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March 21st, 2012

GeForce Kepler GK110 Specification

GeForce Kepler GK110 Specification geforce gtx 685
3DCenter.org posted their new analysis of latest rumors about upcoming high-end gpu chip named GK110. This Kepler based gpu is planned for August, but there is no verified information about this at the moment. Nevertheless, 3DCenter decided to compile first performance predictions of GK110 in comparison to GTX 680, which will be released tomorrow.

According to 3DCenter, new GK110 chip may have up to 550mm2 of die size. This would be 87% more than actual GK104. Some say this is too much, and NVIDIA will not release gpu that large, because cost production of such gpus is significantly higher. But latest rumors suggest that it may be somewhere in those dimensions. Bigger die allows engineers to put more SMX’s on new gpu. It is said that GK110 may have up to 2304 CUDA cores. NVIDIA is already preparing their GeForce GTX 690, a dual-GK104 card, which will have 3072 CUDA cores. This would put AMD in very bad position. AMD is already preparing factory overclocked Radeon HD 7970 as a response to GTX 680 performance. There are also plans for Radeon HD 7990, which will put AMD on the top position of performance race for a moment. NVIDIA will release their dual-gpu GTX 690 card right after that, which will replace a winner once more.

Going back to GK110, a card built in 28nm process, which will likely have 2304 CUDA cores, may have completely reorganized GPU structure. Streaming multiprocessors may rise to 10 (in comparison to GTX 680). NVIDIA could use 512-bit memory interface on this one. It is rumored that GK110 will consume around 250 Watts. Card should be prepared for August 2012. Naming is not yet revealed, but since GTX 680 is already taken, this card may be called GTX 685 (leaving GTX 690 brand for dual-gk104). It is also possible that NVIDIA will decide to release new GK110 gpu as a card from GeForce 700 series, but this would be a marketing failure as owners of GTX 680 would feel confused – having a graphics card which is a generation old after 5 months.

 HD 7970 Tahiti XTGTX 680 GK104GTX 685 GK110
Die Size:365mm2294mm2550mm2 (+87%)
Transistors:4.3 billion3.54 billion6 billion
GCN/CUDA Cores:204815362304
Single Precision Computing Power3.79 TFlops3.09 TFlops4.5TFlops
Gaming Performance85%100%150%
Power Consumption211 Watts185 Watts250-300 Watts
Launch Price:$549$549$650
Release Date:2011-12-222012-3-22August 2012

Author: WhyCry  

  • CMMCQ

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  • Jchan

    My gosh…GTX680 is already a beast…and another one coming better than the 680 in Aug?! AMD sure is in trouble…

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  • Iddee

    This is not going to effect AMD… because by the time they actually release the GK110.. they will be on the horizon of the 8000.  
    Nvidia is playing catch up on time.  There is no accomplishment by having a faster chip but releasing it 8 months late.  
    Personally the gk110 is what I wanted and was waiting for.  But with the games played and renaming the lower gk104 to the 680. 
    I just went to amd for this round.  Time will tell what happens.  Hoping nvidia picks it up cuz I would like to have a gk110.  

  • Santi

    WTF ? 8 MONTHS later???? lol release date of 7970 was 22/12/11 and nvidia’s 680 will be tomorrow so, 3 month not 8 LOL

  • Iddee

    im talking about the GK110 (article is about the gk110) .. not the gk104.  The gk104 still needs to be benchmarked by someone
    other than nvidia.  So time will tell just how much “faster” the gtx680 will be.  10-15% faster is not much
    of an accomplishment.  

  • Piga

    So what about the gk 110? The gk104 can handle a 7970 very well no?

    Yes  10 to 15%, is not that faster, but if i told you that 10 to 15% with less 55w, is that better to you??

  • BestJinjo

    HD7970 wasn’t actually for sale until January 9th, while HD7950 came out January 31st!

    HD7950 at $450 looks pretty horrilbe if GTX680 launches at $550. HD7950 needs a price cut to $360-380 imho. Also, IF GTX685 is a beast with 6B transistors and it’s 50% faster than GTX680, then AMD will need to launch HD8000 series this year. But from AMD’s financial analyst presentation earlier this year, Sea Islands HD8000 is not schedules until Q1 2013.The most likely scenario is that AMD will do an HD4870–> HD4890 style clock speed bump or retweak the HD7970 similar to X1800XT –> X1900XT. Based on how close in performance HD7870 is to HD7950, there seem to be balance issues with the design of HD7900 series (prob. ROP starved). All that extra memory bandwidth advantage isn’t helping HD7950 vs. HD7870. That’s another sign that there is some bottleneck in the HD7900 series design. 

  • BestJinjo

    It was already benched by Computerbase and Tom’s and they both got 18% average performance increase. 

    Also, GK104 is the mid-range chip in the Kepler lineup. So if it already can easily beat HD7970 even by 10-20%, then once the flagship GTX685 launches (even if it comes in 8 months), HD7970′s value will plummet to $300. It’s kinda hard to commit $550 on a GPU purchase when  you know in the next 6 months every single game is a console port that can be maxed out on an HD7870 at 1080P, while in less than a year there will potentially be a card for $600 that will clobber HD7970 by 60-75%. That’s mostly AMD’s conservatism at play here. They should have launched HD7970 at 1200mhz to begin with. That would have allowed them to hold the single-GPU performance crown for most of this year. 

  • Iddee

    while i agree with you mostly and i personally bought a 7870, you cant really base some of your opinion on price.  No one knows what the gk110 would really go for.  For all we know the gk110 could be priced a significant amount higher than the 680 and the pricing scheme doesnt change.  
    When i first heard about the kepler series.. i was excited.  a gtx 670 that was intended to have the gk110 priced about $400.  Thought they would change game with that kind of price to performance.  
    Now both amd and nvidia is significantly raising their prices for the same tier of cards.  
    SO lets hold judgement on price till they actually officially say that “thats the price”

    yea 1080p is maxed out but these cards are suppose to support the 4k resolution. 
    so i wonder when those type of monitors will hit the market.  That will definitely push
    these higher end cards to their limits.  

  • BestJinjo

    4K monitor support is moot for 3 reasons:

    1) A 55-60 inch 1080P Plasma screen is already $1,500-$1,700 USD. So how much do you think a 4K Plasma TV will cost? At least $3-4K in the next 3-4 years.2) 4K is 4x the resolution of 1080P. That means we’d need a card with performance 4x GTX580/HD7870 to have any chance at similar framerates that those cards get in games at 1080P today. What about games in 2 years from now? You’ll need GTX685 in Tri-SLI to have any chance to have playability in next generation games at 4K. Good luck with that! 

    3) 1% of 1% market will care about 4K LCDs: Looking at the cost of small 30 inch 2560×1600 LCD monitors for the PC, a 30 inch 4K monitor on the PC will prob. run $4,000! Even now paying $1100-1200 for a pathetic 30 inch 1600P LCD monitor is a joke when compared to a 55 inch Plasma that has deeper blacks, instantaneous response time, far better color reproduction, way better viewing angles, almost 2x the screen size and you can actually use it for watching sports, movies and games (a 30 inch LCD for PC is garbage for everything except professional office work and games).Basically the target market for a 4K LCD monitor on the PC is too small, while serious videophiles laugh at LEDs/LCDs for movies and sports. And people who are actually willing to drop $3-4K on a TV will want a 55-60 inch 4K TV with amazing image quality –> OLED/Plasma. 

    So basically 4K gaming is at least 5 years away. By this point GTX680 will be slower than integrated graphics in AMD’s CPUs by 2017.

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  • Dark_Knight

    22/12/11 was been paper launch!The First cards have arrived in january 2012. So Kepler coming about month and half time later than AMD 7970.Timing is good.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JZ4ZTN4XQY6B7JM627YOPRGPSU Squall

    posting retarded shit again?

    GK110 won’t be released in the 600 series.

  • Xeridea

    30″ monitors are bought for the high screen resolution, for work, play, or whatever, which is way better than stupid tri-monitor with giant bevels.  BTW, plasma sucks.  People don’t get 30″ computer monitors to watch sports, and a 55-60″ TV is kinda stupid, at that size/price you may as well get a full blown home theater with 120″ screen.  I can’t believe you are saying plasma is better than LED, there is no comparison, plasma is so 1999.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YOCT4NL7YSYO4DHX6PXDDR3ZTU Trey

    It will, genius. -_-

    It will be called GTX 685. Google it.

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     And you are who, NVIDIA employee? 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/danny.dogg.62 Danny Archer

    I’m wondering if i should wait for an AMD Radeon 7990 or get myself the Nvidia GTX680 or wait for it to get maxed by a constructor like gainward, Nvidia seems faster but AMD more power

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  • wargamer1969

    512 bits and 4GB a ram with dual cooling fans preferably from MSI to replace my 2 MSI 580s 3GB versions this Fall please!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/gpharman George Harman

    Still sticking with original 110 architecture. 2 GTX SC 470′s in SLI still haven’t needed to upgrade. Not going to pay $2000 to replace what I got for $740. I definitely like the computing perspective coming back, but they are just plain ripping off the consumer. When the 400 series came out, the 110 were the 470 and 480. Now the 670 & 680 are the 104. The 110 is the Titan, but it is really more like what the 680 and 670 SHOULD BE.