Tuesday, March 6th 2012
GK104 (GTX 680) Has 17% Higher Compute Power Than Tahiti (HD7970): Report
A report by 3DCenter.org, which takes into account the specifications of NVIDIA's GK104 GPU, based on clock-speed and specs. leak estimated its shader compute power to be 17% higher than that of AMD's Tahiti in its Radeon HD 7970 avatar (4.46 TFLOPs single-precision floating point). Based on the said specifications, the report also hypothesized things such as memory bandwidth, ROP performance, and texture performance; and compared it to those of the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950.
Source:
3DCenter.org
48 Comments on GK104 (GTX 680) Has 17% Higher Compute Power Than Tahiti (HD7970): Report
It would be nice for multimonitor gaming.
I'd like to purchase an NV gpu, but only if power consumption is not too high.
Performance is performance, whether you go NV or AMD, games play well enough; the consoles haven't made their next surge.
What's important is power consumption and feature sets; like having multi-monitor as an option, whichever card you choose. Options are good. Limitations are bad, unless you're on a very restrictive budget.
I really hope that nVidia learned from their mistakes in the past, there is a lot of hopes and hype for Kepler and I can only imagine how disappointed people will be if it doesn't perform, but keep in mind, with the failure of Bulldozer AMD has clearly went full force forward with their GPUs.
The waiting game isn't good for business (for nVidia, that is anyways).
www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2562079&postcount=10
Nvidia might try to push it's CUDA computing further, but not in expense of 3D performance. I don't see Geforce branded cards being sold for Folding much.
Another issue with all these speculations/leaks matter, is the naming schemes. Assuming the 680 succeeds the 580, I don't see why it'd be powered by the GK104 with only a 256bit wide memory bus. Unless there's been some announcements that I missed.
As for the GK110 which should have been the real successor of the 580, there's no need for it now in this GPU market. The Teslas and the Quadros can wait a little longer.
All of these gk104 thread's make me :roll: They are FUDtastic! :D Maybe in 2 or 3 week's there will actually be a thread about this card :o
In the meantime, another post! YAY! :rolleyes:
In the end, I joined my buddies with the 9700Pro, after being an NV loyalist ever since the GF2 series. I was happy for another year or two on, before NV finally got their overall package right, with the FX 6x00 series (still debatable then). Eventually, ATI was caught doing some of the same 'dynamic optimization' of their own, leveling the playing field with future hardware, and NV even released some actual class-leading product again. So I'm not saying don't buy nVidia. What I AM saying is if you need good performance now, buy the best you can afford from what is CURRENTLY available. If you hold your breath, you may pass out before the thing you think you're waiting for actually arrives. Specs are just vapor until the hardware's available for you to buy. Don't get caught by the hype. ;)
(and right now, regardless of rumors, AMD / ATI rules the roost again)
GTX580 = 49 GTexel/s
HD6970 = 84 GT/s
HD7970 = 118 GT/s
So you can assume that both compute and texturing power are way above GTX580 (and by extension Tahiti to a lesser extent).
Only ROP power would be lower. But I don't really believe the specs in which the 3dcenter calculations are based on, because I don't think that Nvidia would increase compute and texturing power so much, and put a ROP power that is actually smaller than on a GTX560. Unless it has 64 or 48 (decoupled) ROPs, in wich case it would be higher than HD7970.
And to me, 700 Mhz is just not very believable for a 320mm^2 chip on 28 nm. Going backwards by so much? Naaaah. Smoke screen.
I have a hard time believing Nvidia won’t set an MSRP for a card that could spar with a 7970 for any less than $480. Even with a more cost effective die and 256-Bit vs. 348-Bit, I just don’t envisaging Nvidia under cutting price more than say 12% at the start (not part of their DNA).
I won’t go as far as saying, AMD artificially jacked-up their price, but seized ~10% premium because at the beginning of January they probably didn’t figure Nvidia would play it this way, it is uncharacteristic of them. AMD probably erred to normal track and figure if the GK104 if used to combat the 7970 they still have wiggle room to find traction in the appropriate $/performance to new competition. At least this isn’t a GTX 260/4870 type of "uh-Oh" moment… AMD has probably had 4-5 weeks to deliberate how this might develop, and probably made contingencies. So now if we find rebates flowing next week(s) that may be a “tale-tell” of what’s coming.
Finally, who know if Charlie has this right... but what if something close to this has occurred, could it have an effect to this short term? Pent-up demand and low stock if close to a 7970, there's still guy's that would dole-out top dollar. :ohwell:
semiaccurate.com/2012/03/07/tsmc-suddenly-halts-28nm-production/
Get the DCUII GTX 670, that is a good GPU...