will GeForce GTX 680MX be any good?

[Rick Lang]

[Margus Voll] “so we could speculate at least quadro 4000 performance for home users?”

Difficult to know until we see what it includes (still doesn’t exist on NVIDIA’s public web pages). Assuming the 608MX is better than the 680M, then we are comparing devices with at least 1344 CUDA cores tp 256 cores on the Quadro 4000. 680M bandwidth is 115 GB/s versus 4000’s 90 GB/s. 680M OpenGL version is 4.1; 4000 supports 4.3! No idea what Shader Model is on the 680M. NVIDIA’s web site is very strange, constant apples to oranges hyperbole so you supposedly get caught up in the enthusiastic claims for each product but impossible to compare between product families. And then there’s the reality of what Apple does to get the GPU into their iMac which may not reflect 100% of what NVIDI offers for a given product.

Best to wait a couple of months and Bare Feats will likely have it benchmarked!

Updated: Please look at this thread as the specs have been posted by NVIDIA today:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/364/1184

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Margus Voll]

yes i agree we have to wait and see how it will perform in real life.

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Margus

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