecting PS4 to be a 28nm SOC with a PowerPC/Cell derivative CPU and a Kepler GPU + 4GB total memory.
We'll see though
They almost make CPU, and console threads look reasonable.
Anything could happen but I don't think it will be the case.
It doesn't make any sense to abandon nVidia, they can offer great performance, they bring excellent tools and support, they can easily implement backwards compatibility with the RSX which is vital (they're not going to throw away all the PS3 contents they have built on the PSN by making a next gen system not compatible with PS3).
Personally at this point I'm expecting PS4 to be a 28nm SOC with a PowerPC/Cell derivative CPU and a Kepler GPU + 4GB total memory.
We'll see though
I know GK110 was supposed to be the top dog but there is also a GK112.
GAF is generally pro-Nvidia, sharks have come out!
Because what have we heard about AMD/ATI?
They're all rumors, at some point there were articles claiming that Intel got the deal for their Larrabee chip LOL
And the bullshit about Sony delaying PSVita beacuse nVidia was having problems with their Tegra chip?
Most of these stories are just made up to get hits.
Also that PR from Sony was plain bullshit, Sony scrapped their internal GPU (made with Toshiba) in 2004. Nvidia had the PS3 contract in 2004 and they made an optimized version of their GF7 GPU in just a year and half. NVidia was working on their GF7 generation since 2002, but definetly not with Sony
