Alas, the premature listing appears to have been pulled, but it should be back up soon

Mar 22, 2012 07:49 GMT  ·  By

NVIDIA hasn't officially launched the Kepler yet, but it may as well have, seeing how its official video has been leaked and most OEM cards have already been listed.

Sure, the order pages that Newegg put up earlier today (March 22, 2012) got pulled, but not before the damage was already done, so to speak.

We already covered this actually, but we are going to take a closer look at some of the devices on the list that TecnoReviews managed to snap a shot of.

EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 struck our fancy for being among the more affordable, at $509.

The price set by NVIDIA is actually $499, but Newegg added the usual $10 margin, to ensure some profit for itself.

At any rate, $509 is better than the $524 or $534 of some rival boards that don't have any different specs.

The European price hasn't been found yet, but exchange rates say $499 is the same as 375 Euro, so we'll go with that for now, even though the tag is more likely to be of 470 Euro, or maybe 499.

Anyway, the EVGA GTX 680 sticks to reference clock speeds, dual-link DVI ports (two), HDMI (one port), a DisplayPort 1.2 output and fairly small stickers, compared to the others.

For those who aren't up to speed with the performance numbers, the graphics processing unit operates at 1,006 MHz, while the 1,536 CUDA cores (shaders) run at 1,006 MHz too.

As for the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, their frequency is of 1,502 MHz or 6,008MHz data rate.

Finally, as if those numbers weren't already nice enough, the new GPU boost technology can sweeten the deal even further.Like Intel's Turbo Boost, it is a dynamic overclocking technology that can push the Kepler's clock to 1,058 MHz, as long as the board is consuming less energy than its maximum TDP (thermal design power).