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It’s a 3.54 billion transistor chip, with a die size of 294mm² in comparison to the GTX 580 1.5GB’s GF110 GPU, that has 18 per cent more transistors in a 40 per cent smaller die. The 28nm Kepler GPU at the heart of the GTX 680 2GB has been dubbed GK104 by Nvidia. There’s a lot of new technology, design choices and features to cover, so we’ll try and hit the basics on this page, before going into (a lot) more detail separately. Nvidia is calling the Geforce GTX 680 2GB the fastest, most efficient GPU ever built bold claims considering the substantial increases on both fronts exhibited by AMD’s 7-series graphics cards. Can Nvidia banish the Fermi-flavoured demons of 2010 and deliver a GPU to be proud of? Let’s find out.Ĭlick to enlarge - Will the GTX 680 2GB be your next graphics card upgrade? Today sees the first answering shot from Nvidia in the battle for 28nm supremacy, with the flagship GTX 680 2GB taking aim at AMD’s high-end.
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The HD 7900 series of graphics cards and their 28nm Tahiti GPUs have been on sale for close to three months, with AMD filling out the rest of its range in the meantime to greater (HD 7800 series) and lesser (HD 7700 series) success. Fast forward to 2012 and we again find Nvidia trailing AMD. Shipping six months after AMD had debuted its DX11 GPUs based on the very successful Evergreen architecture, Nvidia was left playing catch up with a card that failed to impress. Two years ago, almost to the day, Nvidia released its first DX11 GPU based on the Fermi architecture, the GTX 480 1.5GB. We’ve reached out to NVIDIA to ask why the GeForce GTX 950 would have more memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 960 when it has slower clocked memory and features the same GM206 GPU albeit some things are disabled.It’s funny how history tends to repeat itself.
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The GeForce GTX 355.69 drivers are not compatible with the GeForce GTX 960 for some reason. We are really shocked that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 had higher memory bandwidth than the GForce GTX 960! We tested the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 with GeForce 355.60 and the GeForce GTX 950 with GeForce GTX 355.69 drivers. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 is rated as have 105.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth and we averaged 98.0 GB/s across the 2GB frame buffer. We weren’t expecting to reach the theoretical peak bandwidth figures, but all of the cards came in reasonably close. The ASUS STRIX 950 2GB and ASUS STRIX 960 2GB video cards are the only non-reference cards in the chart below. Nai’s GPU memory bandwidth test only works on NVIDIA CUDA cards, so we tested a handful of NVIDIA GeForce GTX reference cards from the Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell series to see how they perform.
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We also disabled Windows Aero and set the system to high performance mode for both the display settings and power settings. We built a new system to test just memory bandwidth it is best the test on a system that has a CPU with integrated graphics in order for the discrete graphics card can be run in headless mode. Testing memory bandwidth on video cards is tricky, but we’ve been dabbling around testing it in recent weeks.