Tuesday, February 2nd 2010
NVIDIA's First DirectX 11 Accelerators are GeForce GTX 480 and 470
A tweet on NVIDIA's Twitter account reveals that the company's first DirectX 11 compliant consumer graphics products will be named GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470, against popular opinion that they could make for the GeForce GTX 300 series. The most likely reason for this could be that the company has released mobile graphics products under the GeForce GT 3xx series which are based on its GT21x series GPUs which are DirectX 10.1 compliant. It would be hence easier to make out that DirectX 11 products start in the 400 series.
The two are based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU which physically has 512 CUDA cores (shader units), a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. While the GTX 480 is likely the full-featured part, it remains to be seen how NVIDIA carves out the GTX 470 SKU. An enquiry by AnandTech confirmed the authenticity of the Twitter account.
Source:
AnandTech
The two are based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU which physically has 512 CUDA cores (shader units), a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. While the GTX 480 is likely the full-featured part, it remains to be seen how NVIDIA carves out the GTX 470 SKU. An enquiry by AnandTech confirmed the authenticity of the Twitter account.
81 Comments on NVIDIA's First DirectX 11 Accelerators are GeForce GTX 480 and 470
And it's ironic since the same pleople that's going to complain about this complained about the GeForce 310. Remember this because it's one of the very few predictions that always become true. :laugh:
On another note; I'm also sure the card will be great but the price will remain high (too high), classic nVidia ploys to reel in those fanbois @ $700 a pop. :nutkick:
are they still waiting or are they going to release it soon?
2 series = DX10
3 series = DX10.1
4 series = DX11
Lol, sorry guys, I just had to!:laugh:
Smile... it's good for you.;)
Though GTX 440/460 would sound too much like MX 440/460 (www.nvidia.com/page/geforce4mx.html) that were the first renames of NVIDIA (that I remember). Geforce2 sold as 4, funny times :)
Even numbers for consumers and odd numbers for OEM. Though it's NVIDIA, wouldn't surprise me if they ditch the whole 3 digit concept on next generation :D
Anyhow, more info is good. Now we have a name, all we need is cards. Sooner these are out the sooner we can expect the mainstream selection, that will be more interesting to most.
Linkie: www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-quietly-intros-new-series-300-mobile-gpus/
jk
I wish nVidia would just release some cards already, its getting ridiculous at this stage.
Can't wait to see some prices on fermi though :)
edit: and seriously a tweet? absolutely moronic way of announcing product changes.