I'm looking at building a new desktop very soon with a gtx 680 in it and I saw that nvidia was going to be comming out with a new generation soon. Is it worth waiting for the next generation and will the cards be very expensive when they firsst come out? Should I just get the desktop with the gtx 680 now?
when the new cards come out the current generation will drop in price, and if nvidia does anything like its last 2 generations it will be a minor performance increase but will be lower wattage and heat
i would advise against getting the 680 at all though, and get the 7970 instead
Thankyou and sorry I worded my question above a bit poorly. With the price I was wondering will the price of the new generation be very expensive when they first come out. For example; will the 780 be the same price as the 680 is now?
it will probably be a bit more expensive than the 680 is now
but i would get the 680 when the 7 series cards come out since the price will drop and there wont be much of a performance difference
ok thankyou and this would be the same case for ATI cards right?
yes, AMD not ATI though
I just had a look around and I couldnt find any release dates for the new cards so would you say it would be better to get one of the current models, whether it be AMD or Nvidia now because right now I have a laptop with a 445M and its starting to struggle with the games that I am playing.
I would advise waiting a little longer if you can, because the cards are rumored to be coming out sometime during either the first or second quarter of 2013, which means they can hit the market anytime between now and June. The same time table is true for AMD's new cards.
I can already tell you the prices of Nvidia's new cards because they don't change much from generation to generation.
GTX 790: $1000 or more
GTX 780: $500
GTX 770: $400
GTX 760 TI: $300
AMD's respective cards will probably have similar prices, but they usually end up dropping in price pretty significantly after they figure out how Nvidia's cards stack up against their own.
would a good idea be to get one of the current generations now and when the new ones come out and the old ones start to drop in price get another one of the old ones ans sli it? and whith the new archetecture is it a considerable improvement from what is out now?
There are rumours that Nvidia might not release high-end 700 series GPUs, due to the lack of competition from AMD, and that Kepler v2.0 might overlap the release of Maxwells performance. Don't know if it's true tho.
either post a source or stop spamming your retarded nvidia fanboyism
That won't be true. Nvidias cards stock are like maybe 5% faster after the recent drivers but there like 10-20% more expensive for the competitive card. In my books there behind right now, so they need to work done magic on the next release.
Excuse me?
As for the "source"; the thread that contained the information has been removed from the forum due to 30-days of inactivity. It's probably just another dead rumour.
Let us just stick to the Kepler v2.0 release in March 2013. That is what everyone is talking about.
EDIT: ^ that sentence.
A lot of sites that I have looked at are talking about Maxwell being released in 2014. Has there been a change from this as you said March 2013?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce#Generations
http://vr-zone.com/articles/no-nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-before-march-2013-maxwell-only-in-2014-/17073.html
http://www.hardcore-games.tk/wp/nvidia-speculation.php
If this is so I will be getting one of the current series.
I guess I should have clarified the question. Are you waiting for the next arcitecture or the next set of GPU's? Because the 700 series will be a more powerful, and better built 600 series. Just like 500 series was after the 400 series. The next arcitecture wont be released until next year. That is correct.
ok sorry I didn't know that was how they were doing it. Yes I was meaning the next archetecture. So I wont wait for the next archetecture to come out then because i need to build this now.
Thanks for the help everyone.
Ninja edit. I was talking about Kepler v2.0 and not Maxwell :)
haha nice one :P
Theres plenty of "competition" In fact in more than half the benchmarks the 7970 Defeats the 680....
Not true; In SOME benchmarks which is mostly DX9.0c, DX10 and DX10.1 games. GTX680 is still faster in nearly every DX11 benchmark. Is it worth the extra money? You decide. It's not my build.
I remember GeForce GTX 680, 670, 660Ti had a major advantage over AMD Radeon due to better drivers, but AMD seem to have fixed the issues. The rumour might have popped up during that time because the HD7970 was "a bad performer". It was also before AMDs price drop.
OK, forget my first post, it's a dead rumour. Sorry for bringing it up.