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20 February 2012
Reprove, Rebuke, Exhort
aul's instructions to Timothy (in 2 Timothy 4) include these imperatives: "reprove, rebuke . . . exhort" (2 Timothy 4:2). That's three successive words in the Greek text, each with a slightly different nuance.
The first, translated "reprove," carries the connotation of telling people that they are wrong, or that they have done something wrong. It has the idea of "reproach," "a rebuke," or the refutation of falsehood. As such it's a negative idea—and it's an idea that is definitely "out of season" in these postmodern times. But it's one of the key aspects of every elder's duty. If you try never to tell people they are wrong, you are not fulfilling the responsibility Paul names here.
Then there's the verb "rebuke." This is a stronger word yet. It denotes an expression of strong disapprovala denunciation, or even a formal censure. Paul regards it as Timothy's bounden duty not only to expose and refute error, sin, and false teaching, but also to denounce each appearance of those things clearly, identifying it as the evil that it truly is.
I am frankly amazed and appalled at how many pastors today deliberately shirk this duty. "It's not for me to criticize what other people are teaching. I just want to be always positive, and we'll let truth and error sort themselves out." But if you try to do that, you are not fulfilling the responsibility Paul positively assigns to every faithful minister, both here, and in Titus 1:9, where he emphatically makes this same duty the responsibility of every elder in the church: "He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it."
Titus 1:13 says some people need to be rebuked "sharply, [so] that they may be sound in the faith." In fact, when Paul gives this same charge to Titus, he words it as strongly as possible: "Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
That jars every postmodern sensibility, doesn't it? But it is a crucial aspect of the pastoral calling. No one is a faithful shepherd who refuses to deal decisively with dangers that threaten the flock.
Lest anyone think this is a prescription for angry-sounding hyper-fundamentalists, notice that there's an important qualification attached to this command: "exhort, with complete patience and teaching." The verb (exhort) is parakaleo; the same word translated "preaching" in the King James Version of 1 Timothy 4:13. It's a sweet word, closely related to parakletos, the name Jesus used to speak of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. It's used 29 times in the New Testament, and the first time it appears is in reference to Jesus, in Luke 2:25, where Christ is referred to as "the consolation [parakaleo], of Israel."
The expression conveys the ideas of encouragement, comfort, refreshment, solaceall in the form of a gentle entreaty, a verbal summons, a tender exhortation. That's the heart of biblical preaching.
And the purpose and the aim of all thisthe rebukes as well as the encouragementsis for the good of the hearersnever their hurt. Preaching is a guide and a corrective and a feast and a salveto edify or sometimes to heal the flock.
Preaching is not a cudgel with which to beat the sheep. So it must always be done "with complete patience and teaching." That echoes what Paul said two chapters earlier, 2 Timothy 2:25: "The Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth."
Paul is calling for every possible demonstration of patience, kindness, magnanimity, and longsuffering. People will not be won to the truth by relentless scolding. If your rebukes and corrections are flavored with exasperation rather than true concern for the flock; if you deal out reproach after reproach and upbraiding after upbraiding without a true spirit of gentleness, you're not being a true shepherd.
However: in these postmodern times, it is commonly thought that "gentleness" excludes every kind of rebuke or correctionespecially the sharp rebuke. But it's clear that Paul saw no necessary contradiction between gentleness and firm rebuke. That has to be our perspective as well, or we will never be up to the simple yet far-reaching task Paul lays on our shoulders here.
30 comments:
- Eddie Eddings said...
Phil, thanks for this "in season" post! I have been praying about confronting a fellow believer who uses vulgar language and posts such things on Facebook.
This came at the right time.
- 10:39 PM, February 19, 2012
- Sean Rice said...
Good post, but the Schueller and Olsteen graphics keep the point from hitting home. I had to ignore an impulse that kept telling me "I'm not like Olsteen, this post must not have been written for someone like me!" The pictures make it seem like you're talking to someone who is Schueller-like in their denial of the hard truths of Scripture, rather than the average Sunday school teacher who needs to be given a reminder to preach those hard truths without reservation.
- 12:41 AM, February 20, 2012
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- 5:29 AM, February 20, 2012
- Tim Bertolet said...
Serious question. How do you decide which wrong doctrines to rebuke and when?
Obviously if its coming up in my congregation, then yes, it needs to be addressed.
But something that I've always wrestled with is to what extent do I, as a pastor deal with stuff 'out there.'
Two-thirds of my small congregation is old enough to be my parents or grandparents, with more of them in the latter category. Most of them are not spending lots of time surfing the internet. They have no idea say for example about internet controversies that come up in 'young, restless and reformed' circles such as the "Elephant room" debacle.
At times introducing them to problems that will have little impact on them just to refute them seems counter productive. Do they need an inoculation shot against a virus they won't come into contact with? [now if I was teaching on the Trinity, I might provide examples of modalism and its dangers]
The issue for me is when and how can we be discerning on what to address and when to address it. Obviously some of this depends on the congregation. But do you have any questions you filter something through before you decide if/how to address it?
- 6:19 AM, February 20, 2012
- stratagem said...
Not only do pastors mostly shirk this duty, most of them I've known will state (in their more honest moments) that if someone in the pews is reproving, exhorting, or rebuking, they'd prefer that person leave. Even if they can't argue with what the person is rebuking about.
- 6:26 AM, February 20, 2012
- donsands said...
Excellent teaching of truth. And it needs to be heard in our culture big time.
My local radio "Chistian" station has actually labeled itself "The Positive Radio Station". Sad.
I used to share the truth with them, but the manager, who actaully likes me, said that every time I'd sens an e-mail the others would cringe.
It's sad that this positive spirit in the Body of Christ is causing "cringing" when one shares the truth of the "bad news" for sinners from a holy righteous God.
Thanks for the excellent post.
You words were perfect. You're a fine teacher Phil, and how I appreciate your posts; as I do all of the Team Pyro Three Amigos.
- 6:54 AM, February 20, 2012
- stratagem said...
donsands - I can so relate to that. We used ot have local stations but now everything has been taken over by the "positive and encouraging" network. Because if something's popular and marketable, then it must be true.
I used to joke something like "I wonder how they make "you might be going to Hell" positive and encouraging? Now I just don't listen to "christian" radio.
- 7:05 AM, February 20, 2012
- dac said...
Tim B. has identified exactly the crux of the matter. Because just as surely as some will not take a stand on any issue, some will take a stand on every issue.
- 7:20 AM, February 20, 2012
- donsands said...
"Now I just don't listen to "christian" radio."-strat
I listen less. The music is all positive, for the most part as well. And it's pop-culture "new wave" sounding, for the most aprt as well. And music-style is what it is:-- but the heart behind much of the music today is the Osteen heart and the Schuller heart of Possibilty and positive thinking. It really is shallow and worthless in some ways.
I keep on listening, and I keep sharing the whole truth when I can. I am the one being "rebuked" at times though. For having such a "negative" and judgmental attitude.
There are human souls suffering in torment, and it should be all human souls really. "But God ..." Eph. 2:8
ps And there IS the positive side which I love as well. In fact I seem to be mostly postive, or used to be at least, until I have been having problems with a few issues in my life.
- 7:37 AM, February 20, 2012
- Darlene said...
Mr Johnson,
What an excellent reminder for all who have the task of preaching. I appreciate the balance in your presentation.
I've become convinced that preaching must be of a hortatory nature. The hearers should be impelled to some kind of action after hearing a sermon. One must be left with some sense of urgency to meditate on what has been preached, in order to amend one's life. There have been times when after hearing such a sermon, I have been brought to repentance. Other times I have been compelled to investigate a particular doctrine, or to examine my heart to see if I am captured by a deadly passion, or to inquire into the needs of others. These kind of sermons have been instrumental in my spiritual growth.
Conversely, I have suffered under the preaching of sermons so distressing that my heart ached afterward to the point of overwhelming dejection for a time. I ached for those who had no idea that what was preached had no relation to genuine Christianity whatsoever. I ached for those who would be deceived into a nonchalant attitude toward sin.
Yet even more I must guard my heart that I not be deluded by those things which cling so closely and vie for my attention away from Christ my Savior.
- 7:45 AM, February 20, 2012
- 7:56 AM, February 20, 2012
- stratagem said...
donsands - I hear you bro. I run into people who honestly think that, besides the salvation message, being positive about everything is the essence of the Christian message. And K-love only reinforces that. After all, "God has a wonderful plan for your life..." ...that's in the Bible isn't it? (snicker) So, everything ought to be positive and encouraging, and I ought to be happy and get what I want that will make me happy. Sometimes that means I have to hurt other people to get what makes me happy but surely that's what God wants, isn't it, my happiness?
I find the music to be mostly benign, but some of it contains stuff that is as extrabiblical as the most fired-up charismatic tent meeting, frankly. And I have a hard time believing that that stuff is benign.
- 8:25 AM, February 20, 2012
- Stephen said...
For those interested in a quick google, Christian artist/worship leader Matt Papa (whom Challies has recommended) is in the middle of a currently 4 part blog series that calls out the vapidness and theologically depraved nature of most Christian radio.
On the main point, I think the problem Christian leaders have, at least those with my personality, is both anxiety and fear of stepping away from the gospel in anything and stepping into moralism or legalism. There's a place for confrontation, but it's not an easy place.
- 9:29 AM, February 20, 2012
- stratagem said...
I thought the point of this post was more about telling people what the true Gospel message actually is and then letting those who hear it decide how to handle the moral implications, instead of telling them that the Gospel is something that Osteen, Schuller et. al. have made it out to be, or telling them what rules to obey?
There's no real danger in that, is there?
- 9:58 AM, February 20, 2012
- CCinTn said...
For me the post was speaking of Paul's instructions to Timothy in how to handle false teaching and false teachers.
I saw a dividing line where on one side you are dealing gently with the flock instructing them of the dangers posed by the false teaching. This being the reproving or refutation of error Phil mentioned which is also coupled with exhorting with patience and sound teaching. The shepherd doesn't need to be beating on the sheep.
Then there is the manner of dealing with the actual false teacher which may require a sterner or sharp rebuke. The rebuke would be tailored to the level of the false teaching. I remember how Aquila and Pricilla took Apollos aside and taught him the whole gospel. His understanding was not as complete as it should have been and his teaching was therefore short of the mark and maybe significantly in some areas. However, you may have folks that are like the Judaizers or the early Gnostics who were treated much more harshly by Paul, John etc in scripture. I also remember Jesus commending the Church of Ephesus in Revelation 2 for 'hating' the Nicolaitons even as He hates the Nicolaitons. I'm sure that their hating went beyond the 'agree to disagree' or ignoring their teachings.
I think a perfect example of reproving and rebuking is in the sermon where John MacArthur speaks about John Olsteen. He has sharp words for Olsteen while gently exhorting his flock of the errors of Olsteen's teachings. One can only assume that there are some in his congregation that either have read Olsteen's books or heard him on television and may not understand the heresy he teaches. You can find the video of this sermon online and it's a wonderful example of how an under-shepherd is to protect his flock and expose a false teacher.
I pray that more pastors/elders will have such courage as the days we are in are becoming increasing dark.
- 12:05 PM, February 20, 2012
- Darlene said...
"I also remember Jesus commending the Church of Ephesus in Revelation 2 for 'hating' the Nicolaitons even as He hates the Nicolaitons."
CC, the actual text in Revelation says "you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." It's an important distinction, I think.
- 2:01 PM, February 20, 2012
- CCinTn said...
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- 2:37 PM, February 20, 2012
- CCinTn said...
You're correct on that! Big distinction.
That was off the top of my head and I should have checked the text prior to posting.
That aside though, their hating of 'the works', I think would have been of the Nicolaitons' teachings wouldn't you agree?
That said, I think the 'hating' commended by Christ went beyond a feeling. I think that they actively opposed this false heresy.
- 2:40 PM, February 20, 2012
- Darlene said...
Yes. I do think the hating of the works of the Nicolaitans is specifically referring to their teachings. Needless to say, such hating was more than a mere feeling. I think when we act out of dispassion in opposing false teaching, it is then that we can be especially effective.
- 3:21 PM, February 20, 2012
- Charlene said...
"Not only do pastors mostly shirk this duty, most of them I've known will state (in their more honest moments) that if someone in the pews is reproving, exhorting, or rebuking, they'd prefer that person leave. Even if they can't argue with what the person is rebuking about."
@ Stratagem, This is SO true. No matter how gently you say it, you are often anathema if you even suggest that something is not biblical or might be off in some regard. Everything has to be happy happy and positive and affirming or you are somehow not being gentle. The "gentle" part of that scripture is often wielded but never the "rebuke sharply" part. Excellent post, Phil.
- 3:25 PM, February 20, 2012
- Patrick said...
Thanks Phil for cutting it straight!
- 3:39 PM, February 20, 2012
- Cathy M. said...
If a pastor crosses a clear line into "another gospel" or some serious sin, I think any number of godly men in the congregation might confront him. However, it's not easy to know when someone should confront a pastor who is, say... consistently reciting downloaded sermons or wasting pulpit time blathering about current events. At what point is pastoral sloth a sin?
- 3:59 PM, February 20, 2012
- SamWise said...
Most of what passes for "preaching" is really "sheep beating!" For example, when a sheep hears, "Have you signed up for the latest...that our church is doing..." implies that not doing it make them "sub-Christian." Works-righteousness sermonettes really are a form of sheep abuse!
Then, there is the omnipresence of false teaching in media (old and new). When the "Man of God" teaches sound doctrine and warns about the false-doctrine most likely to be encountered, you help the sheep to be innoculated from becoming prey to wolf ("sheep lure") such as Wealth/Health, New-Age, Emergent, etc. Otherwise, your sheep will proudly bring it back to your local church anyway ("Look what gnosis I have")!
- 5:12 PM, February 20, 2012
- Solameanie said...
Having spent a long time in both secular and Christian radio before taking my present communications position full time, I have been amazed at the sharp decline of most Christian stations in terms of content over the past 18 years or so. And the one of the largest owners of Christian stations these days insists on "positive" for anything to air. As an apologist friend said years ago, "I'm absolutely positive about being negative." Especially when the negative is due and necessary.
- 5:24 PM, February 20, 2012
- donsands said...
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- 5:50 PM, February 20, 2012
- donsands said...
"Christian stations these days insists on "positive" for anything to air."-Sola
One other point I need to make about Christian radio is that "they" also have to make money. And so they do have to have an agenda to reach an audience, and also to reach businesses to place advertisements on their station.
So, it's probably a much broader subject than we can address here. Yet, i appreciate Phil allowing us to kick this around a bit. It's been good for me.
Another side thing is that since i listen to WRBS 95.1 Christian radio "less", I have become more involved with my local Classic Rock station, and have been able to share my faith, to a degree.
- 5:52 PM, February 20, 2012
- O Young said...
Excellent post, I really appreciate the fact that you brought up that we do not rebuke to exasperate someone. I for one hate conflict but it is inevitable when we have an enemy that goes around like a roaring lion. If only he were always so obvious in his attacks on the Body of Christ. To put in my 2 cents, we need to recognize who the enemy is and know that in times past he has always tried to twist the truth, he is very subtle and it is serious business dealing with him and his half truths-whole lies. We rebuke because we understand the danger of allowing these teaching to continue. That being said, our goal is always to bring a brother or sister back into the fold. So we rebuke in love in such a way as to give them a door to return.
- 6:27 PM, February 20, 2012
- Jason Brown said...
We want to be peaceable with everyone, as far as it depends on us, but we can't sacrifice truth on the alter of peace. That is what so many people try to do though. Matthew Henry says "If truth be once deserted, unity and peace will not last long." It's like ER2. Sometimes you just have to stand up and point out that the emperor has no clothes. Just know that when you reprove anyone in this day and age, particularly one who serves their own appetites (Rom 16), be prepared to be reviled, no matter how gentle and respectful you are. Then you get to practice all of that stuff about suffering in a Christ honoring way that we see in 1 Peter. Great blog, by the way.
- 7:36 PM, February 20, 2012
- Morris Brooks said...
@Cathy M...When they have the pattern you just described.
A mark of maturity is the ability to speak the truth in love. That must start with the pastors first, as a model to the flock. Which is part of preaching with patience and instruction. The question for many pastors is, "Do you love your people enough to tell them the truth?"
As pastors we cannot live the spiritual lives of our flock for them, but we can sure model it.
- 11:48 PM, February 20, 2012
- Ebeth said...
Thanks, Phil. We've just finished studying 1 Timothy in Every Woman's Grace and it's more clear how difficult a pastor's work is, especially in when it comes to reproving, rebuking, exhorting, yet how necessary.
- 9:55 PM, February 22, 2012


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Graphics Card Review - Kepler in Motion
The Kepler Architecture
Join us today at 12pm EST / 9am CST as PC Perspective hosts a Live Review on the new GeForce GTX 680 graphics card. We will discuss the new GPU technology, important features like GPU Boost, talk about performance compared to AMD's lineup and we will also have NVIDIA's own Tom Petersen on hand to run some demos and answer questions from viewers. You can find it all at http://pcper.com/live!!
NVIDIA fans have been eagerly waiting for the new Kepler architecture ever since CEO Jen-Hsun Huang first mentioned it in September 2010. In the interim, we have seen the birth of a complete lineup of AMD graphics cards based on its Southern Islands architecture including the Radeon HD 7970, HD 7950, HD 7800s and HD 7700s. To the gamer looking for an upgrade it would appear that NVIDIA had fallen behind; but the company is hoping that today's release of the GeForce GTX 680 will put them back in the driver's seat.
This new $499 graphics card will directly compete against the Radeon HD 7970, and it brings quite a few "firsts" to NVIDIA's lineup. This NVIDIA card is the first desktop 28nm GPU, the first to offer a clock speed over 1 GHz, the first to support triple-panel gaming on a single card, and the first to offer "boost" clocks that vary from game to game. Interested yet? Let's get to the good stuff.
The Kepler Architecture
In many ways, the new 28nm Kepler architecture is just an update to the Fermi design that was first introduced in the GF100 chip. NVIDIA's Jonah Alben summed things up pretty nicely for us in a discussion stating that "there are lots of tiny things changing (in Kepler) rather than a few large things which makes it difficult to tell a story."
GTX 680 Block Diagram
Continue reading our review of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Graphics Card!!
The chip that the GeForce GTX 680 is built on — GK104 — is seen in its block diagram form above. Already, you can see a big difference between this and the GTX 580 flagship card before it. There are 1536 stream processors / CUDA cores on GTX 680 compared to the 512 cores found in GTX 580 cards. The divisions of the GPU still exist in NVIDIA's design — the GPC is a combination of SMs — though they have changed as well. A GPC now includes two SMX units (seen below) where the GTX 580 GPC included four SMs each.
With the SM increasing from 32 cores to 192 cores each, NVIDIA is claiming a performance per watt metric improvement of 2x which is becoming a crucial factor as designers focus on the thermal limits and power consumption of GPUs.
Kepler SMX Block Diagram
The SMX unit consists of 192 CUDA cores, an updated PolyMorph Engine, 16 texture units, thread scheduling, among others. Further, the cores are arranged differently than we saw in Fermi with six cores per special function unit (SFU) instead of four. Warp (thread) count has gone from 48 to 64 in Kepler.
With the 128 total texture units on the GTX 680 (twice what we had on the GTX 580) and an increase in cores of nearly 3x, you might be wondering how it all balances out. You may also be curious whether Kepler is really 3x as fast as Fermi.
Gone away is the "hot clock" of NVIDIA GPUs where the cores would operate at twice the clock rate of the base GPU. Instead Kepler now runs the entire chip at the same clock rate. The reasoning is a trade off in terms of die space and power consumption. Engineers were able to reduce the clock power by half and logic power by 10% at the expense of some die area, but with a focus on power efficiency on this design it was a change they were obviously willing to make.
Another change in Kepler is found in the scheduling component where much of the process is actually moved from hardware to software to be run in the NVIDIA driver. Because the software is already handling so much of the decoding process from DirectX, CUDA, OpenCL, and more NVIDA found it to be more power efficient to continue to increase the workload in the software rather than on the chip itself. Some items remain on die though because of latency concerns, such as texture operations.
Because of a reduction in the number of SMX units per chip, NVIDIA had to double up on the performance of individual PolyMorph engines. But because we have half the SMX units on Kepler as you did on Fermi, total chip performance hasn't changed much.
Compared to AMD's Radeon HD 7970 the GTX 680 is actually a bit slower at lower expansion factors and it's not until we hit 11x that we start to see the advantages NVIDIA once claimed to have throughout the scale. Both companies debate which factors are most important though to game developers with AMD claiming that the lower factors are much more often used.
For the new memory design NVIDIA has gone with a 256-bit controller (compared to the 384-bit found on Fermi) though the clock speeds are running at 6 Gbps (1500 MHz)! The total memory bandwidth provided by this design is 192 GB/s, which is basically identical to that of the GTX 580. ROP count has decreased from 48 on the GTX 580 to 32 on Kepler/GTX 680, however.
Today's GTX 680 will ship with a 2GB frame buffer and some users may lament of expectation for NVIDIA to match AMD's 3GB memory configuration on the HD 7900 cards. While we are never one to say we don't want MORE memory on our GPUs, in our testing we have not seen detrimental effects of 2GB versus 3GB of memory even on multi-display gaming.
The GTX 680 is indeed a PCI Express 3.0 compatible card and the GPU does support DX11.1 features as well, but it isn't really anything to get excited about just yet.
One interesting change is the addition of NVENC, a dedicated video encoding engine that is built (essentially) to rival the QuickSync technology found in Intel's Sandy Bridge processors. The logic is completely fixed function now — it is no longer using the CUDA cores to encode video — and NVIDIA claims that it is even more power efficient than Intel's implementation. In fact, I was told by designers that the NVENC feature could actually be used while the GPU was powered off.
Another important change is found in the display support on Kepler as NVIDIA has finally moved away from the two display limit on single GPU cards. You can now run up to four displays on a single card, and run three of them in an NVIDIA Surround or 3DVision Surround configuration for multi-display gaming. This is obviously a feature that NVIDIA has needed for quite some time, and we are glad to see it in Kepler. DisplayPort 1.2 support is included as well.
And here she is, the Kepler die in all her glory. The 28nm GPU is built with 3.54 billion transistors and is 294mm^2.
There is quite a bit more to Kepler and the GeForce GTX 680 though.
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I'm a little disappointed in Batman AC at 1080p rez.
Nivida dips way down to laggy 25fps while AMD is in the 40s.
Average Frame rates are a little higher but not enough to notice during gameplay. You will notice a lag spike to 25fps though.
They say win gtx 680 but I'm thinking its really a win AMD.
Would rather have high min fps and ave 55fps vs averaging 60 fps and having lag spikes like that.
Hey thanks for the much detailed review. I'm a gamer and try to upgrade my rig from time to time. Still using a pair of AMD 5870's and thinking/hoping to do an upgrade sometime. I've been thinking amd7970, but open to Nvidia too.
So I'll keep watching for more. Looking forward to Josh's review of the MXI 7970R.
Thanks for the good show.
That is... a lot of green squares in those NVIDIA provided diagrams. They kinda burn my eyes. But in a good way.
Awesome! Triple monitor benches and a perfomance/dollar increase. Any idea why the 7970 and 7950 are dead even at 5760x1080, do they have some common limiting factor at that res.? This is going to make for a tough choice if AMD drops their pricing to be competitive with this!
It's about time they paid attention to what we want :)
im just wondering what the temp is the fan running at.
Well the temp was listed as 81C, is that what you needed?
I checked some benchmarks around the web. This card has almost nonexistant GPU compute portion, this card is even worse than GTX 570 in GPU rendering, even worse, it is more than 2 times slower than the Radeon HD 7870. And that doesn't surprise me, only 3.5 billion transistors, compared to previous 3.2 billion.
This is a Gaming card only, don't make your self a fool and try to use this as a card for doing some work that pays you back with some green bucks. :P
I may be a bit harsh, but mostly it is true.
That's why there are gaming cards and cards for rendering. This is a gaming card review, your comment is unnecessary.
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Great review, as usual. A little disappointed by the mins, but generally terrific absolute performance despite the low power consumption and reasonable temps. And nvidia is being reasonable with their pricing as well. Have been waiting for this for my son's rig, which is presently running two 460 1gb hawks in sli. At that price, with this performance, we are probably going to pull the trigger if they come back into stock at newegg at the same price.
Update:EVGA came back in stock and we pulled the trigger. Glad I had a $250 gift card from way back that I was saving for just such an occasion.
Good review, been waiting on a good upgrade to my gtx 560's in sli. This should be a great card with the low power draw. I love my 560's but in battlefield the drop in fps to 30 fps at random points because of sli have been really annoying. I wonder if anyone has figured that out yet. (Ryan posted about this back in December I think)Doesn't matter as I just picked up the Msi card from Newegg as I was reading article I kept refreshing Newegg and it jumped in stock and I was able to get one. I can't wait , I ordered it next day for a total of $523.22 not bad. (Glad I got in before the price gouging begins) I am sure glad Nvidia this time around did better on their pricing. I was holding off on getting new card till these came out to see which was a better option. I have always like Nvidia for their drivers and control panel over Amd/Ati. I am glad I waited. Now just need to save for another one later on and get a triple 27" monitor setup and I will be golden.
One question Ryan!!. Can you tell me what power supply will be required to run a sli configuration on the new gtx680.
The only requirement for a single GPU is a 550 watt power supply, so I am going to recommend a 750w for SLI.
Dam wish I could have gotten the evga version. I just saw it come back in stock but I already got a tracking number for my shipment. I was going to change to the egva version.
Quick question Ryan. Will the new card and drivers allow you configure just two monitors for surround. Currently eyefinity lets you group two monitors together as a single display/resolution. Can you do this with the GTX 680?
No, they still require three displays.
Can I ask what use you have for a two panel configuration?
Thanks for the info. I have a very specific application in mind, which probably wouldn't apply to most people.
I've recently built a dual projector system for passive 3D. Having a 3840 x 1080p perfectly synced screen allows me to play full frame 1080p side by side 3d video. Doing this allows me to give each eye the full 1080p image.
The eyefinity setup keeps the monitors perfectly in sync as long as I use two of the same outputs, minidisplay port to hdmi for both. Mixing outputs introduced a very slight lag to one of the displays, which is barely noticable.
There is some other software(Stereoscopic Player) which will play 3d video to two mintors for this purpose, but I had trouble getting everything to sync up.
I was hoping Nvidia would add this feature, as I greatly prefer there drivers for most games. There is one option, I could buy one of the Matrox Triple Head to go adapt. and use it with the Nvidia card, but obv. there is a little extra cost going that route. Thanks for the info!
Seems AMD got thoroughly beat. Does this mean lower prices on the 7970?
Nowadays it isn't that hard to make a GPU just for gaming. In raytracing rendering tasks it is surpassed even by GTX 570, not to mention radeon HD 7870 that does so more than two times.
It seems that nvidia will be adequate for productiviy work only with GK110 die. Because transistors will go from 3.5 to 6 billion, but Cuda cores only from ~1500 to ~2000, so it could be due to a higher percentage of computing cores on a given die.
I must admit. I want this. But it's too much and my Radeon 5850 is still fine.
Regarding the following item in the article:
"Because the software is already handling so much of the decoding process from DirectX, CUDA, OpenCL, and more NVIDA found it to be more power efficient to continue to increase the workload in the software rather than on the chip itself. Some items remain on die though because of latency concerns, such as texture operations."
How much of a burden does this place on the CPU? 1%, 5%, 10%, or more? Will the driver sense which CPU core is being utilized the most and offload this processing to a core that is not being utilized for the game (knowing that most games probably don't use more than two cores)?
I asked this question and was told that move to the CPU was "very minimal" and that overall it was "the most efficient way" to get things done.
Though, like you, I wonder how much of this makes the GPU more efficient while the CPU LESS efficient. If it were a big deal though it would have shown up in our power consumption testing since it monitors total system power consumption or in performance result drops.
Minimal is probably a good term here. With the ability to lay hands on inexpensive multi-core CPUs that often are not stressed in any game at standard resolutions, this software overhead looks to be a non-factor. There might be some corner cases, but you would expect the bottleneck to be somewhere else.
Ryan, I know you were extremely busy or rushed in your review, I hope you read this and consider it deeply. I read the review at work, finally get to comment. I really think the review is lacking in a few key areas, and not to say it is biased, but it leaves out some critical information.
1. The OC of the 7970 is VASTLY superior to the Nvidia card. The MSI Lightning stock OC goes to 1070, and adds 5-7 AVG FPS in gaming. When you OC that to around 1150 as just about every reference card has been able to do, it is another 5-7 AVG FPS. That isn't including the "good" cards that can OC to ~1300 and have 20-25% more frames over the stock ref designs.
2. The skyrim bench especially as well as batman appear to simply be games where the Nvidia support at development clearly gives them the edge. It would be nice to see some other games added to the benchmarking roster of games.
Specifically, R.U.S.E., Alan Wake, Wings of Prey and even Crysis (not 2) would be some good games to add. The first 3 have some very nice "effects" settings which really push the high end cards. I have a 4850, the only one of those I can run well is crysis, but I have to turn everything down and middle of the road.
3. We ALL KNOW that the ATI 79xx cards are underclocked. To the point where the 7950 beats the 7970 with a slight OC. It is extremely interesting how Metro 2033 was the single benchmark where the ATI cards pulled ahead, but contrasting that with the skyrim results, it is clear as a reader that something isn't right here. BF3 has a slight nvidia edge, Batman and Skyrim appear to have a clear Nvidia edge, but it would seem that every other game might be a flip-flop type scenario, where one card does better on one thing and the others do things better on a different game. It appears to be a driver issue, and we all know that ATI has had dramatic driver issues with the 7 series, to the point where they barely came out weeks ago.
4. The speedboost, in my opinion, is a very poor "feature". I get the idea behind it, but it seems to be clearly for power savings only and seems very much like a marketing feature or something that would make sense on a laptop rather then a desktop. I would have loved to see a feature or setting where that can be disabled, and traditional OC is possible. I see it as a negative that this isn't available.
5. The OC being limited to around 2% is a very poor limit and shows just how much the turbo effects everything. I have seen the MSI Lightning 7970, as mentioned above, OC well beyond the 10-15% normal range, upwards of adding 20-25 AVG FPS to some games.
6. Even though we all know ATI is dropping prices, it is clear that the review was tilted in a way which let it seem like nvidia was doing "a favor" by undercutting the price. If you add up all of the above, it isn't simply as clear as that. Whoever comes out first gets the high price, it always, always drops. I think if you visit the price in a week, let alone a month, it will make a lot more sense, and pricing shouldn't be handled as a major factor when we have news that the competitor will be dropping prices in response. It comes off as irresponsible to the reader when I see that, or when I see things not mentioned like that in reviews.
It's a lot to digest, but I hope it makes sense.
I would love to see an "OC" comparison when you do SLI testing, as well as some new games added to the roster for testing.
Thanks for the review.
For some info on skyrim, look at the apple to apple comparisons over here.
A very close match without MSAA, MSAA is clearly nvidia biased, and when you turn on the vendor specific techniques, it is clear that AMD is having drastic issues.
1.33:1 without MSAA (would be 1:1 with OC)
2:1 with MSAA
4:1 with vendor specific
Just looking over a lightning review. http://hardocp.com/article/2012/03/20/msi_r7970_lightning_video_card_rev...
Game: [stock/ref(925 MHZ) vs. lightning(1070MHz) vs. OC to 1170MHz]
Skyrim: 64.7 vs 73.2 vs 78 (20.6% Faster)
ME3: 117 vs. 125.2 vs. 132.1 (12.9% Faster)
BatmanAC: 40.3 vs 44.8 vs 47.9 (18.9% Faster)
BF3: 45.7 vs 51.2 vs 53.9 (17.9% Faster)
DE:HR: 62.9 vs 69.9 vs 74.9 (19.1% Faster)
Again, I would love to see some OC vs. OC results.
Here's a review of overclocked cards. GTX 680 comes out top.
1. That's good to know, but we aren't testing overclocked cards. We are testing reference cards in this review. We do review OC model cards (like the XFX model 7970 we tested) and will have a test of the Lightning next week. I think your estimate of 25% better improvement is an overestimate.
2. That's crap. Metro 2033 was an "NVIDIA game" and Dirt 3 was an "AMD game" yet those titles don't show any bias. Both vendors can write driver fixes to ANY game.
3. Fair enough - but we can only test based on the real user experience that you get when you install the cards and play the games. Saying that the HD 7970 is underclocked to me simply means that AMD didn't have the balls to release a card at the CORRECT speed then.
4. I think you misunderstand the feature then - I think it is really a compelling addition to get users the full capability of their GPU regardless of the game/application being played. When our video interview with Tom Petersen is online, you should take a listen?
5. I was able to hit a 150 MHz offset on the GTX 680 which is basically a 15% overclock.
6. Pricing is THE MAJOR factor other than performance. Yes, it is always changing, but to pretend it isn't a crucial factor is simply insane.
Thanks for you comments man, I love to hear what others are thinking, even if we disagree! :D
1. It was just one of those things that glared out to me, and the 25% is probably 20% based on the HardOCP review, but that is a bunch more then 2%, which would make things extremely close in the end.
2. I don't know if AMD helped with metro, or if all amd cards run better on it, but the point is, Nvidia clearly had helped with physx and some filtering stuff in bf and others, it would be a good idea to add some variety to the benches, I would add R.U.S.E. and WoP for sure (they are different types of games then the ones you have listed, and as I said, they have some very nice high end dx10/11 features).
3. I completely agree, but it would have been nice as a reader to see some "by the way" type text.
4. I didn't say there wasn't a point to it, but I just don't get it, or better put, agree with it. Why with 1500+ cores you would want to OC them on the fly? I would want to be able to test things and make them stable. I see benchmarks vastly varying with games, it could be related to this "feature". Maybe heat of the case/card forces some bad benches for some sites and better scores for others? IDK, just something to look into. I know for power specifically people have "proof" of shenanigans, especially with 3dmark, so who really knows, but I know there is more then meets the eye with this.
5. But the performance was only 2% better, not much higher, The high binned 7970's go to 1250-1300+ which is around (35-40%, even at 1150 it is 25%)
6. It has more to do with the fact that we already know that amd is going to reduce their pricing, and it is going to be within a week more then likely. If they don't the review stands, but if they do, then it really comes off as overly harsh for no reason in the long run. Let me put it this way, have you ever gone back and revised this, for the people who look at your review AFTER the prices drop? Nope, because it ALWAYS happens and it always has to do with either a competitor releasing something, or a new card being out. In my opinion, it always seems like after a week the pricing on reviews is completely off.
Like I said, I didn't want to come off as a jerk or w/e, but it was stuff I wanted you to discuss or look into. The point with the OC stuff was to bring it up before you do SLI/OC testing, and I know Josh is writing the lightning review, but it would be a good idea to toss those numbers in the mix and get an idea of which one, OC'd or at it's best let's say, actually performs the best. It seems very straightforward to me that the 7970 OCs a lot better.
Looks like we have that annoying "coil whine" here. Ryan, did you experience any in this review? Peeps may want to watch this video review at LinusTechTips here @ 7:31:
Note: Video also includes a cool cat
Actually, I know of this phenomenon but I didn't experience with the GTX 680. I have with some HD 7000 cards though. In my opinion this is some kind of odd mix of PSU/GPU that causes it. I have never been able to pinpoint one architecture of PSU as the culprit.
Ryan, can you put that fancy SPL meter on this beast and provide some noise measurements?
I run a Define R3 chassis and use "reference" blower-style fans on my GPUs in order to keep the noise/heat down during idle periods and provide more effective heat dissipation under load without adding more than the 2 fans I currently have. It's loud under load, but I can deal with that since I game with a headset.
Would be interesting to see how this compares to, say, my current 570 blower. Especially considering every new card release comes along with a marketing line regarding lower heat and noise.
Sorry, we had these numbers the whole time but I forgot to post them!
Again, the GTX 680 impressed us.
Wow just got the gtx680 installed and all I can say is Wow!!!!. I have bought many of top of the line video card over the years, and this is the first time I have ever been completely satisfied with one. This one is amazing. So powerful, quiet and only running 65c under load in Nvidia cooler master stacker case. Battlefield 3 run so smooth even running on 32inch 1080p ultra with vsync enabled never drops below 60 fps. Crysis 2 smooth as butter on extreme hi res textures. Now I think its time to look into getting into surround setup. if I could only get some good 27inch with small bezels for a good price.
All I can say it WOW Sweat I Want one so sad it out of my price rang at this time.
Great Review many thnaks Ryan
The reason for frame rate capping is to lower the temps of the card. Which also reduces the fanspeed automatically and consuming less power overall.
It works, I tried it in Battlefield 3 with my two GTX 580's in SLI. Normally I get about 100 FPS on Ultra, gpu's at 82C max. With a FPS cap of 80 FPS, I drop temps down to 70's. 10 degree savings and quieter operation.
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"That's what it's all about: When your back is against the wall, you're able to pull yourself up," Davis said. "This team has done an unbelievable job of showing that we can do that. We've shown a ton of resilience. We've shown we step up to adversity."
The Dynamo will turn their focus to Montreal, which sat atop the conference into July but dropped to fifth place after finishing the season 1-6-1. The Impact are led by veteran Italian striker Marco Di Vaio, an MVP candidate who bagged 20 goals this season.
Should the Dynamo win, they will advance to a two-leg conference semifinal against the top-seeded New York Red Bulls (17-9-8).
"We always say at the beginning of the year that we want to be in the playoffs, and that's what we've done," defender Bobby Boswell said. "From this point on, it's all about results, and we always seem to be a team that gets results in the playoffs. I hope that trend continues."
Thomas Floyd is a freelance writer.


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We've seen Serpico playing chess with the golems at Flora's place!
it reminded me of how the pirates could get through the barrier of the Four Kings due to their "semi-human" nature.
We sit down with a bunch of old people to talk about a bunch of old people in Elfhelm for our review of Episode 345
Ahh, that's right! I knew I'd seen it somewhere.
Between this and the cat, I should probably just stop trying to call out "firsts" for things in Berserk at this point
Nice to have Grail and Griffith join as well, Griffith's knack for finding a comedic side to everything always cracks me up. The Beherit stuff was gold!
1:21-1:23 That was me about Griffith's ambition vs other God Hand's desires! " Somebody " Damn it Aaz.
In any case, the point about Puck's beherit was interesting. Technically if its possible to use the World tree connection to reach the road of dragons somehow, then I dont think the beherit is going to be needed for that.
Continueing on becchi, could a minor wind spirit/elf be able to influence such a powerful artifact like beherit? I think its hard to say. Elves are considered empaths and good spirits. Could their od be able to change the nature of beherit? Turning it from an evil cursed object to something that's more closer to natural ( 4 kings? ). I dont think we'll see Guts swallowing beherits any time soon, and its doubtful a single beherit would be enough to create something like Skull Knight's beherit sword. So screw it, it becomes a white good beherit and guts can use it to tap into magical power that can further increase his abilities by borrowing power from 4 Kings.... Without turning him into an apostle and ruin the core theme of the manga. Yeah, went off the road there, but got hooked on your speculation .
Also Grail mentioned the Rankin/Bass Hobbit cartoon from the 70's and I agree that when I first saw the Guru's I instinctively got vibes from that show. Nothing too specific but the art style from those old cartoons mixed with the classic fantasy caricatures of old wizards with pointy hats and great beards is nostalgic to me. I watched those a lot when I was a kid.
Since they have hosting, play-by-play, and analysis down pat my focus is more color commentary and off the wall musings. I just need a soundboard with honking horns and clucking chicken noises on it.
Since they have hosting, play-by-play, and analysis down pat my focus is more color commentary and off the wall musings.
I just need a soundboard with honking horns and clucking chicken noises on it.
That brief discussion of the possibilities of Guts'/Puck's beherit got my gears turning a bit as well. [...] the notion that it's more or less just a key to the road of dragons might mean that it could be used to somehow "lock the door," stated simply. I also wonder if it couldn't be used in reverse, should Guts find himself in a hopeless situation deep in the astral world or perhaps even the abyss, if it then might be possible to open the road back to the mortal world.
And I agree with everyone in the cast that the beherit, however it ends up making it's mark in the story, is going to be a really big deal and will have been foreshadowed since the very first arc with the black swordsman.
Really enjoyed the podcast as always! Thanks guys and gal for doing it. I think the 4 of you have a good dynamic going between you. It was fun listening. Your gruel analogy about the anime made me laugh, Walter. It's just so true.
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By CHRIS WHITAKER
AIKEN, S.C. - Georgia Southwestern won its biggest game since joining the Peach Belt when the Lady Hurricanes won at USC Aiken last season.
They did it again on Monday.
Brittany Reynolds delivered big shot after big shot in scoring a game-high 17 points, and Whitley Wiltz scored 16 as GSW opened conference play by beating the Lady Pacers, 62-57.
"It's such a huge win on many levels," said coach Kelly Britsky. "Anytime you get a win on the other side of the conference, especially a quality team as Aiken, hopefully it will come back later in the season and be a big point in our direction."
Reynolds put GSW up for good at 13-12 with 5:55 left in the first half, and her 3-pointer at the buzzer gave the Lady Hurricanes a 25-15 lead at the half.
GSW's biggest lead came at 46-30 with eight minutes left on another Reynolds 3-pointer. Britsky said Reynolds and Wiltz carried the team.
"They were our tandem pair last night," she said. "Whitley really stepped it up. We count on her to guard the best player on the the other team, and a lot of times she gets caught up on the defensive effort and don't score a lot. She was able to find a seam in the defense and score some points. A lot of kids did good things that didn't show up on the stats."
GSW (6-5, 1-0 PBC) was 6-of-12 behind the arc and shot 42 percent for the game. It was out-rebounded 45-27, but it made up for it by holding Aiken to 34 percent while forcing 24 turnovers.
"They were one of the best rebounding teams I've found in a couple of years," said Britsky. "One thing we went into the game trying to do was limit Aiken to 50 shots. They have such good shooters, and we knew they couldn't get many looks. They had 15 in the first half and finished with 50. I think that was the difference - them not getting a lot of looks at the goal."
GSW led 59-48 with 1:08 remaining when Aiken finished with a 9-3 run. Back-to-back threes from Triahna Harris and Nakia Pinkney brought Aiken to within 60-57 with 19 seconds left.
"It was a little out of control the last two minutes," said Britsky. "They made a roaring comeback to put themselves back in the game. It basically came down to us getting the ball in bounds and getting fouled."
Catherine Cain led Aiken (5-6, 0-2) with 15 points, and Pinkney had 10.
GSW hosts Montevallo at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Brittany Reynolds needs 11 points to reach 1,000 points in her GSW career
PICTURED: Brittany Reynolds
PHOTO BY: Chris Fenn