GeForce 680GTX released

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Originally Posted by Codex

Has anyone overclocked the 7970 at all?

I'm curious because of the specs b/n the two cards. It would "appear" that the only thing holding the 7970 back is it's core and memory clock speeds. If it was overclocked to be closer to the GTX680 levels, I think the 7970 would beat the GTX680 due to it bigger bus size.

Here is the test with both cards OC'ed to max:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-gtx...e/15322-5.html

Maximum clock will vary from card to card, but i think that in general gtx680 has a bit better OC potential.
Also GK104 was produced as performance chip, not high end.
That is obvious from ~300 mm^2 chip surface and 256 bit memory bus.
From the leaks before release it may be concluded that in first nvidia
planned to name it 670 Ti

http://www.techpowerup.com/162901/Di...X-670-Ti-.html

Probably when they got first samples, realized that they can clock it higher then expected and beat 7970 at least at 1980 and 2560 resolutions,
so they finaly realised card as gtx680.