Taiwanese company MSI has officially presented the Graphics card GeForce GTX 680 Lightning , based on the base of GPU NVIDIA GK104, executed at rates 28-nanometer manufacturing process. Our acquaintance with this graphics card was the first time during Computex 2012.
Overall dimensions of a MSI Graphics Cards GeForce GTX 680 Lightning is 270 x 129 x 38.75 mm. It features new dual-slot cooling system Twin Frozr IV, as the video card R7970 Lightning , and uses in the construction of high-quality printed circuit board components Military Class III (Tantalum Capacitors Hi-c CAP, solid capacitors with nickel-plated Dark Solid CAP and plated with ferrite core chokes Golden SSC .)
The design of MSI Graphics Cards GeForce GTX 680 Lightning provides for graphics module power stabilization of the core GPU Reactor, 1536 cores CUDA, 256-bit bus and 2 GB of video memory GDDR5.
Cooling System Twin Frozr IV includes five copper heat pipes, massive radiator, two 100-mm fan Propeller Blade, metal cover, and front and rear plates to dissipate heat and eliminate the possibility of a fracture of the PCB. According to MSI, cooler Twin Frozr IV under the force to reduce the temperature another 16 degrees Celsius lower than the maximum capabilities of the standard model, working with a 6.7 dB quieter.
The power system of MSI Graphics Cards GeForce GTX 680 Lightning is based on the video circuit 8 3 1 phase.
Core clock speed GPU graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning is 1110 MHz, high - 1176 MHz. Working memory frequency remained the same and amounts to 1502 MHz (effective - 6008 MHz). The package includes software for overclocking MSI Afterburner.Among the overclocking features worth mentioning contacts to measure the stress 3x3 OC Kits and technology support Triple Overvoltage, developed by MSI to increase overclocking potential.
Available connectors are Dual-Link DVI-I, Dual-Link DVI-D, DisplayPort, HDMI to connect multiple monitors simultaneously. The MSI Graphics Cards GeForce GTX 680 Lightning supports both DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.2, PCI Express 3.0 and Shader Model 5.0, as well as proprietary technologies NVIDIA: stereoscopic image 3D Vision, realistic physics PhysX, parallel computing CUDA, accelerated video decoding PureVideo HD and the combination of multi-GPU SLI.The cost of MSI Graphics Cards GeForce GTX 680 Lightning is about $ 540.