Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Will Blow The AMD Radeon HD 7970 Away

By Nathan Kirsch

Lenzfire says that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (Kepler) will be up to 45% faster than AMDs Radeon HD 7970 ‘Tahiti’ graphics card. The site goes on to say that the GeForce GTX680 will have a 2GB frame buffer and will be priced at $649 when it launches in April 2012. If this rumor is true it means that for $100 more than an AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB card you will get a video card that is up to 45% faster. If this is true, it will be really good news for NVIDIA. Of course, this is just a rumor and with launch still over a month away it will be interesting to pan things out. It is always entertaining to check out the video card speculations before a major launch!

NVIDIA GeForce GTX680 GPU-Z

NVIDIA GeForce GTX680 Video Card Specifications:

  • 850MHz Core clock
  • 2 GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 Memory
  • 1024 Stream Processors
  • 512bit Bus Width
  • Priced at $649

All the rumors say that NVIDIA will be the clear winner in upcoming matchups, but time will tell. NVIDIA did sit down with Legit Reviews at CES 2012 and told us to our face that they expected much more from AMD and the Radeon HD 7900 series. They said they did not fear the Radeon lineup for 2012, so we can’t wait to see what they are cooking. NVIDIA is really good at product marketing and they have managed to get us talking by telling us pretty much nothing.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 Series Lineup Details:

  • GTX 690 – 2x750MHz Core / 2×1.75GB 4.5GHz GDDR5 / 2×448-bit bus / 2×1024 CUDA Cores / $999
  • GTX 680 – 850MHz Core / 2GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 / 512-bit bus / 1024 CUDA Cores / $649
  • GTX 670 – 850MHz Core / 1.75GB 5GHz GDDR5 / 448-bit bus / 896 CUDA Cores / $499
  • GTX 660 Ti – 850MHz Core / 1.5GB 5GHz GDDR5 / 384-bit bus / 768 CUDA Cores / $399
  • GTX 660 – 900MHz Core / 2GB 5.8GHz GDDR5 / 256-bit bus / 768 CUDA Cores / $319
  • GTX 650 Ti – 850MHz Core / 1.75GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 / 224-bit bus / 448 CUDA Cores / $249
  • GTX 650 – 900MHz Core / 1.5GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 / 192-bit bus / 256 CUDA Cores / $179
  • GTX 640 – 850MHz Core / 2GB 5.5GHz GDDR5 / 128-bit bus / 192 CUDA Cores / $139
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