Monday, February 22nd 2010
NVIDIA To Unveil GeForce GTX 400 Series at PAX
NVIDIA built a fair bit of hype over the weekend on Twitter, when it said that come Monday, it would make a "major announcement". It turns out that the company will unveil its GeForce GTX 400 series graphics card at the PAX East gaming event to be held in late March, on the 26th, 31 days away at the time of preparing this report. The PAX East event will be held in Boston, United States.
NVIDIA will unveil two of its high-end, next-generation graphics cards based on the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Being DirectX 11 compliant marks that generation shift. An American online retailer listed the GeForce GTX 480 for US $699 on pre-order.
NVIDIA will unveil two of its high-end, next-generation graphics cards based on the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Being DirectX 11 compliant marks that generation shift. An American online retailer listed the GeForce GTX 480 for US $699 on pre-order.
73 Comments on NVIDIA To Unveil GeForce GTX 400 Series at PAX
I've been reading their article and here is what they are indicating (no it's not from Charlie this time):
- Fermi won't be seen until sometime in May 2010, (Q2 of FY 2011)
- Delay is the result of bug(s) or thermal related issues
- They know the specs and performance numbers but wouldn't state them. However, did state that clock frequencies (650 MHz) is lower then expected and it has an effect on performance (hint, hint). They also indicate that the 470 and 480 will be competitive towards the 5850 and 5870. But did indicate that 470/480 won't be a knock out. Indicating that ATI's offering in performance is superb. They are not sure if 650 MHz will be the final clock rate though.
- ATI will have re-spun and re-binned their upcoming products (clocks, etc) to compete
- GF100 is using A3 making this the 3rd revision indicating a problem
- No information regarding power consumption
sourceAlso how come it's going to be unveiled March 26th? What about the Fermi demo at the last CES? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but wasn't that intended as an 'unveiling' or is a 'sneek-peek' something different?
While trying to find more info on this card release I ran across on old web page back from when the 7800XT (think it was XT model but it was a 7800) was about to be released and the pricing was $849. When I purchased my 8800 GTS 512's the 8800 Ultra was selling for $800 and it was not a new product at that time.
We have no performance specs and really absolutely hardly any info to go on for Nvidia's new cards but from what Nvidia wants us to believe about the Fermi performance then $700 will be justified if it performs at or close to a 5970.
I am a fan of Nvidia products and as history shows us Nvidia products have always out performed ATI product and this has never changed. If both ATI and Nvidia have equally performing products on similar platforms then we as customers will win due to price cuts.
We need more info on these cards before we can draw any conclusion and I hope they deliver the performance Nvidia is leading us to believe they will as well as taking video card technology to a whole new level. Now we wait for the first benchmarks on these cards to surface.
I think the L1 & L2 caching,384bit mem interface,decent clocks and it should easily beat out the 5870 not sure about the 5970 but it will be close.
I seem to remember the HD5800 pre-order prices to be very similar...
Don't judge the product until we know how much it actually costs, and how it actually performs.
I highly doubt they won't be competitive. If the GTX480 is more powerful than the HD5870, then it will cost more, however there will be lower cards that perform similar to the HD5870 that will likely cost the same. Just like the GTX200 series and the HD4000 series.
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