GTX 680 - 1536 CUDA / 190w ?!

[SnowBeast]

There is no point in releasing a card that is 2x or more powerful than your last card. Gradual upgrades, even when better technology is available, means more $$ for less. AMD and Nvidia are not fools, they will milk us for as much as they possibly can.
You will never see a 2x or more faster than last gen's top card ever if AMD and Nvidia are thinking with their money brains.
This alone should help you see which benchmarks are most likely false or true.

Who is to say it doesn't have twice the power in physx or 3x? Alot of that demo had to do with Physx. It took 3x 580 to run it decent. Probably 2x for graphics and 1 for physx. So yes, it should be able to do it by those accounts. From all the rumors Nvidia really concentrated on having little impact on graphical performance with an increase in physx computation. And with a new architecture it can and seems to have happened that way. No it won't be 3x 580 graphically, but either was last years demo fully used for all graphical capabilitys.

 

[spacing guild]

There is no point in releasing a card that is 2x or more powerful than your last card. Gradual upgrades, even when better technology is available, means more $$ for less. AMD and Nvidia are not fools, they will milk us for as much as they possibly can.
You will never see a 2x or more faster than last gen's top card ever if AMD and Nvidia are thinking with their money brains.
This alone should help you see which benchmarks are most likely false or true.

Wasn't the 8800 GTX like more than twice a 7900 series card?

 

[Camberwell]

either way....it's done when its done, people always lose their minds a few days or weeks before the release of new stuff, then argue about the benhmarks, then argue about the price, and finally the availability.......and when the dust clears, start arguing about drivers.

same old-same old.

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