Q3?! That's an awful ways away... AMD will be lining its pockets in the meantime and likely working to have a counter ready for NV's release date.

That article also mentions 300W (!) power consumption, I know, I know, just rumours- but if true that sounds like another hot and noisy NV high-end card. We shall see.

Isn't AMD going the one new GPU, one respin route? I'd expect there to be a 7975 and a 7955 in July, and the 8xxx cards in or around December.

8000 will be "improved" GCN

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-Kepler-GPU-GeForce-600-Series,14642.html#xtor=RSS-998


even the 690 will only have 3.5 GB of Ram. (1.75GBx2).


i bet they took their readings with PhysX set to ON.

Your guess seems very plausible, to me. Later seems more likely than sooner, to me.

Three years back (or so), AMD indicated they wanted to come out with a substantially new card every 12 months -- very importantly, without slips. In between, it was supposed to be minor tweaks, if anything. Now, there is new management. So, they may not be on that update path any longer. Nonetheless, sales wise, Fall/Winter would be a good time for an HD8xxx.

Post-recession I don't know that the market really would take that same breakneck pace. I always thought 18 months for a major update would be fine. The 6 months between major and minor update cycle was just too fast. Besides, as a result of the console mentality meaning games aren't really pushing like they used to, the previous generation winds up being totally capable for a long time.

Unless you're pushing multiple monitors (which I find impractical for space reasons) at very high resolutions, there's nothing a card over a year old at 1920x1080 can't manage today.



The Jedi Master

New rumoured specs:

nVidia GK104

Name (high end): GeForce GTX 680 (not certain yet)
28nm manufacturing process at TSMC, die-size ca. 340mm² (inofficial estimate)
4 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)
4 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) aka Shader-Cluster pro GPC, so in all 16 Shader-Cluster for the GK104-Chip
96 Stream Processors (SP) aka Shader units per Shader-Cluster, so in all 1536 Shader units for the GK104-Chip
8 Texture units (TMU) aka Texture units per Shader-Cluster, so in all 128 Texture units for the GK104-Chip
32 Raster Operation Units (ROPs)
256 Bit DDR memory interface (up to GDDR5)
Chip frequency (high end): 950 MHz
No more Hotclocks, no extra frequency of the shader unit (anymore)
SinglePrecision performance: 2,9 TFlops, DoublePrecision with 1:6 = DP-processing power 486 GFlops, Texture performance 121 GTex/sec
Memory frequency (high end): 2500 MHz, memory bandwidth about 160 GB/sec
2048 MB GDDR5 memory placement



Google translated from German

Original article @ 3DCenter.org

So this rumor has a far faster GPU clock and a slower memory clock. Interesting.

However, I'm not interested in any card over $350, so I'll see what's in that price range come the end of this year/beginning of next when my card is 18-24 months old.



The Jedi Master

those numbers dont add up, something fishy...

Still the rumors have not improved on the 2GB VRAM and I'm guessing that still means it won't have 3 monitor support otherwise it would be higher VRAM amount, lame... I just hope there is some unmentioned higher end (685?) card with 3+GB VRAM and 3 ports (including DP).

For now I got tired of waiting for Kepler and picked up a 560Ti/448 for <$250, these are close to 570 performance but very overclockable (some of the same model I bought to 570/580 speeds ) and I needed the upgrade from my 5870's for FSX and COD and rF2 and am tired of waiting.

The 560Ti/448 came in last night and from initial benchmarking it is a big upgrade to my 5870 for FSX and I have not even tried overclocking it yet.

Should tide me over until at least late this year once Kepler and ATI's mid generation answer is out, though I gave up 3 monitor support for now unless I am so happy with it that I choose to pick up another for SLI.

Still hoping Kepler will have some evolutionary card with triple monitor support and ATI releases a serious overclock response later this year, if so I can sell the 560ti/448 and pick one up at that time, for now I am *very* happy with this bang/buck upgrade of it's little brother that came out in Nov 2011.