NVIDIA Dual-GK104 Kepler Card Set for May, 2012

Just as people think NVIDIA was all set to leave everyone slack-jawed, we stumble upon a tidbit of information that may make it hard for them to pick those jaws from the floor. 

If what 3DCenter.org says is true, the Santa Clara, California-based company is getting ready to launch not just a high-end Kepler board, but also a dual-GPU one. 

More precisely, while the company is getting set to introduce the GeForce GTX 680 this month, it also has a dual-GPU model scheduled for May 2012. 

There isn't much info on that monster of a video controller, beyond the name (Geforce GTX 680) and the fact that it, too, will rely on the GK104. 

It definitely seems like NVIDIA is saving the GK100 for later, when Advanced Micro Devices unleashes the successors to the Radeon HD 7000 collection. 

We can only wonder what sort of things that top Kepler GPU will be able to do, not to mention if NVIDIA makes a dual-chip board out of that one as well. 

We don't know what the next-generation GPUs from AMD will be able to do either, but it is sure enough at this point that the Sunnyvale, California IT player will need to seriously overcome the GK104 if it wants to put on a good show on the high-end front. 

That is neither here nor there, though. After all, the GK100 and AMD's rival products won't appear until later this year. 

Right now, we are more focused on the aforementioned GTX 680 and all the info that leaks and rumors were able to uncover, which is most of it. 

We've seen the first pictures of the Kepler add-in card, the time of arrival (March 23), the new GeForce logo and much more. 

We are pretty sure that leaks about the dual-GK104 will somehow reach the web in a similar fashion, so keep an eye out.

Posted in: Hardware, News, Preview