nVidia 670 benchmarks leaked

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lolz faster than 7970? And right there with 680? WTF would anyone buy GTX 680?
 
Good looking benchmarks. Wonder what the price will be, considering you can't even find a 680 anymore. Maybe $419.99?
 
I wonder how much 7950 will have to drop to now. $300? Will the 7870 cost more since they never lowered it after lowering 7950? Either-way headache for AMD. Can't wait till good ole fashioned price war starts am I can make top cards again at $250 like it should be.
 
Phishy714 said:
That's what they said about a 7950..

yet the 7970 still sells well.
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To people reading reviews 7950 is quite a bit slower - like 15-20%. This 670 is literally neck and neck with 680.
 
High factory OC gtx670. Obviously it will be near gtx680 speeds. No surprises there.

It's a gigabyte windforce model, leak on retail website. Prolly very high clockspeeds matching gtx680. While its good, a gtx680 can still OC further.

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being as I never buy the very top end I will be waiting for this to see what it goes for in the wild. Also if it is really super short I am not sure my epeen could take that..
 
tweaktown still angry @ nvidia ? lol so professional

inb4 the u.s. goverment takes it down for breach of dmca or acta or whatever flys for taking down sites nowa days!!!
 
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hmm i dont know but if this is true I will be returning my 7950 when it arrives from Amazon.
 
The 670 has equal or even better performance than the 7970 and will still be cheaper (most likely). I wonder if the 7970 will drop again in price!
 
shit , my galaxy 680 GTX GC I ordered from amazon is at shipping soon stage.
I should have wait for this 670 GTX
 
I call this benchmark bull crap. If I remember correctly, reviews showed the 7970 being stronger in metro 2033 than a 680 and somehow a 670 almost matches it and beats it at some resolutions? I don't believe these. Nvidia knows better than to put it so close in performance to a 680.

A 7970 is faster than a msi 680 twin frozr oc card in metro 2033. Please tell me how a 670 matches that lol.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gtx-680-twinfrozr-iii-oc-review/18
 
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i still think what kills the 79xx series is it's conservative clock rate.

anyway, i think the success of the card will be based on availability since the 680 availability is still rather... u know... awful...
 
Nirad9er said:
I call this benchmark bull crap. If I remember correctly, reviews showed the 7970 being stronger in metro 2033 than a 680 and somehow a 670 almost matches it and beats it at some resolutions? I don't believe these. Nvidia knows better than to put it so close in performance to a 680.

A 7970 is faster than a msi 680 twin frozr oc card in metro 2033. Please tell me how a 670 matches that lol.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gtx-680-twinfrozr-iii-oc-review/18
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Thats goofy, you picked one single benchmark. REALLY?? And on a game that isn't as optimized as lets say BF3 which uses every aspect of CPU and Card that it can.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gtx-680-twinfrozr-iii-oc-review/21

Modern games, yes your little overpriced 7970 get thoroughly beaten. And if you read any reviews at [H] Kyle said gameplay felt smoother even if the 7970 was faster. (possible stuttering on 7970?)

We will see soon enough...
 
I think it would be difficult to call these benchmarks definitive or BS.

Look again at the fleet of games they test: They're mostly older games. The ranking of the cards' positions rarely changes (e.g.: The few games that don't really like CF and the Radeon HD 6990 fails to work properly). All cards pull in playable frame rates. I'd take a pinch of salt along with these results.

We also don't know if TweakTown - who admits they don't talk to Nvidia and aren't under NDA - has a reference card or an overclocked partner-made card. I'd pour out a few more grains of salt just for that alone.

The only consistently reoccurring data point is the GTX 670 beats the GTX 580 and the Radeon HD 7950 in apples-to-apples testing. We can probably safely assume this will continue to be true.

How close it performs to GTX 680 levels probably won't be determined until [H] properly tightens the screws on these cards while looking for the best-playable settings. All we know now is it'll be a nice alternative in the mid-upper range.

Personally, I'm not interested in anything that won't land in the neighborhood of $250. I'm an enthusiast, but I'm an enthusiast with bills that need to get paid.
 
ZoNe said:
lolz faster than 7970? And right there with 680? WTF would anyone buy GTX 680?
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The two are using different drivers so its hard to call the two directly comparable but even still the difference probably is very small. One thing that I'm not liking is the unsinked memory on the back of the card. I know that GTX680 benefits from memory overclocks quite a bit. My card has a ton of headroom too.

SnowBeast said:
Thats goofy, you picked one single benchmark. REALLY?? And on a game that isn't as optimized as lets say BF3 which uses every aspect of CPU and Card that it can.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gtx-680-twinfrozr-iii-oc-review/21

Modern games, yes your little overpriced 7970 get thoroughly beaten. And if you read any reviews at [H] Kyle said gameplay felt smoother even if the 7970 was faster. (possible stuttering on 7970?)

We will see soon enough...
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Performance in Metro 2033 isn't very good on GTX680. Thats what I've seen first hand as well. I can't play it in 3d vision. Something like a GTX560 ti sli setup would be playable in 3d.

He raises a good point. Why is GTX680 suddenly performing so close to a 7970 in metro? I haven't seen that in one other benchmark. I know that my card doesn't compare to 7970 numbers in the Metro 2033 benchmark.
 
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yojimbo said:
How close it performs to GTX 680 levels probably won't be determined until [H] properly tightens the screws on these cards while looking for the best-playable settings. All we know now is it'll be a nice alternative in the mid-upper range.
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The did have no problem comparing GTX690 to GTX680 sli using different drivers. I'm hoping that they don't do the same with GTX670. I would like to see a real apples to apples comparison.
 
BababooeyHTJ said:
He raises a good point. Why is GTX680 suddenly performing so close to a 7970 in metro? I haven't seen that in one other benchmark. I know that my card doesn't compare to 7970 numbers in the Metro 2033 benchmark.
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Perhaps TweakTown benchmarked the nvidia cards using a new driver that came with the GTX670 card? Maybe that's one of the performance improvements of the new driver for all 600-series cards: better Metro 2033 performance?

One thing's for sure. May will be the month where prices fall fairly dramatically on all AMD cards, just as availability finally improves with the 28nm yields from TSM for both AMD and nvidia. Perhaps I'll finally be able to upgrade my graphics subsystem for a sane amount of money? That would be nice.

By the way, I'm not seeing any charts for this review. I guess their server is overloaded.
 
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To add fuel to the fire, here's an interesting bit from BSN.

If even remotely true, this gives the impression that Nvidia is going the 'proof of concept' route with Kepler. The GTX 680 proved a high-end single GPU doesn't require a dedicated nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The GTX 690 - though financially out of reach for most - proves that a dual GPU card can actually work if designed and implemented properly *and* doesn't require a small nuclear power plant for electricity.

Perhaps GTX 670 proves 'the board doesn't have to be huge to get huge performance - look, it nearly matches a GTX 680!'

Again, if true, I'll probably nod while saying, "Not bad, Nvidia. Now, where's your midrange GPU's I can afford?"
 
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yojimbo said:
I think it would be difficult to call these benchmarks definitive or BS.

Look again at the fleet of games they test: They're mostly older games. The ranking of the cards' positions rarely changes (e.g.: The few games that don't really like CF and the Radeon HD 6990 fails to work properly). All cards pull in playable frame rates. I'd take a pinch of salt along with these results.

We also don't know if TweakTown - who admits they don't talk to Nvidia and aren't under NDA - has a reference card or an overclocked partner-made card. I'd pour out a few more grains of salt just for that alone.

The only consistently reoccurring data point is the GTX 670 beats the GTX 580 and the Radeon HD 7950 in apples-to-apples testing. We can probably safely assume this will continue to be true.

How close it performs to GTX 680 levels probably won't be determined until [H] properly tightens the screws on these cards while looking for the best-playable settings. All we know now is it'll be a nice alternative in the mid-upper range.

Personally, I'm not interested in anything that won't land in the neighborhood of $250. I'm an enthusiast, but I'm an enthusiast with bills that need to get paid.
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tweaktown is located in Taiwan, so its not really all that hard for them to get these cards. but even so i would never trust their reviews to begin with.
 
anubis44 said:
Perhaps TweakTown benchmarked the nvidia cards using a new driver that came with the GTX670 card? Maybe that's one of the performance improvements of the new driver for all 600-series cards: better Metro 2033 performance?
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Yeah, but GTX680 is using an older driver and is showing performance almost on par with a 7970 which it shouldn't.

One thing's for sure. May will be the month where prices fall fairly dramatically on all AMD cards, just as availability finally improves with the 28nm yields from TSM for both AMD and nvidia. Perhaps I'll finally be able to upgrade my graphics subsystem for a sane amount of money? That would be nice.

By the way, I'm not seeing any charts for this review. I guess their server is overloaded.
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Yeah, I'm interested to see what will happen as yields improve. Hopefully we see some more competition with pricing.
 
This looks very promising. Nvidia has done a splendid job on efficiency this generation. I may get my first Nvidia card since 8800 GT.
 
This is why I just sold my GTX 580. Prices will fall futher in another week on the older stuff.
 
PRIME1 said:
People thought I was joking when I said the 7970 should be $300.
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There's no way a 7970 should be 300 dollars while a GTX 680 is 500 bucks. AMD needs to refresh the clocks on the 7970 (and rumors point this to be happening) and it will be very competetive once again.

I honestly wish the Sapphire 7970 OC I paid 431.99 for hadn't exibited so many cap/coil whine noises as sliding Overdrive to 1100mhz and increasing Powertune to +20% is brain-dead easy.

The 2gb RAM on my current GTX 680 makes me nervous about playing at 2560 x 1600 in the future.
 
Can't see images on the site. Anyone else have this problem?

Also in Metro 2033 the 670 only beat the 7970 at 1680x1050. Lol @ testing at 1680x1050.
 
maboblivion said:
tweaktown still angry @ nvidia ? lol so professional
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Unprofessional is also the way NVIDIA treated TweakTown. When NVIDIA decided to stop sending them review units, they should have notified TweakTown. Instead, the wuss in charge of distributing review units at NVIDIA gave them the cold shoulder. Not only did NVIDIA fail to notify TweakTown of their removal from the review program, they were too cowardly to respond to TweakTown's request for an explanation. That is disrespectful, negligent, and entirely unprofessional. The NVIDIA employee responsible deserves to be berated.

Anyhow, that was a crap review. :D I can't wait for detailed benches at 2560x1600.

jolli said:
The 2gb RAM on my current GTX 680 makes me nervous about playing at 2560 x 1600 in the future.
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I was worried about that, too. But after the [H] review of 1600P and 2D Surround on the GTX 690 (2GB per GPU), it sounds like 2GB will be sufficient for a long while.
 
If Tweaktown broke an NDA it should be pretty obvious to them why they're blacklisted. They shouldn't need nVidia to hold their hand and explain it to them ;). Definitely waiting for a confirmation on price and performance from a legit website that provides enough information to re-test and verify review results (HardOCP)...a buddy of mine might go for this if it hits near the GTX 680's performance levels yet costs $100 less.
 
Haiku214 said:
The 670 has equal or even better performance than the 7970 and will still be cheaper (most likely). I wonder if the 7970 will drop again in price!
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Knowing AMD, they'll do just enough to meet or barely beat nVidia on price/performance.
 
IRSmurf said:
Anyhow, that was a crap review. :D I can't wait for detailed benches at 2560x1600.
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I'm wanting to see the benches on the GTX670 at 5760x1080. Time and again, the GTX680 cards kick ass at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080, but by the time they hit 2560x1600, the 7970 (if overclocked) has blown past them. By multi-monitor resolutions, the 7970 is dominating them.

IRSmurf said:
I was worried about that, too. But after the [H] review of 1600P and 2D Surround on the GTX 690 (2GB per GPU), it sounds like 2GB will be sufficient for a long while.
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Not for multi-monitor resolutions. [H] showed the 2Gb of ram was crippling the GTX680 in 5760x1080 resolution when the aliasing was turned up.
 
night_2004 said:
If Tweaktown broke an NDA it should be pretty obvious to them why they're blacklisted. They shouldn't need nVidia to hold their hand and explain it to them ;).
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I haven't read anywhere that they broke an NDA. Where did you read that? I thought they were just being treated like sh!t by nvidia, which seems pretty much par for the course for them.
 
BababooeyHTJ said:
The two are using different drivers so its hard to call the two directly comparable but even still the difference probably is very small. One thing that I'm not liking is the unsinked memory on the back of the card. I know that GTX680 benefits from memory overclocks quite a bit. My card has a ton of headroom too.



Performance in Metro 2033 isn't very good on GTX680. Thats what I've seen first hand as well. I can't play it in 3d vision. Something like a GTX560 ti sli setup would be playable in 3d.

He raises a good point. Why is GTX680 suddenly performing so close to a 7970 in metro? I haven't seen that in one other benchmark. I know that my card doesn't compare to 7970 numbers in the Metro 2033 benchmark.
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First off, i've said elsewhere that the 670 looks impressive and I look forward to the H review. However, some of the numbers are definitely weird. I can state for an absolute fact that 7970CF oc'ed rapes 680 sli in metro 2033, because I have purchased both setups, so its questionable that his tests show 680 with a lead, I just don't understand that. Secondly, he appears to be using release drivers and regurgitates his benchmark results from the 7970 release numbers. I'll have to check again when the pictures are back up, but they've done shoddy stuff like that before.

But all in all, the card shows a ton of promise. I highly doubt it beats the 7970, the numbers in that review are just fishy like mentioned above, but hopefully this can lower 79xx prices even further. So fans of both sides will have lots to be happy about.
 
anubis44 said:
I'm wanting to see the benches on the GTX670 at 5760x1080. Time and again, the GTX680 cards kick ass at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080, but by the time they hit 2560x1600, the 7970 (if overclocked) has blown past them. By multi-monitor resolutions, the 7970 is dominating them.



Not for multi-monitor resolutions. [H] showed the 2Gb of ram was crippling the GTX680 in 5760x1080 resolution when the aliasing was turned up.
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Neither of these statements jibes with the [H] reviews I have read of the 680. What are you talking about?
 
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