This makes it technically good value versus the standard card, but we are talking very expensive components here in the first place. The GTX 680 standard and TOP cards’ street prices at the three online stores we looked were an average of $721 and $783 respectively, so the TOP is around 8.5 per cent more expensive. In all benchmarks the ASUS GTX 680 TOP has around 10 per cent better performance than its standard variant. With Crysis 2 as a comparison between these two GTX 680 variants and the Radeon HD 7870, you can see that moving to a high-end card like the GTX 680 offers a big performance boost of around 50 per cent, albeit at a price premium that’s nearly twice the price of the 7870. We tested the ASUS GTX 680 TOP against a reference Nvidia GTX 680 in three applications: Metro 2033, Battlefield 3, and Crysis 2. This is around 13 per cent faster than a standard GTX 680. Its GPU clock is 1137MHz, boosting to 1201MHz.
#NVIDIA GTX 680 REFERENCE CARD FULL#
2GB of GDDR5 RAM, Nvidia’s latest 28nm ‘Kepler’ GK104 GPU, 1536 CUDA cores, a GPU clock of 1006MHz (boosted to 1058MHz during full power 3D), 6008MHz memory clock - for anyone that actually understands them, these figures mean serious graphics performance and excellent 3D quality at high resolutions.īut that’s not all since this ASUS card is factory-overclocked, it gets an extra speed boost over the standard GTX 680 specs. The reference Geforce GTX 680’s specifications set it comfortably as the most powerful single-GPU graphics card on the market.
#NVIDIA GTX 680 REFERENCE CARD PC#
You’ll need a PC power supply with a minimum output of 550 Watts to run this card.ĪSUS Geforce GTX 680 TOP DirectCU II: Specifications and performance A dual-link DVI-D port, a second dual-link DVI-I port, HDMI and DisplayPort mean that there’s plenty of options to connect a digital display like a LCD monitor or TV.
The ASUS Geforce GTX 680 TOP DirectCU II has a set of connectors that’s relatively standard for a modern video card. The backplate gets warm while the card is in use, but this is an indication that it’s doing a good job of dissipating heat from hot-spots on the PCB. It’s one of the most solid graphics cards that we have handled, with the chunky DirectCU II cooler joined by an aluminium backplate that runs along the entire length of the card’s circuit board. The build quality of the ASUS Geforce GTX 680 TOP DirectCU II is excellent. In our test PC, there was plenty of room for the GTX 680 TOP, but if you’re using a smaller PC case or shorter motherboard and have any aspirations towards using a dual-card setup, abandon them now - or at least buy your graphics cards from a store that will take them back if they don’t fit. With heatpipes, aluminium fin cooler and twin fans, the cooler takes up a whole three card slots on your PC’s motherboard and case. The DirectCU II cooler bolted onto this ASUS Geforce GTX 680 TOP variant is longer than the PCB by a few centimetres, but more imporant is how thick the cooler is. Previous top-of-the-line cards have been very long - we’re looking at you, Radeon HD 4870X2 - but the PCB of the GTX 680 is no bigger than the mid-range AMD Radeon HD 7870.
The Geforce GTX 680 card design isn’t as big as we were expecting.
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