Hi everyone,
It has been a rather busy and eventful past few days. Finalizing apartments, deciding on what all to get rid off and what all to take to the new place. I wish it was easier than this!
Today I thought it the perfect opportunity to introduce to you the Nvidia GeForce 6 series Video Cards.
Every two years, Nvidia sets out to design a new GPU architecture. The last architecture released was the Fermi architecture which brought full geometry processing (which enables the use of tessellation.) It improves the realism of water, terrain and characters. Fermi also improved the GPU's performance in general computation. The drawback though was that Fermi consumed more power than desired.
The newest architecture is called Kepler. It is Nvidia's fastest GPU offering and also the most power efficient. This was achieved by a complete redesign of the streaming multiprocessor and by adding a new feature called GPU Boost that increases the clock speed dynamically. An obvious difference you will note is that previously, you needed a 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI-E power connector, you now only need two 6-pin power connectors. To give you an example, the GTX 580 would draw 244 watts whereas the new GTX 680 draws 195 Watts. Also GPU Boost automatically adjusts the clock speed based on the application currently running.
The Kepler architecture also introduces two new Anti-Aliasing techniques. To learn more about Anti-Aliasing please click here. They are FXAA and TXAA.
FXAA in contrast to MSAA (Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing) picks out the edges in a frame based on contrast
detection. It then smoothes out the Aliased edges based on their gradient. This technique reduces work done by the GPU and requires no additional memory unlike MSAA.
TXAA is a new AA mode which is designed for direct integration into game engines. Used where games require the absolute best quality possible without sacrificing any performance. TXAA has two modes namely TXAA 1 and TXAA 2. TXAA 1 will offer visual quality like 8xMSAA with the performance similar to 2xMSAA. TXAA 2 will offer beyond 8xMSAA quality with 4xMSAA performance.
The games, engines and developers that are going to offer TXAA support are MechWarrior Online, Secret World, Eve Online, Borderlands 2, Unreal Engine 4, BitSquid, Slant Six Games, and Crytek (I have gathered this information from this link here.)
If you follow my blog, you know that I absolutely love to have multiple displays. My ideal was 3 monitors but now it has changed to a new setup I recently saw which has four monitors. The most exciting thing is that the new Nvidia GPUs offer more display support on a single card then before. Before it would take two Nvidia cards to support three monitors. Now you can use a single card to power four monitors.
So which cards should you consider to avail these exciting offerings? Well let's take a look at some of my favorite cards to consider.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-670)
EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW
Core Clock : 1006 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1084 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1344
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 10in x 4.38in
A must have for anyone looking for awesome power and price, The EVGA FTW offering has been overclocked to 1006 Mhz. SLi capable and selling for US $419.99.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-680)
ASUS GTX680-DC2O-2GD5
Core Clock : 1019 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1084 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1536
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 11.8in x 5.1in x 2.3in
An all new DirectCU thermal design offers a 20% bigger heat dissipation area, 20% cooler and 14dB quieter performance. SLi capable and selling for US$ 529.99.
If you want water cooling go for
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Hyrdo Copper
Core Clock : 1150 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1215 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1536
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 10in x 5.5in
Price US$ 699.99
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690)
Uses the power of Two Kepler GPUs. Quite simply the fastest card ever built.
EVGA GeForce GTX 690 Signature
Core Clock : 915 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1019 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 3072 (o.O)
Memory : 4GB 512-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 11in x 4.38in
The best card you can get right now and the price to match. If you can afford this card, befriend me so I can look at it, you can look smug, and I can hate you! Just kidding (Or am I..?) Selling for US$ 1,049.99.
That is the newest offerings from Nvidia folks. Pretty soon I will be reviewing AMDs newest offerings and after that we can get down to building some outrageous builds with them.
Until then,
Kiyoshi Out!
Psst... Hey... Spread the word! +1, Subscribe,Tweet ^_^ Thank you for reading.
It has been a rather busy and eventful past few days. Finalizing apartments, deciding on what all to get rid off and what all to take to the new place. I wish it was easier than this!
Today I thought it the perfect opportunity to introduce to you the Nvidia GeForce 6 series Video Cards.
Every two years, Nvidia sets out to design a new GPU architecture. The last architecture released was the Fermi architecture which brought full geometry processing (which enables the use of tessellation.) It improves the realism of water, terrain and characters. Fermi also improved the GPU's performance in general computation. The drawback though was that Fermi consumed more power than desired.
The newest architecture is called Kepler. It is Nvidia's fastest GPU offering and also the most power efficient. This was achieved by a complete redesign of the streaming multiprocessor and by adding a new feature called GPU Boost that increases the clock speed dynamically. An obvious difference you will note is that previously, you needed a 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI-E power connector, you now only need two 6-pin power connectors. To give you an example, the GTX 580 would draw 244 watts whereas the new GTX 680 draws 195 Watts. Also GPU Boost automatically adjusts the clock speed based on the application currently running.
The Kepler architecture also introduces two new Anti-Aliasing techniques. To learn more about Anti-Aliasing please click here. They are FXAA and TXAA.
FXAA in contrast to MSAA (Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing) picks out the edges in a frame based on contrast
detection. It then smoothes out the Aliased edges based on their gradient. This technique reduces work done by the GPU and requires no additional memory unlike MSAA.
TXAA is a new AA mode which is designed for direct integration into game engines. Used where games require the absolute best quality possible without sacrificing any performance. TXAA has two modes namely TXAA 1 and TXAA 2. TXAA 1 will offer visual quality like 8xMSAA with the performance similar to 2xMSAA. TXAA 2 will offer beyond 8xMSAA quality with 4xMSAA performance.
The games, engines and developers that are going to offer TXAA support are MechWarrior Online, Secret World, Eve Online, Borderlands 2, Unreal Engine 4, BitSquid, Slant Six Games, and Crytek (I have gathered this information from this link here.)
If you follow my blog, you know that I absolutely love to have multiple displays. My ideal was 3 monitors but now it has changed to a new setup I recently saw which has four monitors. The most exciting thing is that the new Nvidia GPUs offer more display support on a single card then before. Before it would take two Nvidia cards to support three monitors. Now you can use a single card to power four monitors.
So which cards should you consider to avail these exciting offerings? Well let's take a look at some of my favorite cards to consider.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-670)
EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW
Core Clock : 1006 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1084 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1344
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 10in x 4.38in
A must have for anyone looking for awesome power and price, The EVGA FTW offering has been overclocked to 1006 Mhz. SLi capable and selling for US $419.99.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-680)
ASUS GTX680-DC2O-2GD5
Core Clock : 1019 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1084 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1536
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 11.8in x 5.1in x 2.3in
An all new DirectCU thermal design offers a 20% bigger heat dissipation area, 20% cooler and 14dB quieter performance. SLi capable and selling for US$ 529.99.
If you want water cooling go for
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Hyrdo Copper
Core Clock : 1150 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1215 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 1536
Memory : 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 10in x 5.5in
Price US$ 699.99
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 (http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690)
Uses the power of Two Kepler GPUs. Quite simply the fastest card ever built.
EVGA GeForce GTX 690 Signature
Core Clock : 915 Mhz
Boost Clock : 1019 Mhz
CUDA Cores : 3072 (o.O)
Memory : 4GB 512-bit GDDR5
Dimensions : 11in x 4.38in
The best card you can get right now and the price to match. If you can afford this card, befriend me so I can look at it, you can look smug, and I can hate you! Just kidding (Or am I..?) Selling for US$ 1,049.99.
That is the newest offerings from Nvidia folks. Pretty soon I will be reviewing AMDs newest offerings and after that we can get down to building some outrageous builds with them.
Until then,
Kiyoshi Out!
Psst... Hey... Spread the word! +1, Subscribe,Tweet ^_^ Thank you for reading.
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