It looks like previous reports are being confirmed about the former's superiority

Mar 17, 2012 09:23 GMT  ·  By

We were cautious about the first set of benchmarks showing NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 being far stronger than AMD's competing products, since it was from one of the former company's own slides.

Now, though, a third party has conducted some tests, and the results do favor the Kepler-based adapter.

The GTX 680 was found to be far stronger than the GTX 580 and quite a bit ahead of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in some cases, though it did tie with it in others.

The test bench used an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU, the ASUS rampage IV Extreme motherboard, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and the Windows 7 x64 operating system.

Check out the gallery below for the actual results. After that, you can compare them to the aforementioned comparison NVIDIA made.

Kepler benchmark results (9 Images)

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