| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Video Card Tests |  |
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| Thursday, 10 May 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: Unigine Heaven 3.0The Unigine Heaven 2.1 benchmark is a free publicly available tool that grants the power to unleash the graphics capabilities in DirectX-11 for Windows 7 or updated Vista Operating Systems. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode, emerging experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extend and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming. The distinguishing feature in the Unigine Heaven benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces, so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand. Although Heaven-2.1 was recently released and used for our DirectX-11 tests, the benchmark results were extremely close to those obtained with Heaven-1.0 testing. Since only DX11-compliant video cards will properly test on the Heaven benchmark, only those products that meet the requirements have been included.
Heaven Benchmark Test Results
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Comments
Also was wondering if Battlefield 3 on three monitors and 3dVision will be as memory hungry or if I should wait for the upcoming 4 gig cards?
Go to Toughest bench first -> Metro2033 3 frame difference
Go to To will it play nerfed -> Crysis2 3 frame difference
Go to Gbuffer tech to see memory intensive app -> Battlefield3 3 frame difference!
Finish off with Physx example/open city that opened with shakey driver support: ArkhamCity... 3 Frame Differnce
?Check Price again...
According to Nvidia Math 3 frames represents the single GPU flagship performance that justifies a $100 price difference?
Perhaps a metro 2033/ Battlefied3 3Dvision + NV surround With dual tri ( quad? ) SLI is needed to show more advantage not yet exposed?
Otherwise I sure am glad there have not been any GTX 680 stock.
( I suppose a new wave of powerful games that will not be as nerfed by console economics when the next gen of consoles are released will validate the $100 difference as well... But I would suspect that Metro 2033 should have been enough of a burden for the gtx 680 to prove the advantage of it's muscle?? )
Was a GK 100 chip or GTX 780 rumor ever accounted for??
It would seem reasonable by looking at the results of this bench that perhaps some of the rumors have some truth? Perhaps the gtx 680 is a different flagship class then the 480 and 580???
( otherwise the gtx 570 was virtually equal to a 480... Compared to the KO "beatdown" the 670 gives the 580? ( boom! )
Don't know why the article starts with a concentration comparing against the 570 it replaces? The obvious story is: Why is this card practically a gtx 680 gk104 with the same memory?? Just turned down slightly? Better power requirement handling under load? While at lower temperture under load? ( with a 3 frame difference at the max settings given I would love to see if it can overclock as well? )
If it can... Then for $300 dollars cheaper! I can easily see the gtx670 tri sli the big story of the year ( if it scales well? )
Just seems so weird at the price point to actually dive in just yet. But if nothing develops that explains or ruins the ridiculous value... after x-mas I will definitely tri Sli the 670.
???
unbelievable!
Knowing that I might have saved $300 on my tri sli replacement makes me so happy I have spent the past round of benchmarks squealing in glee like a little girl riding a pretty pink bony bareback!(some of which showing even less of a divide like Tom's showing "less than" < the 3 seconds in Metro 2033 even at the extrem rez of 2650 x 1600!!)
Sure is hard for me to consider considering the possible implications "pointless"? Tho I suppose current developments might just be dumb luck.
But let us assume u r exactly right? In which case, what happens to gtx 680 production? How can they possibly sell any more of them at $100 more now? What kind of idiot would u have to be? (I suppose some might just blindly trudge on despite the obvious value disparity?)
When the single gpu flagship pride has been a point of prestige as much as anything else! And in light of the recent Jon Pedi Research numbers showing the projected multi-Billion ( $23 Billion ) Dollar PC gaming market explosion driven by performance gaming systems. Where according to their research:
The Enthusiast Market of systems costing over $3400 dollars a build represent as much of the final dollar share in the end as the performance systems costing over $1000 a build! And each of which alone, are more than double the markets dollar share compared to the ghetto gamer (gaming builds costing about $800)who invariably QQ's the loudest in support of their needs when they are contributing the least to the detriment of the gaming experience suffered by the peformance and above market who actually created this explosion in the first place!) In other words, The low and Mid Range users at the end of this console cycle are poised to become the new least common denominator that brings down the level of gaming for the rest of us! (Now that soon the blame can not be leveled squarely with the consoles)
In light of the new PC gaming revolution the last thing Nvidia would want to do is to lose credibility on their flagship model when the enthusiast Market numbers show how important they actually are.
( Unless they r going to play smoke and mirrors and just Promote their dual GPU flagship and the GTX 670 and Ignore the GTX680?
Just as long as there is a price drop now on the gtx 690 so original gtx 680 hopefuls do not do something really dumb out of anger and haste like "go with AMD".
That would be a tough choice between them.
I am kind of excited now to see what results from the upcoming 660 benchmarks?
At this point maybe we will see another deal. Where the card is to powerful compared to the 670!
It could happen. I haven't gone cheap in a long time. it would be awesome actually? Considering Maxwelll seems to be creeping up incredibly fast?
But then again Metro 2033 was actually 4 seconds not 3!
So maybe the 680 did "start" to show it's muscle by pulling away at the burden of Metro 2033?
( So perhaps a stress test representing next gen 2.0 upcoming market with the added burden of extreme resolution and 3dvision? )
That Metro 2033's burden still only resulted in a 1 frame difference does not seem to inspire much confidence though? ( heck 1 frame isnt enough concern for most users to give any credence to an PCI-E X8 speed difference )
Unbelievable?
take it out clean it replace the thermal paste with some AS5 and come back and tell us how well the temps dropped
I'm looking to use it for CUDA rendering..