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Old Feb 1, 2012, 07:05 PM   #65
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News on this has been rather dead... But here's a newer (rumor) article: http://news.techeye.net/chips/nvidia...#ixzz1l4sdeNee
I see your source and raise you two Charlie's. Corresponds to the article you've referenced but elaborates.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/02/01/p...lergk104-fast/

I particularly find this bit very, very worrying/interesting:

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All of the benchmark numbers shown by Nvidia, and later to SemiAccurate, were overwhelmingly positive. How overwhelmingly positive? Far faster than an AMD HD7970/Tahiti for a chip with far less die area and power use, and it blew an overclocked 580GTX out of the water by unbelievable margins.
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When Kepler is released, you can reasonably expect extremely peaky performance. For some games, specifically those running Nvidia middleware, it should fly. For the rest, performance is likely to fall off the proverbial cliff. Hard. So hard that it will likely be hard pressed to beat AMD’s mid-range card.
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