NVIDIA Announces GK104 Based Tesla K10, GK110 Based Tesla K20

[zombie67]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5840/gtc-2012-part-1-nvidia-announces-gk104-based-tesla-k10-gk110-based-tesla-k20

So the K10 is basically a rebadged 690. And the GK110, which is what I was waiting for, won't be available until Q4 sometime.

Looks like it's time to stop waiting and get either a 690 or a 7970. When is the dual 7970 due to be announced again?

[DrPop]

I thought rumors were 7990 at the end of this month, Z, but I don't know how many "good" chips they're getting out of the foundries yet. They cherry-pick the best out of all of them for the dual cards, to keep the electron leakage and temps as low as possible...

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[Mike029]

I thought rumors were 7990 at the end of this month, Z, but I don't know how many "good" chips they're getting out of the foundries yet. They cherry-pick the best out of all of them for the dual cards, to keep the electron leakage and temps as low as possible...

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I'm getting tired of waiting myself. Our Rac has been pretty bad the last few weeks. :( I know we've been on a challenge but other teams seem to keep pushing their rac up. Time to keep up. :) I'll wait till the end of the month then pull the trigger. Really wanted the 7990 if it was going to be cheaper than two 7970's. As well, we shall see. %%-

[John P. Myers]

AMD will hold off with the launch of HD 7990 and leave the official announcement for the Computex 2012 show on June 5th. The only + side to this is since they already have them ready, they can stockpile quantities to keep all the retailers from being sold out within 10 minutes.

[DrPop]

Thanks for the inside scoop, JPM! Good news is, that's only about a week delay from the rumors we were hearing.:o

@Z and Mike - do you guys think you can wait 3 weeks to see the price / performance ratio?

[zombie67]

My dilemma is not purely performance. I am not a gamer. The GPUs I buy are crunchers. So while it may be obvious that the 7970 beats the 680, I also have to consider projects. nvidia has a broader range of choices. AMD has a generally higher paying list of projects, but fewer options. Eventually, opencl will make the choice of projects moot. And CPUs like ivy bridge will also participate in "gpu" projects.

[DrPop]

That makes sense, for sure - I understand your point. From a performance perspective, then - may as well stick with the GTX 590 dual GPU as the top nVidia Cruncher then...or 2 GTX 570s is a nice price point these days. I mean, the GTX 680 and 690 bring no added crunching power - in fact less in some cases - for more money.

I do think as you said, the gap in projects is narrowing, though. I quick look in our projects forum shows a lot of both ATI/AMD and nVidia projects - I don't really think one has such a big edge on the other these days. I know you're not into credits that much, but when you consider a 7970 gets 1Mil+ per day at DiRT..the 7990 dual GPU card is going to be monster! :-o:)

[Mike029]

Thanks for the inside scoop, JPM! Good news is, that's only about a week delay from the rumors we were hearing.:o

@Z and Mike - do you guys think you can wait 3 weeks to see the price / performance ratio?

Yeah, I can wait. Let's me save up some more money. It really comes down to price / performance. I hope that they don't announce a 3rd or 4th quarter release date for the 7990. More like End of June beginning of July is fine.

[EmSti]

Yeah, I can wait. Let's me save up some more money. It really comes down to price / performance. I hope that they don't announce a 3rd or 4th quarter release date for the 7990. More like End of June beginning of July is fine.

If you can actually find one to buy. :-??