Skip to 6 minutes. Seems legit to me. :smile:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fC4rlR1_EfY#t=360s

Those guys are funny! Anyway, it sure looks like the GTX680 is going to be extremely powerful, being roughly a third faster in benchmarking. Impressive!

I am a little skeptical with those guys using benchmarks created by a Chinese site. Especially when all you get are the bar graphs and not the actual screens from testing. The 3dMark11 scores for the AMD card also appear low since a stock 7970 should be putting up numbers around 8000 combined and 7600 GPU during performance runs. I am going to wait until the card is in the hands of actual review sites since there are numbers on both sides of the spectrum. I do think pricing will be the biggest disappointment in the 680.

I am a little skeptical with those guys using benchmarks created by a Chinese site. Especially when all you get are the bar graphs and not the actual screens from testing. The 3dMark11 scores for the AMD card also appear low since a stock 7970 should be putting up numbers around 8000 combined and 7600 GPU during performance runs. I am going to wait until the card is in the hands of actual review sites since there are numbers on both sides of the spectrum. I do think pricing will be the biggest disappointment in the 680.

The GTX660 seems like the best bang for buck. Around 320bucks and gives the performance of a GTX580... :Big Grin: *hopefully

The GTX660 seems like the best bang for buck. Around 320bucks and gives the performance of a GTX580... :Big Grin: *hopefully

I wouldn't hold your breath on that pricing/performance since the rumors/news on the 660, I believe relabeled as the GTX 670 Ti, are slim to none. There have been zero benches showing it near the GTX580 and as of now it is only rumors. Looks like NV is pushing for the GTX680 and many benches from today (overclock.net) are showing it on par with the 7970 which is a disappointment if they are indeed true. If the cards perform on par with their AMD counterpart (670ti vs 7950 / 680 vs 7970) I would expect pricing to be similar. Then again hopefully I am wrong and the 670ti is fast, cool and cheap.

If what you are saying is true, then I might end up with a 580 in my system. They are only 380 bucks on Newegg!

The big question is. Will the GTX 680 perform better in FSX? Cuz what I do know, is that the GTX 560Ti performs EXACTLY the same in FSX as the GTX 580. Believe me, I have both. Unfortunately I've bought my 580 for 440 euros, and the day right after it the price dropped to only 380! :@ So, luckily I managed to get my money back. So now the question is, get a GTX 580 for 380 euros or wait for the GTX 680? To be honest, I don't expect to perform better in FSX compared to the GTX 580. Since the GTX 460, video card performance in FSX almost hasn't changed at all.When a new simulator gets released, maybe I can just put a second 580 in SLI. I think the 580 SLI won't be a bottleneck for at least the next 3 years, knowing that the graphics in games can't improve much more from how they are now.

If what you are saying is true, then I might end up with a 580 in my system.They are only 380 bucks on Newegg!

Kyle from HardOCP has stated the Kepler boards will have pricing parity with the competition. Same thing has been said on Legit, AnandtechSo expect GTX 680 to be near 7970 pricing and so on. Looks like Tomshardware accidentally placed their review images in a gallery this morning awaiting the hard launch and several guys at OCN copied them. Toms maybe official benchmarks can be found here:http://www.overclock.net/t/1231711/toms-geforce-gtx-680-reviewThe 680 looks really impressive but I doubt it will do much for us. Hardware can't fix bad coding. :Just Kidding:

I keep my fingers crossed that it will be monster GPU for FSX. So I can always reach 60 fps no matter what, and having 0 microstutters.

The 680 looks really impressive but I doubt it will do much for us. Hardware can't fix bad coding. :Just Kidding:

To an extent.... Then it gets to a point to where the hardware finally catches up.I think that a Haswell or Ivy Bridge @ 6GHZ paired with a GTX680 will be the real FSX mean machine.

To an extent.... Then it gets to a point to where the hardware finally catches up.I think that a Haswell or Ivy Bridge @ 6GHZ paired with a GTX680 will be the real FSX mean machine.

If in 5 years hardware hasn't yet caught up it won't. Unfortunately bad coding is bad coding and we have to use what hardware we can to band-aid it. The difference between the 560ti 448 and my GTX580 is negligible IMO and I don't see the GTX680 adding much. We seem to only get a few more frames per generation of cards. DCS A-10 is a prime example of poor coding that was fixed. In beta it would eat high end machines but now it runs very smooth even on a modest rig. What we need is ACES back.Hopefully I am wrong on the GTX680 but for FSX exclusively it seems very expensive for little gain over the now cheap 580.I am excited for IB and hope it brings a good bump in performance. I wonder if Intel will include IB in their tuning plan (OC insurance).