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zarx said:

I was hoping that given the focus on effeciency Nvida would do another Kepler launch where the 680 used less power, performed better and launched at the same price as the 580. However it seems like they have bumped up the price and are pricing it against the 780 Ti instead of the 780. Which will probably mean the lower tier cards will follow suite, meaning the 870 will no doubt be pushed way out of my price range.

Yeah, I was too hoping that power would go down aswell, but given the nº of transistors it will have (according to that rumor, let's not forget that), I see why it is what it is. After all, and using the numbers from the Anandtech's review, the 680 had 3.5B transistors and was rated at 195W, compared to the 3B transistors and 244W of the 580, but that 880 will have 7.9B! That's more than twice.

Given that it has more transistors, it is clocked higher and has more memory that also runs faster than a 780Ti, it is impressive that it uses 20W less power.

 

As for the 870... well maybe we (I need an upgrade too) will be able to grab a 780/780Ti for cheap as everybody will jump to the newer cards. That or go AMD...