green power beast… more power draw than a 7970..further a 7970 can run at a much much greater clock speed at stock voltages.. oc results will be more apt
That particular review shows how well the 7970 is really… when oc’d the 680’s temps are really high. not only that the 7970 manages to beat it in several games.. the main thing to note here is that the 7970 can reach those clocks without a sweat!
TDP is good for stock.. oc it an you will see how the temps rise.. check the above revie
The chip is really good other than two issues - compute where its totally ripped apart by the 7970 and opengl where it seems to be a lot slower.
All nv geforce cards since the 285 have castrated opengl. With the radeons, it seems you can get very good opengl performance simply by softmodding to a fire gl.
Not bad. Tamed the thermals and TDP. I liked the stacked PEG connectors to save on length. Good refresh by Green. Performance is in the decent ball-park too.
My oh my… how the tables have turned. Radeons are computing better while GeForce is getting more power efficient. While these two are trading places and dancing all over the floor, my dilemma is stuck in the same place. Need to get some hands-on with Radeon 7000 series and some GF600 series cards and do some of my own tests, before I plonk down money in the wrong camp.
From insider sources, I hear the GK110 doesn’t have too many more shaders - it just has more fp64 compatible processing units which means it’ll perform much better in GPGPU applications. For gaming, the difference is gonna be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
