GeForce 680GTX released

[Raggz]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Athos, I had a discussion with my parts dealer and we agreed to let the dust settle a bit before making the jump. And this testing on my rig would be useful for me. Could for sure see if I would gain anything by going nVidia. I like the 7970HD a lot and 680GTX seems to be a strong good card too. But as it seems a few FPS does not warrant any changes in my rig..yet I would rather jump to the PCIe 3.0 Ivy Bridge to get maximum performance out of the 7970HD..but again will that be so much of a difference. That is why I wait for Raggz posting his results so much!

Coming in late tonight depending on delivery time or in worst case tomorrow morning. Already benched with my gtx 580 to compare with. So now... i just wait, wait, wait, wait... this day is going to be painfully long. I'm always like a kid on christmas when i got something new incoming

[335th_GRAthos]

Nice one Raggz,

Can you please give us some info, what kind of graphics resolution you play the game currently?


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[Raggz]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Nice one Raggz,

Can you please give us some info, what kind of graphics resolution you play the game currently?


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my rig is in the sig and i play in 1920x1080 on a 27" LCD with every gfx setting on maximum. Also enabled 16x aniso in the nvidia control panel.

[Raggz]

Ok, so i had a few runs with the GTX680 and IL2 COD.

Settings:

GTX 580 running 1920x1080 all gfx settings on maximum. Vsync Off.

GTX580 Black death track:
Minimum fps: 1 (bomb hitting runway where the hurry takes off)
average fps: 36
maximum: 112

GTX680 same settings only with Adaptive v-sync ON.
minimum: 14 (bomb hitting runway where the hurry takes off)
average: 48
Maximum: 72 (this is adaptive v-sync in the works)

3Dmark11 scores (doesn't mean shit but here they are anyways)
Using the extreme setting
GTX580: 2160
GTX680: 3219

A few words.
I am quite impressed on how the new v-sync methods are working but the new Turbo booster is the big one here. I tried a big mission over london with about 100 planes and i could clearly notice when the turbo kicked in and gave an instant fps boost from 10-20fps depending on altitude. At low altitude i was roughly steady on 20-25fps, and i'm talking rooftops altitude. With gtx580 it wasn't playable at this altitude as it gave me about 10-12fps.
Even though 20-25fps is abit under the limit i can at least get the hell out without losing control or crash due to fps lag.
Over london i had a minimum of 19, average 49, maximum 74. Adaptive v-sync on.

If Nvidia really has a bigger boy hiding out there for a summer release it will surtainly kick some serious ass because this card is fekkin brilliant.
And also. The new cooling system is awesome. I can hardly hear the card on full load. I actually had to take a peek in the case to see if the fan was running. Absolutely stunningly low sound
Gonna try out ArmA 2 and RO2 now. Posting more results later tonight

[335th_GRAthos]

Excellent news Raggz,

Thanks for posting so quickly!


Flanker,
Your ATI 7970 running 1920x1080 all gfx settings on maximum. Vsync Off,
what do you get at the Black Death????


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[Flanker35M]

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Just ran Black Death at 1920x1080 with Very High preset in IL-2. SSAO, Epilepsy Filter and VSync was off. Results below.

Min: 6FPS
Max: 132FPS
Avg: 52FPS

I clocked my CPU to 4GHz just for testing. Next gonna crank the 7970HD to 680GTX clock speeds or as close as possible it has without the boost.

EDIT: Overclocked 7970HD, but saw no real increase or maybe my GPU/Mem ratio was wrong. Need to re-check it.

[vranac]

Thanks for posting results so quickly Raggz.
Enjoy in your new toy

But could you please try one run w/o adaptive Vsync, just for testing.
I understand that this is very good improvement for real use,
and I'm glad that it is working well.

And maybe you can put that 3930K beast at least on 4 GHz w/o turbo
I'm shure that you just need to change multi in BIOS.

[mcler002]

Originally Posted by Raggz

If Nvidia really has a bigger boy hiding out there for a summer release it will surtainly kick some serious ass because this card is fekkin brilliant.
And also. The new cooling system is awesome. I can hardly hear the card on full load. I actually had to take a peek in the case to see if the fan was running. Absolutely stunningly low sound
Gonna try out ArmA 2 and RO2 now. Posting more results later tonight

Plus one on the noise, my old gtx 280 would buzz away and make the room feel like an oven!!! My card got up to 80oc and only used half the fan speed! Really loving this card, shall certainly think of either an sli set up or trade up to an rog if and when in the future. Ross start saving!!! Lol