3/13/2012 08:16:00 PM
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Rumored to launch in a little bit more than a week, Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, based on the Kepler GK104 core, starred in a new series of pictures that show the card in greater detail than before.
The pictures came our way courtesy of Chip Hell, the same Chinese website that uncovered some of the first images of the GTX 680.
At a first look, Nvidia’s reference design for the GeForce GTX 680 doesn’t seem to differ all that much from the previous-generation GTX 570/GTX 580, outside of the stacked PCIe power connectors found at the rear of the card.
The pictures also reveal that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 680 will be compatible with 4-way SLI setups, while the rear video connector configuration includes HDMI, DisplayPort and dual DVI outputs.
No detail regarding the specs of the GTX 680 has been revealed, but previous reports indicate that the GK104 graphics core this is based upon includes 1,536 CUDA cores and a 256-bit memory interface, coupled with either 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1,500MHz (6,000MHz data rate).
With the GK104 GPU, Nvidia is also rumored to introduce a new technology called Dynamic Clock Adjustment.
Apparently, this works similarly to Intel’s Turbo Boost technology to automatically increase the graphics core frequency with 5 to 7 percent when the video card works bellow its rated TDP.
The GTX 680 is said to have a 190W TDP and Heise.de revealed at the end of last week that it should be about 10% faster than the Radeon HD 7970 in Battlefield 3, while in 3DMark 11 it falls behind AMD’s creation.
The GeForce GTX 680 is expected to be launched next week, on March 22, and is rumored to carry a $549 (about 417 EUR) price tag.
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