This is for all of us that love EVGA GPUs and those that might be inclined to try out one. Unfortunately there is no available date yet, but will keep you informed.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/evga_geforce_gtx_780_with_6gb_available.html

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It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?
Im not complaining, that means the high end cards now we be cheaper when I need to upgrade.

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It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?
Im not complaining, that means the high end cards now we be cheaper when I need to upgrade.

4K UHD displays are starting to make their way to market. Which I guess means they need to crank up the power to give the same frame rates with 4 times the pixels.
Short term they are probably cranking things up, but then will settle back down as time goes on.

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It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?

NVIDIA started, about 9 months ago, licensing chips to third parties instead of making them use entire reference cards. So this isn't NVIDIA pumping out these cards but third parties. Things are going to get harder for system builders though as an ASUS card with the same chip may no longer be SLI comparable with an EVGA; we now have proprietary NVIDA cards. The ASUS MARS 760 is a dual GPU that NVIDIA doesn't have a reference design for. This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party.

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This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party.

Ops, thats sounds not good...They could do the same as ASUS MARS 760 and use some power from the PCIe slot, something not safe for multi GPU hosts.

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It seems that GPU cards are starting to come out at an ever increasing rate. Is it the gamers who need more power faster or Just a marketing gimmic?

NVIDIA started, about 9 months ago, licensing chips to third parties instead of making them use entire reference cards. So this isn't NVIDIA pumping out these cards but third parties. Things are going to get harder for system builders though as an ASUS card with the same chip may no longer be SLI comparable with an EVGA; we now have proprietary NVIDA cards. The ASUS MARS 760 is a dual GPU that NVIDIA doesn't have a reference design for. This is why I say there will not be a reference 790 from NVIDIA, that will be up to a third party.

Non reference design could mean water blocks could become either more expensive or simply non-existent. This is not good.

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Non reference design could mean water blocks could become either more expensive or simply non-existent. This is not good.

NVIDIA, at this point in time, isn't doing like Intel and becoming just a chip maker. It has been less than a year since they started licensing just their chips. A bigger concern is drivers; third parties have to write their own drivers for their non standard designs.

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