Is mid range Kepler equal to high end AMD card?

[Hridayeshu]

Well Nvidia could be trying to make up for how they are underwhelming GeForce 400 series of the graphic cards. NVIDIA GK104 GPU will power Santa Clara a California-based company's mainstream which is also known as a mid-range models. It means that GK104 would land on the cards or it will simply succeed the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. The placement on middle level market segement cannot be the releaible indicator for the performance. GK104 would have the memory interface of 256 bits and it will be blocked by 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM. So far there is no information available about the clock speed but they are saying that GK104 would have the great performance improvement over the previous version of the graphic card.

[Tigerius]

When G92 was lunched it was known as a midrange card because of competitive environment at particular moment of the time. It was available at the cost of $299 to give competition RV670 (HD3870) at the same price. AMD is not having anything in order to beat G80. Hence they kept interval between the 8600GTS and 8800GTS since AMD was late about 8 months with R600 (HD2900) and Nvidia card was having their deFacto-monopoly.

[Oms-waroop]

8800GT was also good in the SLi but it was bit expensive. There was no introduction of 3-way SLi at that particular moment of the time. AMD can compete the high end graphic card by making the dual-GPU card.

[Anvita]

Till AMD is looking to introduce HD7990 there will not be need for the Kepler high-end. Right now mid range graphic card is good option for us. There was rumored that there would be drop in the price of GTX500's because HD7970 could compete. Nvidia is aware that AMD is ahead hence they have to planned ahead. I am sure about that GK112 was not the part of the same series GK104 and I am wondering that it would be meant for the HD8970.

[Hayley]

I am hoping that they will not repeat the 400 series blunder with the upcoming cards. The 580 is running well on my system and I think I will skip this one and look for the next generation graphic card.

[Bageshri27]

In case they are looking to provide dual gpu product by using the kepler cores then I am wondering that GK104 would be the predominant core and it would be rebranded for the specific usage. We are having 7970 and 7950 is coming, after going through the reviews these cards are not much faster as GTX580/590 and there was no rumored for the price drops. In case GK104 is supposed to fill the gap then there would not be competitive reason for the GK110 and single GPU product would be faster than that of GK104.
If GK104 and HD7970 are close in most of the terms then I am sure that dual GK104 and 7990 are supposed to be close enough. I think nVidia has to provide better single-GPU than that of AMD dual-GPU.