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Desde el sofá, jugando la demo del "I am alive".
Madmaxismo en estado puro, no apto para piratones peceros.

Otro día será.

Nvidia Hints That Kepler is 3x Faster Than Fermi

03:10 - Tuesday 13 March 2012 by Douglas Perry - source: Nvidia

Nvidia is building up some excitement for its Kepler-based graphics cards just ahead of their anticipated launch.

Nvidia's upcoming Kepler recently ran Epic's Samaritan demo, which was developed to showcase Unreal Engine 3 and the potential video game graphics technology in future video games. This specific demo, which took place last week at GDC, did not employ the usual triple GTX 580 (Fermi) configuration, but ran based on a single Kepler-based graphics chip. It was unclear which Kepler chip was used, but Nvidia's note clearly suggests that we should anticipate Kepler being about three times faster than Fermi, at least in some applications.

"Although no further information on Kepler was given, the demo sent a clear message: the graphics in Samaritan, generally regarded as a glimpse of the gaming industry’s far-off future, will in fact be possible in the near future on PC systems running a single next-generation graphics card," Nvidia wrote. The demo also showed Nvidia's proprietary Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA) technology, which builds on top of Multisample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA), "the form of anti-aliasing most commonly seen in today’s games."

the rumor mill is adding bits and pieces every day. For example, Fudzilla recently reported that the GK104 Kepler chip may be faster than AMD's Radeon HD 7970, which suggests that Nvidia has a shot at gaining the lead in this battle. There are even some early product shots of Kepler cards to keep the early traction for Nvidia going. Of course, rumors will help Nvidia so much. Next month, Nvidia will have to prove whether the early praise was justified or not.

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Pues hasta que no salga la proxima generación de consolas, con una 570 tienes para laaaaargo.

De hecho yo con una 560ti he jugado a tope a prácticamente todos los juegos.

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El asunto es que si las Keplers son tan buenas como parecen, es posible que el avance en tecnología retrase el lanzamiento de la nueva generación de consolas durante 6-9 meses (pone que tres cuatrimestres); pero dichas consolas sean mucho más potentes que lo inicialmente esperado (es decir, al gusto de los desarrolladores de juegos, como he venido comentando a lo largo del hilo). Lo que implicaría que la tecnología de tesselation se volvería stándard durante los próximos 3-4 años, etc. Vamos, más potencia de cálculo y calidad gráfica para todos, al mismo precio, pero como un año más tarde.

La alternativa, si esta teoría que expongo fuera cierta -no olvidemos que estoy especulando, porque no sabemos lo que tienen en mente Sony y Microsoft-, sería sacar las nuevas consolas antes pero con peor hardware, y pasarnos todos (PCeros y consoleros) 6-7 años tecnológicamente "estancados".

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La verdad es que en mis partidas de L4D solíamos ser bastante peores que esto, sobre todo yo...

Nvidia 'Kepler' GeForce GTX 680 Specifications Leaked

07:10 - Thursday 15 March 2012 by Doug Crowthers - source: PCOnline.com.cn

In a leaked Nvidia slide, the final GeForce GTX 680 specifications are revealed and more...

In a leaked slide coming out of the Chinese web-site PCOnline.com.cn, we see an official Nvidia slide listing the GeForce GTX 680 specifications. The GeForce GTX 680 is based on the 28nm Kepler GK104 chip and is said to launch around March 22nd. The GTX 680 features clock speeds of 1006 MHz (base), and 1058 MHz (boost). The memory is clocked at 6 GHz (1500 MHz actual), and 2 GB GDDR5 memory running across a 256-bit wide interface. As we know, the GK104 will feature 1536 Stream Processors, 128 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. As with the AMD Radeon 7000 series cards, the GeForce GTX 680 will be based on a PCIe 3.0 bus interface with support for DX11.1, Quad Way SLI and display outputs of two DL-DVI, a HDMI and Display port 1.2. The card will utilize two 6-pin PCIe power connectors and has a TDP of 195W.


Image Leaked by PCOnline.com.cn

As we saw at the Game Developers Conference, Epic showed the infamous Samaritan Demo running on a single Nvidia's Kepler GPU, which could be the aforementioned GTX 680. Now, we see a slide coming out of NGF community that shows the performance of the GTX 680 versus AMD's top two cards, the HD 7970 and HD 7950. The slide uses the HD 7970 as the baseline for performance comparison. Looking across the board, the GTX 680 outperforms the HD 7970 by roughly 20 percent in the seven games/benchmarks utilized. The one benchmark that stands out the most is the performance increase with Battlefield 3 (4xAA). The GTX 680 shows over a 40 percent performance increase, which could be related to use of Nvidia's FXAA technology.


Image Leaked by NGF community

Back in early March, we saw the first images of the GK104 card thanks to a leak coming from Chinese web-site Chiphell. Today, Chiphell has provided us with other leaked images and this time it is a near-final version of the graphics card. From these images, we see the cards Quad Way SLI support, along with its unique stacked power connector setup.


Image Leaked by ChipHell

Image Leaked by ChipHell

There is no official pricing for the card but early reports has it falling around $500 dollars. Stay tuned for more coming soon!