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Post by Dan @ 04:11pm 02/05/12 | 26 Comments
 For those that didn't catch the live-stream on the weekend, Nvidia has now released video footage from the event, which among all of the expected marketing hyperbole, features an appearance from Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli giving a new CryEngine 3 technology demo to show off what the extra power affords them -- claiming to be able to achieve a fidelity previously only seen in CG animations in real-time. The 30 minute presentation also features some gameplay from the Unreal Development Kit powered mech combat game Hawken and you can watch it in its entirety embedded below or here in our video library. Due to hit retail outlets on May 3rd 2012 and boasting 3072 CUDA parallel processing cores, chromium-plated aluminum body with a magnesium alloy fan housing and nickel-plated fins it all sounds rather opulent, with a US$999 price tag to match (we're not sure on local price point just yet, but graphics cards don't generally get marked up as steeply in Australia as other IT products). 
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Posted 04:21pm 02/5/12
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Posted 05:19pm 02/5/12
it costs less than two high end cards, yet has equal or greater performance
and you'll be unlikely to need an upgrade for 4 - 6 years, during which you'll be able to play all the games on highest detail settings anyway
Posted 05:24pm 02/5/12
Posted 05:32pm 02/5/12
Magnesium allow? or alloy?
As I said in the other thread, my 2 570's are so heavy the end with the power connector sags down under their own weight so I've had to prop them up with paddlepop sticks. The last thing we need is all this fancy (and heavy) shrouding on them.
Cards for posers, IMHO.
Posted 05:32pm 02/5/12
However it may also just be a case of catching up to where we should be rather than pushing the limits of what's possible again.
Either way I don't think putting down a large amount of money on a graphics card at the moment is a good move either way. Even cheap cards can handle anything you throw at them at 1080p resolutions and by the time anything comes out that will even test this card it'd be out performed by a new low end card that costs a quarter of the price.
Posted 05:46pm 02/5/12
Posted 05:53pm 02/5/12
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Rubbish.
The reason is because most games are developed with consoles in mind. There is little point to spending extra $'s creating graphical content when 3/4's of your user base will never see it due to current Gen console graphical limitations.
When the next gen consoles are released is when we will see a significant upgrade to graphics for non-PC only games.
Posted 06:06pm 02/5/12
No it's about market maximisation.
Posted 07:44pm 02/5/12
Not that this card won't be awesome, it's just a shitty gaming investment for the cost. You think about this card when you already have the best monitor money can buy, all the SSD's you could ever need and the smallest penis on the planet.
Posted 07:46pm 02/5/12
Posted 07:53pm 02/5/12
If they didn't have a small penis, they wouldn't give a shit.
Posted 08:54pm 02/5/12
Quit bitching about the price, it's the ultimate in luxury/unnecessary/indulgent gaming kit.
If you have the free cash to throw at it, good for you - DO IT!
It's like 680s in SLI but less heat and cheaper.
And the reason graphics aren't as good as they should be is, as many of you have pointed out, consoles. A dude from Crytek came out over a year ago saying if PCs had the market share consoles do we'd be seeing ILM quality visuals in games within five years. He's right.
Consoles max out at 512mb of VRAM, therefore that's what people develop for! Whatever GFX card you had in 2004? That's what is developed for, because that's what holds the market share.
Posted 02:02am 04/5/12
Its just simple maths they just wont end up selling enough copies if the requirements of games are so high, because guess what not as many people have the specifications on their computer.
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Posted 02:16pm 04/5/12
There's also people who are rocking the 3 screens too. They need some amazing graphics power to rock that res with detail.
Posted 12:23pm 09/5/12
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1385&products_id=20169
Posted 12:28pm 09/5/12
Posted 01:31pm 09/5/12
Posted 01:57pm 09/5/12
Especially just for one single piece of hardware.
It does sound enticing, however this card I will probably never obtain!
I am still lurving my gt240 haha
Posted 02:19pm 09/5/12
Posted 02:35pm 14/5/12
NVIDIA GTX690
Asus GTX 690 PCI-E 3.0 4GB 512-bit DDR5, Base:915 boost:1019/6008 MHz, DVI-I x 2, DVI-D x 1, Mi PreorderETA $1720.00 $1771.60
Gigabyte GF GTX 690 PCI-E 3.0 4GB 512-bit DDR5, Base:915 boost:1019/6008 MHz, DVI-I x 2, DVI-D Instock $1699.00 $1749.97
Posted 02:37pm 14/5/12
Posted 02:45pm 14/5/12
$1700, chuckle.