GeForce 680GTX released

[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????


~S~

[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.

[Codex]

This is good stuff.

I'm curious why Flanker gets a higher ave rate than Ragz with AMD, given that Ragz has a higher speced system and both are running the same res.

@Ragz ... do you have SSD?

[Flanker35M]

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Propably because I did OC my CPU to 4.0GHz from 3.3GHz. I do not think SSD helps that much. I prefer to run the track a couple of times so the textures load into memory before running the benchmark.

[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

[Raggz]

Originally Posted by 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.

OC'ed to 4426mhz and turned off v-sync. The rest is the same settings and i got these numbers in Black Death:

Minimum: 10
average: 53
Maximum: 142

Shows that both the cards are up to par with another. At least in this game
God i love this card


Here's a screenshot of another run in Black Death:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/raggz/s...956?tab=public

[Flanker35M]

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Raggz, exactly my thoughts And we can test more after the patch! BTW..how do you like Ivy Bridge and X79 chipset? I am really hard pondering getting that, but again will the gain be enough to warrant the higher cost? What do you think?

[Raggz]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Raggz, exactly my thoughts And we can test more after the patch! BTW..how do you like Ivy Bridge and X79 chipset? I am really hard pondering getting that, but again will the gain be enough to warrant the higher cost? What do you think?

I upgraded from I7 950 X58 chipset and i don't regret it one second. But it is a lot of money. Hard to say for me if it's worth it to you.

It's damn fast and i'm loving it. Everything just pops up.
Asus SSD disc cache is very nice to. I bought a 60Gb SSD for that and a 240gb SSD for favourite games.