The only problem with the 680 is the surprisingly poor compute performance. It's better than the 7970 in every other way.
This entire situation is so weird.
-AMD comes out with HD5000, vliw5 based, very efficient (power/performance/size efficiency) and excellent gaming performance but poor compute performance
-Nvidia comes out with fermi, superscalar, innefficient but good compute performance (vliw is bad for compute applications, superscalar trades efficiency for better performance reliability)
-AMD comes out with HD6000, moves to vliw4, boost efficiency further
-AMD comes out with graphics core next (HD7000), superscalar, trades some efficiency for compute performance
-Nvidia comes out with kepler, vliw based, trades compute performance to get more efficiency
They've traded places now. Now nvidia is using vliw and AMD is using superscalar, last gen AMD was using vliw and nvidia was using a superscalar design.
This entire situation is so weird.
-AMD comes out with HD5000, vliw5 based, very efficient (power/performance/size efficiency) and excellent gaming performance but poor compute performance
-Nvidia comes out with fermi, superscalar, innefficient but good compute performance (vliw is bad for compute applications, superscalar trades efficiency for better performance reliability)
-AMD comes out with HD6000, moves to vliw4, boost efficiency further
-AMD comes out with graphics core next (HD7000), superscalar, trades some efficiency for compute performance
-Nvidia comes out with kepler, vliw based, trades compute performance to get more efficiency
They've traded places now. Now nvidia is using vliw and AMD is using superscalar, last gen AMD was using vliw and nvidia was using a superscalar design.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony