This joke doesn't work with this card though. It's a smaller chip than the 7970, runs cooler, more power effecient, while performing better.
Nvidia seriously changed things up in the architecture.
That's not really why. All indications show that this card should do general computing MUCH faster than a 580. But for some reason OpenCL and DirectCompute are being severally capped on this card. Read Anandtech's breakdown of the architecture.
Yeah, there are rumors that Nvidia has either capped the general computer performance on these cards, to sell Quadro's instead, or that the current drivers don't have proper OpenCL and DirectCompute for this new architecture.
In game performance this card is beating the 7970 almost all the time, sometimes in quite large leads. And in rare cases even beating dual 580's and 7970's.
The heat output of this series of Nvidia GPU is lower than the ATI counterparts. Fairly lower. I know, surprising, but it's the truth.
@SilentN: Firstly, you're reading too much into his comment. Secondly, it's well known that compared to say Canada or Europe, the USA is a lot less Liberal, and a lot more paranoid about things. It doesn't matter what happened back in the cold war. Countries have changed a hell of a lot since then. One only needs to watch American news and TV to see the kind of ridiculous paranoia that goes on in that country.
Is there a sudden spike in your used upload bandwidth? No? Stop being paranoid. Is your Xbox even on? No? Stop being paranoid. Is your Xbox on? Yes? Stop being paranoid.
Cheaters exist for the same reason that many serious trolls do. Some people just take joy in seeing others get mad about what they are doing. It's sad and unfortunate.
Unlikely. It only supposedly cost 1.2m for this specific developer. Crytek and Epic will usually do a consultation with you, and assess how much the licensing fee should be for your project. Whether it's a AAA blockbuster game, or just some small indie game that's not going to make massive profit.
No it's not. Just because you can download UDK and work with stuff in it, doesn't make it free. You can download CE3 for free as well and develop in it without paying.
What costs money is to be allowed to PUBLISH a game that has been made with it. You have to pay a licensing fee to EPIC, to use they engine in a commercial game, same goes with CE3.
@hiredhelp:
Reports are saying this card can easily OC to 1.4Ghz. It's a smaller, cooler, more power efficient chip, so it most definitely will overclock better.
Actually yes, since the day it came out. Because:
1.) It uses a GPU that is lower mid-range of the series it came from.
2.) That series of GPU was already a year old.
And there were faster CPU's on the market already of course, if you wanted to pay the price.
@CoD511: That's not how chip manufacturing works. A few months is no time to make changes to the design that would allow them to gain more performance.
These designs are being planned YEARS in advance. With the architecture being pretty much locked down around this time LAST year. The rest of the time is spent doing test runs, finding issues with the fabrication and any bugs in the architecture.
So saying a few months matters, is silly. Nvidia has mainly ...
Why? The chip is roughly 30mm squared smaller than the 7870's. And is being positioned as it's competitor. So it shouldn't be too bad.
When you take into account this is only the mid-range version of the chip, it definitely "blows away". Normally we'd see charts like this from Nvidia's highest end chip against ATI's highest. With Nvidia's chip also being fairly larger and more power consuming.
But it's the complete opposite this time, mid-range card and STILL beating ATI's highest in all respects.
This chip has 1536 cores, that's exactly 3x a GTX580'...
You havn't read much about the 6xx series then have you. Normally that's correct, but Nvidia has completely changed up their architecture this round.
This chip is SMALLER than a 7970, it uses less watts, and it performs better. It beats ATI in every respect this time. And since it's about 30mm squared smaller, it's cheaper for them to produce, so the prices should be similar. And this is only Nvidia's mid-range version of this architecture haha.
Not really cherry pick, more like, "have more money to spend on R&D". Vastly more. Intel has its own fabrication plants for F's sake. While AMD has to use third party ones. And Nvidia has massive dedicated server clusters for prototyping and designing architectures.
And your point is? The bus width only has a tiny bit to do with a GPU's performance. The clocks and architecture are what matter most.
And that's only required to do for the Win 8 Consumer Preview. Microsoft removed the ability to normally disable the Metro interface, so that people are forced to actually.. ya'know.. TEST the new software. As they know most PC users are going to disable it, since it's mainly meant for tablets and touch screen-puters.
In the official release, there will be a setting to disable it.
I don't even drop a single FPS in Ultra preset in Skyrim when enabled XD
People aren't saying the game itself is bad. People are only complaining about the VERY END. That is why they are still playing it, because while they despise the end, the game itself is still good, with a lot of varied content on different playthroughs.