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Hi, I'm Arina and the Techno Kitchen.
and today we'll take a look at GeForce GTX 680 video card.
Nvidia's single chip flagship seems to be an improved version of HD 7970.
It has good frequency for overclocking with GPU Boost technology
Being economically viable, it has two instead of three gigabytes of memory, and is considered to be equally powerful, and we'll look into later on.
Being 10 inches long the card is shorter than HD 7970 which length is around 11 inches
One more advantage of the green color style is represented by 6 pin power plugs while one of HD 7970 power plugs was 8 pin style.
6 pin power plugs are attached one above another in order to make the card space saving.
One of the plugs is a buried style that is friendly designed for disconnecting the plugs latched to one another.
600 watt power supply is quite enough for the card entire operation including overclocking.
Maximum power of the card is 195W being 55W less than HD 7970.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 is equipped with two DVI ports, one HDMI port, and a display port as per specifications.
From the new features we can see up to 4 monitor multimonitor gaming, and the above mentioned GPU Boost.
If the set-up thermal package allows, the card will automatically increase the temperature, and frequency to make the user happy with the performance. On top of that, the user will be also happy with the improved synchronization.
If the frequency is more than 60 fps then the card will work within the limits leading to power saving, and if the frequency goes down then the synchronization is off.
In the previous models it would go down to 30 fps being not sufficient for lots of players, and it is always better to have 35 rather than 30 fps.
It is an interesting thing that the market shows lots of GTX 680 types pricing from 18 to 22 thousand rubles.
The fact remains that many of them are reference samples, and made by one and the same plant making the brand name unimportant as the differences are represented by stickers, guarantee term and conditions, and package.
We have a reference sample from the Point of View. We are very happy with the card price as the manufacturer decided not to increase the cost of the packaging where there was nothing else in the package beside the CD, and that is a good point from our opinion.
Turn on the card, and you will find out its good silence feature as it is completely noiseless.
Chip stand-by temperature is 33-40 degrees.
Let's have a 45 minute card warming in Futuremark, and we are having sixty four per cent that is equal to 44 decibels per one meter while the HD 7970 had forty nine point five decibels per one meter.
So, GTX 680 is more silence card than HD 7970. Now, let's overclock it using EVGA precision X software with default core frequency equal to 1006 MHz.
The frequency went up to 1273 MHz including our manual overclocking, and GPU Boost feature. 20% add-up is perfect for a flagship video card. New 28 nanometer processor really works miracles.
However, memory overclocking was not positive, and seems like six thousand eight MHz is enough for everything.
We slightly overclocked memory up to one hundred seventy six MHz in the same way as the core.
All cards are tested under overclocking to see their maximum possible performance.
As usual let's have a Mafia test. GTX 680 - 101 fps, rating A. At last we achieved 100 fps per second that is a great result making the card to be the king of the Kitchen
It's a good and intriguing start.
Metro 2033 shows a significant loss of NVIDIA being 6-7 fps is worse than its rival.
Okay. Well, let's start Battlefield 3 to see all the best things that can do GTX 680, GTX is way faster, and it managed sixty one fps,
at the same time its rival earned only fifty two, the difference is significant!
Now, we're at a loss. Let Stalker call of Pripyat tell us the sentence! And the Stalker was not smiling on the greens as Radeon HD 7970 is more powerful!
Crisis 2, - and the Radeon is a winner again having sixty six fps versus fifty five-fifty seven fps. 9-11 fps is great break away!
Our opinion is that Radeon HD 7970 is more powerful, and if the price is the same it would be much more reasonable to buy it instead of GTX 680.
Comparing GTX 680 with GTX 580 the new card is surely better than the old one. There is 7 fps difference in Metro.
There is a big difference in Battlefield 3 equal to 15-30 fps. During the battle instead of 45 fps for GTX 580, we have 60-70 fps for GTX 680 that is really nice.
Well, speaking about other games.
For example, Masseffect 3 we see incredible number of fps, and this is due to full HD Ultra settings and smoothing. The question would be "what is the purpose of this high power"?
The answer is to use for game at the same time several monitors, to play 3D, or to play 3D on several monitors.
Well, we have a really nice, quiet video card for the Battlefield. It's awarded with a gold medal from us. Thank you for watching us, and see you soon! Bye!