Geforce GTX680 shames AMD

As long as these two companies keep trying to better one another in a performance war, the price of their old (and still unbelievably powerful) cards keeps going down. Now if only there was a viable alternative to Telkom and DSTV. Competition favors the consumer, we need more of it.
 
Derrick Cramer you are a fanboy.
That was poor buddy..seriously.

The 680 is strong on single monitor setups on standard clocks. That's where it ends.

1st off, when the 7970 and the gtx680 are overclocked, there is a 6% difference between the 2 cards, AMD winning some Nvidia winning others. Then there is the fact that tri fire beats quad sli in many different scenarios, The nvidia's scale badly compared to the AMD's. Then there is the fact that Nvidia can not compete in GPU compute, where even a 7870 pawns the living crap out of it. Multi Monitor setups, they are pretty equal.

Def not a "smack down"

Maybe do proper research before writting fanboy articles like that.

Edit: Also mention the fact that there are very few 680's available and it'll stay like that for months to come, where as AMD have sold thousands of 7970's over the last 3 Months.
All of this adds up, Nvidia might have a fast card for single monitor set ups but its way behind in market share, and as it stands I doubt with the current stock levels of the 680 it'll be able to take back that market share.
 
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The Joker said:
Derrick Cramer you are a fanboy.
That was poor buddy..seriously.

The 680 is strong on single monitor setups on standard clocks. That's where it ends.

1st off, when the 7970 and the gtx680 are overclocked, there is a 6% difference between the 2 cards, AMD winning some Nvidia winning others. Then there is the fact that tri fire beats quad sli in many different scenarios, The nvidia's scale badly compared to the AMD's. Then there is the fact that Nvidia can not compete in GPU compute, where even a 7870 pawns the living crap out of it. Multi Monitor setups, they are pretty equal.

Def not a "smack down"

Maybe do proper research before writting fanboy articles like that.

Edit: Also mention the fact that there are very few 680's available and it'll stay like that for months to come, where as AMD have sold thousands of 7970's over the last 3 Months.
All of this adds up, Nvidia might have a fast card for single monitor set ups but its way behind in market share, and as it stands I doubt with the current stock levels of the 680 it'll be able to take back that market share.
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Valid points, but tell me did you take into account the GTX680 is still running on newly released drivers? Performance will increase as drivers improve, and this will be most apparent in multi card scaling.

Also you need to remember, gamers who will consider either a GTX680 or a HD7970 make up a very small portion of the market. The amount of gamers who will buy more than one of the cards and run Tri Fire or Quad SLI is even smaller. So I would put less weight on multi card setups than single card performance, because single card performance is more relevant.

As for GPU compute, it's far less relevant to gamers than actual game performance.

Nvidia produced a card that outperforms AMD's HD7970 in the majority of scenarios, and managed to undercut them on price. That sounds like a kick in the teeth to me.

Also initial stock levels are almost irrelevant when we're comparing the performance or two different cards.

I don't see why less important(because they are less relevant to the majority) issues such as multi-GPU scaling and GPU compute are more important than performance and price.

I think you need to go read the quotes again, particularly the first one:

"NVIDIA’s newest flagship card is superior to the HD 7970 in almost every way. Whether it is performance, power consumption, noise, features, price or launch day availability, it currently owns the road and won’t be looking over its shoulder for some time to come."

Those aren't my words, those are the words from some of the most respected reviewers in the industry. :)
 
Derrick said:
Valid points, but tell me did you take into account the GTX680 is still running on newly released drivers? Performance will increase as drivers improve, and this will be most apparent in multi card scaling.

Also you need to remember, gamers who will consider either a GTX680 or a HD7970 make up a very small portion of the market. The amount of gamers who will buy more than one of the cards and run Tri Fire or Quad SLI is even smaller. So I would put less weight on multi card setups than single card performance, because single card performance is more relevant.

As for GPU compute, it's far less relevant to gamers than actual game performance.

Nvidia produced a card that outperforms AMD's HD7970 in the majority of scenarios, and managed to undercut them on price. That sounds like a kick in the teeth to me.

Also initial stock levels are almost irrelevant when we're comparing the performance or two different cards.

I don't see why less important(because they are less relevant to the majority) issues such as multi-GPU scaling and GPU compute are more important than performance and price.

I think you need to go read the quotes again, particularly the first one:

"NVIDIA’s newest flagship card is superior to the HD 7970 in almost every way. Whether it is performance, power consumption, noise, features, price or launch day availability, it currently owns the road and won’t be looking over its shoulder for some time to come."

Those aren't my words, those are the words from some of the most respected reviewers in the industry. :)
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Nice try.
Try buying one.

AMD will likely lower the prices of their cards, now we all like fanboy flame posts (not yours, this isn't personal) but thats actually what all of us really want.

Shame AMD's cards? Hardly, shame on nVidia for taking longer to release their awesome cards.

Pricing
Nividia : R6287.56 http://www.prophecy.co.za/bnvidiab-bnvidia-seriesb-c-37_38_2493.html
AMD : R6224.86 http://www.prophecy.co.za/asus-radeon-hd7950-dc2t-gddr5-384bit-pcie-p-112981.html

Nice pricing SA.
 
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