Review: ASUS GeForce GTX 680
Published by Marc Büchel on 22.03.12Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| What should I say. I mean the GeForce GTX 680 leaves the AMD high-end Radeon HD 7970 in a cloud of dust. This is especially remarkable if we consider that the GeForce GTX 680 also needs less power than the AMD card. With their 1536 CUDA cores NVIDA seems to have a really big advantage over their competition. Generally it is just astonishing how easy the GeForce GTX 680 leaves the Radeon HD 7970 behind. |
- 2D silent
- Noise Level in 3D mode - Power Consumption |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Regarding Performance one can see that the GeForce GTX 680 is quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7970. Especially in 3D Mark 11 we see that the GTX 680 is able to create quite a big gap to the competitor. What is also very impressive is the efficiency of this card. If you keep in mind that the GTX 680 needs less power at higher overall frame rates then you see how good this GK104 chip really is. Another very positive side effect of the lower overall dissipation power is the noise level which in 2D modes is unhearable. In a closed case you can start hearing the fan somewhere between 40 and 50 percent rotation speed. | - Singl GPU Performance King | ||
| Overclocking | + | - | |
| Also when it comes to overclocking the GTX 680 is a lot of fun. Quite easily it's been possible to overclock the card to 1'200 MHz on the GPU and 6'600 on the memory. |
- Overclocking GPU 1'200 MHz / Mem 6'600 MHz |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| The recommendation for this card is quite simple: if you want the fastest, discrete graphics card, no matter what it costs, then there is no other choice than the GeForce GTX 680. | - High-End Gaming - Overclocking | ||
| The ASUS GeForce GTX 680 gets very good five out of five stars. | |||
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