Introducing The GeForce GTX 680

[Jack]

Graphics chip and PC and server processor wannabe Nvidia is lifting the skirt a bit on its next-generation "Kepler" graphics processing units today as it starts talking about the feeds and speeds of its new GeForce graphics cards for desktop and notebook PCs.

As Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang explained when he outed the roadmap for the Kepler GPUs (originally slated for late 2011) and the "Maxwell" follow-ons due in 2013, Nvidia is focused like a laser on performance per watt, not just performance, for its GPU chips. This is because heat, more than any other factor, is the gating issue deciding where GPUs can be adopted and where they cannot.

The promise that Huang made back in September 2010 was that by shifting to a new design and moving to a 28 nanometer wafer-baking process at foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, Nvidia could deliver somewhere on the order of three to four times the double-precision floating point operations per watt of the current "Fermi" GPUs, which are used in GeForce graphics cards for PCs, Quadro GPUs for workstations, and Tesla server coprocessors alike. And the shift to Maxwell in 2013 is supposed to deliver 16 times more double-precision flops per watt as the Fermis.

Read more : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/nvidia_kepler_gpu_preview/

 

[McLovin]

Seems very good, but I bet it's VERY expensive

Will have to wait till it comes down alot before I go out and buy it.

 

[Jack]

Seems very good, but I bet it's VERY expensive

Well, if you look at the performance then the $499 (before taxes) it's not really huge , I know people who spent that kind of money on a monitor so....

 

[MrXidus]

Seems like every website lists a difference price. Just 2 results.

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680 video leaks, Australian pricing revealed
http://www.cnet.com.au/nvidias-geforce-gtx-680-video-leaks-australian-pricing-revealed-339334363.htm

European Price of GeForce GTX 680 Will Make You Cry
http://news.softpedia.com/news/European-Price-of-the-GeForce-GTX-680-Will-Make-You-Cry-260363.shtml

I'd rather wait till the dust settles.

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

What is this price?! If I got the money to buy this one, I will buy a Tablet PC instead, since I am not a gamer...

 

[Ink]

They set a fixed number, not price.

 

[McLovin]

What is this price?! If I got the money to buy this one, I will buy a Tablet PC instead, since I am not a gamer...

Better off at the moment to buy a tablet

 

[jamescv7]

All I can say its really awesome, pro gamers would really take that advantage.