NVIDIA Launches 'Kepler' based GeForce GTX 680, Worlds Fastest GPU
NVIDIA's 28nm new generation of graphics cards has arrived, and they're touting higher image quality, better performance and lower power as their key features:
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Every two years or so, NVIDIA engineers set out to design a new architecture for its GPUs, or graphics processing units. The architecture defines a GPU's building blocks, how they're connected, and how they work. The architecture is the basis not just for a single chip but a family of chips that serves a whole spectrum of systems, from high performance PCs to wafer thin notebooks, from medical workstations to supercomputers. It is the blueprint for every NVIDIA GPU for the next two years.
Today, NVIDIA is launching Kepler, the much anticipated successor to the Fermi architecture. With Kepler we wanted not only to build the world's fastest GPU, but also the world's most power efficient. Feature wise, we added new technologies that fundamentally improve the smoothness of each frame and the richness of the overall experience.
Kepler introduces two key changes that greatly improve the GPU's efficiency. First, we completely designed the streaming multiprocessor, the most important building block of our GPUs, for optimal performance per watt. Second, we added a feature called GPU Boost that dynamically increases clock speed to improve performance within the card's power budget.
Kepler's new SM, called SMX, is a radical departure from past designs. SMX eliminates the Fermi "2x" processor clock and uses the same base clock across the GPU. To balance out this change, SMX uses an ultra wide design with 192 CUDA cores. With a total of 1536 cores across the chip, the GeForce GTX 680 handily outperforms the GeForce GTX 580.
The GeForce GTX 680 is quite unlike any flagship graphics card we've ever built. We've built the fastest GPU in the world for many generations now. With Kepler, we wanted to do more than just repeat that feat.
Kepler is really about starting from first principles and asking: beyond performance, how can we improve the gaming experience as a whole?
Gamers told us they want GPUs that are cooler, quieter, and more power efficient. So we re-designed the architecture to do just that. The GeForce GTX 680 consumes less power than any flagship GPU since the original GeForce 8800 GTX, yet it outperforms every GPU we or anyone else have ever built.
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Average FPS is that matters, not some 300fps when my monitor for example is 60Hz..I look mostly on minimums and average, anything over 60fps is just a bonus for me.
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