nVidia GTX 680 Announced

[Covar]

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/kepler-comes-of-age-nvidia-unveils-geforce-600-series-gpus/

Considering I'm running a GTX 460, this seems like a good time to upgrade.

 

[Frank]

Yep, I'm getting one of those. I am sold.

 

[Bowielee]

My GTX 560 ti is still working out very well for me. I probably won't be upgrading anytime in the near future. Though, when this card drops in price, it may become more attractive to me.

If anything, my CPU was my bottleneck until my recent upgrade.

 

[Shegokigo]

Pretty much the same here. Loving my video card, so my next upgrade is easily going to be a new MB, Processor and RAM.

 

[Frank]

Wow, the only game the 7970 beats the 680 on is Crysis Warhead and even in most of the 1080p benchmarks the 680 matches 6990 and the 590.

I may wait on seeing how badass the 690 is when it's eventually released.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/nvidia-geforce-gtx-580-review-round-up/

 

[PatrThom]

Plenty of reviews say this is their graphics/gaming card. NVIDIA may be hiding something else in the wings for the compute (i.e., Quadro) side (people point to the fact that there are unfilled spots on the card for a potential third power connector and associated phases), time will tell.

For right now, the 680 is 5-15% faster than the Radeon 7970 and draws less power BUT it has drastically less compute capability. i.e., it's great for gamers, but sucks rocks for bitcoin mining, folding@home, etc.

--Patrick