yeah the min FPS in Unigine is very impressive!!! 
Many thanks for posting man 

im wondering the same thing. 

Minimalism? I don't think so. Minimalism would have no side logo or one in dark grey or something. "GEFORCE GTX" in bright green capitalized bold font is not minimalistic. That alone is what's keeping me from buying a pair of these. I'll stick with my pair of 570s for now. Still going strong after 1 year!
 
GEFORCE GTX
 
 
 

mwparrish
Minimalism.  It's a good thing.  Looks sleek and sharp.

Thank you for doing all the benchmark. It will help us decided if you want the get the 680 or not :) Thanks

BF3

kram36

Awesome results. The 680 rocks. Thanks for doing this.

How was the fan noise and temps?

Can't wait to get my cards. Got my step up paid for today and just have to send in my old cards.

EDIT: I don't think you can fold on these cards yet. Standford has to come out with a new client for them.

 
Yeah, F@H was FAIL.  I didn't think it would work... but never hurts to try and force it to do something.  So we'll be waiting on the new F@H core for that.
 
Oh man, these cards are so quiet.  I never heard the fan at all at the default profile.  When I enabled the default Precision X custom profile... I'd hear them kick in, but they were still far quieter than my Corsair H100 fans next to my head.
 
The current max fan setting is 85% -- I'd presume an unlocker is forthcoming in the weeks ahead based on past precedence.  At 85% they sound like 580s at 85%.
 
Temps were in the low 70s at full load for the default profiles. Nothing major.  When I play BF3 later I'll run it at 100% like I usually do and update you.

Sweet info. Well I'm excited to get my 680's.

I do like that EVGA is now finally putting protective covers over the card's ports (about time).
 
Nice!
 

Cool! BTW don't forget to update your Precision X to the latest one here. The one that shipped on the DVD is a bit older, there are a lot of improvements in the official releasae.

atm743

lol you one up'ed me again fozzy :)  lol. i just got my 680 in the mail. 
hey are you going to be on BF3 tonight? want to know how 2 does. :)   

 
oh yeah, i'll be BF3ing tonight.
 
FYI, I ran in SLI at the default Ultra settings at 1920x1080...
 
Interesting find and I'm not ready to post any screenshots yet... but not using Precision X ran the #1 680 to 101*C and it downclocked.  When I noticed this, I popped out, loaded Precision X, enabled the default fan profile, and everything dropped down to 79*C on the #1 card.
 
The #2 card was fine since it wasn't doing the heavy lifting.
 
Once things cooled down, I also ran BF3 with fan on full (85% presently) and noticed my temps were 69*C and 59*C for #1 and #2 respectively.
 
That's a little more than my 580s at 100% fan at 63*C and 57*C, but it's still good temps.  Just be sure to run things with Precision X!
 
A note about framerates... obviously, it's hard to test framerates in multiplayer but it's how we play the game right?  So on a full 64 person server playing Seinne Crossing, I was netting between 71 at the lowest to 180 maximum.  The average range seemed to be 90-130 fps depending on objects.
 
Now I need to play with FXAA and see how that changes things versus 4xMSAA.  Once I get some data I'm comfortable with, I'll post it in post #2.
 
 

mwparrish

Okay kids, I've updated the 2nd post with the 3DMark11 and Heaven 3.0 benches.  A BIG BIG note, I only OC'd the 680s with a +100 offset.  They have a lot more in them, but I'm not ready to go full tilt yet.  For now, these are just preliminary.

More to come, F@H PPD info next.

What sort of voltage increase did you need for a stable +100 offset

craigcooper

mwparrish

Okay kids, I've updated the 2nd post with the 3DMark11 and Heaven 3.0 benches.  A BIG BIG note, I only OC'd the 680s with a +100 offset.  They have a lot more in them, but I'm not ready to go full tilt yet.  For now, these are just preliminary.

More to come, F@H PPD info next.

What sort of voltage increase did you need for a stable +100 offset

 
Great question, I didn't adjust the core voltage! I just adjusted the power offset from 100% to 120%.  I didn't dive into the particulars yet for these cards. I haven't had much time.
 
I plan to look into it all more this weekend.  I can say this though, they're like a hot knife through butter in games.
 
The 580s in SLI rendered everything smooth, but these are even more fluid and impressive. When my BenQ XL2420TX comes in, I'll really be able to enjoy it at 120Hz and/or 3D Vision 2.

Chemceb

If possible, can you underclock the 680s to match the 950 core at turbo max? I'm interested in the comparison. Thanks.

 
Yeah, I can give that a whirl.  Give me a little time.  Also, you can't disable the Boost so even if I set the offset lower, it'll still auto boost.

EVGA_JacobF

Actually changing the core voltage on 680 doesn't really help much, and the card may actually override it.

Because the voltage automatically increases as the core clock does, so usually you will have enough voltage for your desired offset.

 
Good deal, thanks for clarifying.  This is the behavior I expected and was evidenced by the increase in power draw when overclocked, so I left it alone even though it was there as an option to adjust.
 
I'm excited to fine tune them to see what they can do.  Gonna download Precision X in a bit and see.

Great info here MWparrish, thank you for taking the time to post for people.  It's very appreciated.
 
I got mine a few hours ago, but won't be able to work on it until tomorrow evening....(I know, bummer eh?)  I will be running tests on three monitors if nobody has posted results and configurations (cables needed, ports used etc) by then.
 
Again, thank you.