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March 7th, 2012

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Ti Features Automatic Overclocking, Arrives in March

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A reliable source has posted many interesting information about upcoming high-end graphics card from NVIDIA – GeForce GTX 670 Ti. Credibility of this leaks is high, most of the information was obtained during CeBIT from people from NVIDIA.

The most important thing is its performance. According to Heise.de GeForce GTX 670 Ti has 10% better performance than Radeon HD 7970 in Battlefield 3. It is, however, slower than Radeon HD 7970 in synthetic benchmark 3DMark11.

GTX 670 Ti features new technology, which is automatic overclocking called Speed Boost. It is similar to software overclocking, when card switches its profiles 2D/Low3D/3D based on computing power required. This time it will be fully hardware technology. Long story short, GTX 680 will automatically scale clocks according to demand.

Card is based on 1536 CUDA cores, it will support 2GB of GDDR5 memory on 256-bit interface. For more detailed specifications click here. Later this year NVIDIA will launch second variant of GeForce GTX 670 Ti with 4GB of memory. It is officially 28nm GK104 core.

GeForce GTX 680 will arrive this month and it’s not a paper launch. Card will be available in small quantities for purchase.

News about GK107, 2xGK104 and GK110
There is also an information about dual-gpu based on GK104 core, which is to be released in May, probably during GTC 2012. In April NVIDIA will publish information about mid-range GK107.

This year we may also see even more powerful card from NVIDIA, based on GK110 gpu. It would feature 2304 CUDA cores. It is unkown when NVIDIA is planning to release their GK110 gpu, but it may be after AMD releases their Radeon HD 7000 series dual-gpu card.

3DCenter Report
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Ti Features Automatic Overclocking, Arrives in March geforce gtx 690 geforce gtx 680 geforce gtx 670ti

3DCenter.org has made a report about GK104 based on its specifications. Kepler should have 17% more computing power than Radeons HD 7970 Tahiti core. On the other hand bandwidth, performance of raster operations and texture filling performance on GK104 is on average 24% worse.

  • Jchan

    Come on Nvidia! AMD is out with its all its lineups! Might get a 7870 soon! Just cant wait for Kepler!

  • BestJinjo

    So a GTX680 GK104 with 1536 SPs will trade blows with HD7970 (sometimes up to 10% faster in real world games)?

    Looks like NV is moving what was originally intended to be a $399 card and “renaming” it into a GTX680 since it’s good enough to compete with a $550 HD7970. Sounds like us consumers got shafted because AMD set the bar so low and now NV is content to launch upper-mid-range GK104 as high-end.

    I am waiting for GTX780 (GK110) then. 2304 SPs and hopefully 384-bit memory will bring another 40-50% boost over GTX680. That card I’ll pay $600 for. Sounds like the performance crown of HD7970/GTX680 (GK104) will be short lived, 6 months at most. Those who grabbed HD7970 at release made a smart move. Looks like GK104 is all NV has for the next 6 months. Lame.

  • Itguru

    Lol 10 % faster in some games with Nvidia’s TWIWMTBP. The 3D Center Report shows its 17% faster than the 7970 in computer power but 24% slower in all the other categories, total BS just bring out the real GTX 680 based on the GK110 gpu!

  • BestJinjo

    Nvidia’s TWIMTBP games? You realize in those exact games, the most modern DX11 features are used such as Bokeh Depth of Field, SSAO/HBAO, Tessellation. You know in those games HD7970 has the largest lead over HD6970 series?

    Also gamers don’t care if a game is Nvidia’s TWIMTBP or not. I don’t pick up BF3 and say oh crap, NV developed it. No. I get a videocard that plays the games I play the best. If it happens that 5 out of 7 games I intend to play the most run faster on AMD, that’s the card i’d get even if they are Nvidia’s TWIMTBP.

    If you remove Crysis 2, BF3, Metro 2033, Anno 2070 from the list, then there isn’t even a point of getting a new videocard today. I agree with you that they should bring out the full blown GTX680. Beating HD7970 by 10% isn’t going to do anything since HD7970 overclocks 30-40%.