Dunno where ya hear that, but the card is not much more than an update as the 7xxx serie is. It is on a new architecture and has the power of 2x6950.
Here a few benchmarks and graphs you can discuss about.
Due the hot,hotter,the hottest promises Nvidea did again for the Kepler (6xx) before release (as with the Thermi...eh Fermi), I expected a far superior card to the Thahiti (7xxx), but well , I guess I will stay for my plans on investing into ATI.At high resolutions is absolutely cranks down, and tesselation doesnt seem to be its advantage.
For sure it needs a few driver optimisations, but this cant be the excuse for an end resulkt, that doesnt equals Nvideas offisial announcements ... again.
I guess I will have the possibility to test 2 x 680 vs 2 x 7950 coming week at work.
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