
Although we like to start our benchmark suite with Futuremark’s synthetic metric, we know that it doesn’t always reflect the ebb and flow of real-world games, which are often affected by developer relationships and extra optimizations in one direction or the other.
From that perspective, the GeForce GTX 680 falls right under both dual-GPU cards, which we’re really only including for the purpose of exhibition at this point, since neither is available any more.
AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 gives up its short-lived lead, though based on its advantage over the GeForce GTX 580, we can tell it’s still a very fast piece of hardware.




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Summary
- GeForce GTX 680: The Card And Cooling
- GK104: The Chip And Architecture
- GPU Boost: Graphics Afterburners
- Overclocking: I Want More Than GPU Boost
- PCI Express 3.0 And Adaptive V-Sync
- Hardware Setup And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark 11 (DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3 (DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: Crysis 2 (DX 9/DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (DX 9)
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 3 (DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm (DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: Metro 2033 (DX 11)
- Benchmark Results: Sandra 2012
- Benchmark Results: Compute Performance In LuxMark 2.0
- Benchmark Results: NVEnc And MediaEspresso 6.5
- Temperature And Noise
- Power Consumption
- Performance Per Watt: The Index
- GeForce GTX 680: The Hunter Scores A Kill
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Now we just need prices to start dropping, although significant drops will probably not come until the GK110 is released
Now we just need prices to start dropping, although significant drops will probably not come until the GK110 is released
Good going Nvidia...
Sigh...
WoW has had DX11 for quite a long time now. Also, go play in a 25 man raid with every detail setting on ultra with 8xAA and 16x AAF and tell me WoW is not taxing on a PC.
...oh, wait.
For everyone suggesting that nVidia will release another true "flagship" beyond the 680, I think you are spot on, IF AMD gives them a reason to. There's no reason to push it at the moment as they already hold the crown. If, on the other hand, AMD goes out and makes a 7980, or 79070 SE card with higher clocks (more like what the 7970 can achieve when properly overclocked), I definitely see nVidia stepping their game up a bit.
Either way, it's awesome to see both AMD and now nVidia taking power consumption into consideration. I'm tired of my computer room feeling like a toaster after an all nighter.
He means waiting for the GK110, that will be a more of a compute card while this GK104 is more equiped towards gaming.