Nvidia GTX 680

[Margus Voll]

what about drivers etc ?

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[David Pirinelli]

The Anandtech review found the GPU Compute performance to be lacking, below a 570 even.

Haven’t seen a CUDA test yet but so far it looks like there is no “Magic Bullet” here.

[Margus Voll]

i bet it really depends on the application how and what it does?

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Colin Travers]

Curious how it will compare to the 3GB 580 card for MacPro use.

DaVinci 8.2 OSX 10.6.8
MacPro 12-core 5,1 2.66 Ghz
32GB RAM
RAID0 8TB Internal
Nvidia GT120/GTX470
BMD Extreme3D
HDlink3D DisplayPort
Dreamcolor/Panny VT25
Tangent Wave / Wacom

[Ola Haldor voll]

I find that weird. Being almost three times the CUDA cores compared to the GTX580.

Looking forward to see the 4GB version show up. Then I’m ordering asap.

[Margus Voll]

i also think i would be fast even if some tests were not happy.

in the end it really depends how software is using it.

By mathematics it should burn hole in the paper on cuda numbers.
Imagine triple the amount. Mac’s internal data lane would limit probably 😉

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Ryan Snook]

Can we slap this PCIe 3.0 card in a PCIe 2.0 slot and just get a peaked performance or will everything just explode?

[Juan Salvo]

I’ve ordered one to test. Yes pcie3.0 is backward compatible with pcie2.0 but I don’t know if nvidia drivers will support 680 in Mac. Will let you know.

[Colin Travers]

https://www.techpowerup.com/162901/Did-NVIDIA-Originally-Intend-to-Call-GTX-680-as-GTX-670-Ti-.html

DaVinci 8.2 OSX 10.6.8
MacPro 12-core 5,1 2.66 Ghz
32GB RAM
RAID0 8TB Internal
Nvidia GT120/GTX470
BMD Extreme3D
HDlink3D DisplayPort
Dreamcolor/Panny VT25
Tangent Wave / Wacom

[Joseph Mastantuono]

Really curious about this, as the power draw is 195W, which is great for non-cubix setup, where the amount of cards start to tax the mac pro power supply.

Comparing it to the the GTX 285, 205W & 240 Cuda cores, The GTX 680 is 195W & 1536 Cuda cores.

I’m very curious, but this might look like the new base card, (one that would slide in very nicely in the PC box I’ve slowly been build as well…).

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting