As the battle goes, season after season AMD and Nvidia try and punch each other in the face for the title of Fastest Graphics Card. Currently, the high end is dominated by AMD, and the crown for fastest single GPU card belongs to the Radeon HD 7970. The GeForce GTX 680 plans to pass it up by 10-40%, which is promising a lot.
Also, it’ll include some new technologies like adaptive V-Sync (creamier gaming with less tears, droping V-Sync when under 60 frames and re enabling when over to match the refresh rate of your monitor), TX Anti Aliasing (better jaggies reduction with less of a hit on performance), and a GPU boost feature that measures the temperature of the card in realtime, and boosts the clock speed if the card can take it. That way, preset clock speeds based on temperature readouts on cards can be a thing of a past. Engadget has the full rundown. They also posted a review roundup from various sites. It’s looking pretty sexy.
Finally, expect it to cost a metric shit-ton; if AMD or Nvidia can claim fastest card, they will put a price tag on it to match.
