Menthol wrote:
I think I seen the same thing in an online review and they were not sure if it was game related or not. Don't remember which review site I read so many, I'm still waiting for availability on the 680's, haven't been able to get any yet.
I am really starting to think that our buddy "The Snake" Nvidia RIGGED the GTX 680 drivers besides disabling the PCIe 3.0 mode.
RIGGED as to make it "appear like" the Top Gun Graphics card in benchmarking against the "Honest" ATI 7970.
The reason I am suspecting this, because when was running 2 7970's in Crossfire, If you enabled every single 3d settings to override and to the max, in every benchmark, and game, you can see the difference AND get the FPS reductions accordingly with some benchmarks to almost a crawl. This is what you can expect with any typical graphics card.
But with the 680's in SLI, I am getting the opposite of what you would normally expect! With settings on Global Override and to the MAX, does absolutely nothing with graphics quality ( AFAIK Nothing close like to what the 7970 can do!) and the Big Kicker is, I get INCREASED FRAME RATES!
I am doing some more testing... with other combinations.. but whomever has access to one of these cards, or even both, it would be interesting to know about your own results.