Nvidia GTX 670 Launches , Kepler for $399

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Nvidia GTX 670 Launches , Kepler for $399

Nvidia has finally launched GTX 670 , the third GPU based on Kepler architecture at $399 price point . The GTX 670 uses 28nm process just like its big brother GTX 680 and the dual-GPU GTX 690 ) , offering high end performance at more affordable price point .

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The card delivers higher performance while consuming upto 18 percent lesser power . NVIDIA says the GeForce GTX 670 “ties the competition’s much higher-priced flagship product on 25 of the world’s most popular games and benchmarks ".

The specifications of the card are as follows :-
  • Cores - 1344
  • Texture Units - 112
  • ROPs - 32
  • Core Clock - 915
  • Boost Core Clock - 980
  • RAM - 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
  • Memory Clock - 1502MHz
  • Display Connectors - 2 x Dual Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2
  • Power Connectors - 2 x 6 pin PCI-e
  • TDP - 170W

The GPU supports NVIDIA Surround, 3D Vision Surround and PhysX rendering, with support for up to 2560 x 1600 resolution on a single monitor. There’s also NVIDIA’s GPU Boost for dynamically adjusting – and overclocking, if appropriate – clock speeds to maximize performance. The company’s temporal antialiasing (TXAA) tech is also implemented, so as to help cut out “jaggies†in rendering.

The GPU will be available from all major suppliers like ASUS , MSI , Zotac etc in India at price around Rs 27,999 inclusive of taxes .

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Looks like AMD started this price hike business and now we as customers are stuck with damn high prices for mid range cards...

Anyway I hope this drives some sense into AMD as well.

Great card and if I was looking to upgrade this would be it.
 
Great card and if I was looking to upgrade this would be it.
I also wanna to upgrade my graphic card with this awesome 670GTX. But i recently bought a new graphic card for my pc EVGA 550Ti GTX 1Gb, Because i know that this awesome card is not working on my rig with the PSU of 450.
 
Looks like AMD started this price hike business and now we as customers are stuck with damn high prices for mid range cards.

Halt!! Warum sind Sie ziehen AMD in das?

If that sounded German enough please listen, Sire --
  • AMD 7*** series cards were more expensive on release because, they completely decimated the earlier GTX 5** series.
  • They were released ~2 months before the earliest Kepler based competition.
  • Pioneered a number of industry firsts --

  1. first 28nm fabrication based graphics card.
  2. First ATi / AMD card whose architecture was oriented keeping GPGPU Compute in mind.
  3. Insane over-clocking potential on release, universally the HD 79** and HD 7870 have been acclaimed for massive gains with minimal over-volting. In fact if you are willing to over-volt the performance scales better.

  • They have since slashed prices appropriately [this is the case in Western Europe and the US]
  • In India prices haven't gone down thanks to --

  1. middlemen [distributors] conniving to get 'profits'.
  2. Value of Indian rupee has depreciated vis-a-vis US$.
Please do not blame any company solely like this. Cheerio!!

 
Ok since you seem to know so much about how AMD works, lets go back a couple of generations.

The highest single GPU card in the 5xxx series was the 5870...right? Costed around 18-20k when it was released..

Then AMD decided to change the naming criteria and the highest card in the 6xxx lineup was the 6970. Again was priced between 19-22k at the time of release..and BTW, they completely overran the market as the competition was GTX 4XX, which was by all accounts not doing to well...

Then came the 7xxx series and suddenly AMD decides that the 79xx series is way high end and lets charge a bomb, since we have no competition...sounds like a plan right, so we as customers got the new high end at around 35-39k, which is almost twice the price of the older high end cards..and overclocking had probably very little to do with pricing...

Then Nvidia decides that well, this pricing suits as fine as well...BUT, or new high end AKA GF110, can really beat the crap out of AMD 7970/7950/7990, so lets release mid end cards with the same nomenclature as the previous high end cards and lets price them similar or slightly lower than the 79xx series and then lets have some fun.

So here we are now, with AMD pushing in some price cuts in the high end and Nvidia again rocking their boat with the 670, which looks like a mid end card from each and every angle. It performs so well, that it competes with the high end of AMD and so again Nvvidia looks at a much higher price than they imagined they could have sold it for.

So who's fault is it?

AMD for staring to double the price of their high end cards, or Nvidia who did not have a competitor to the 79xx series at launch. It really does not matter to me as I dont own shares of any of the companies, but the bottom line is the new Rs. 20k card is now the new Rs. 35k card and that hurts us the most.

And in any case, if looking back at the 6xxx series, that too could have been priced higher as the GTX 4xx series was a massive failure in its first iteration. Anyway, I am sure you have your own thoughts on this, but basically its only the customer who is getting screwed over.
 
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