Thursday, February 25th 2010
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GeForce GTX 400 Series Performance Expectations Hit the Web
A little earlier this month, NVIDIA tweeted that it would formally unveil the GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards, NVIDIA's DirectX 11 generation GPUs, at the PAX East gaming event in Boston (MA), United States, on the 26th of March. That's a little under a month's time from now. In its run up, sources that have access to samples of the graphics cards seem to be drawing their "performance expectations" among other details tricking in.
Both the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 graphics cards are based on NVIDIA's GF100 silicon, which physically packs 512 CUDA cores, 16 geometry units, 64 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface. While the GTX 480 is a full-featured part, the GTX 470 is slightly watered-down, with probably 448 or 480 CUDA cores enabled, and a slightly narrower memory interface, probably 320-bit GDDR5. Sources tell DonanimHaber that the GeForce GTX 470 performs somewhere between the ATI Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. This part is said to have a power draw of 300W. The GeForce GTX 480, on the other hand, is expected to perform on-par with the GeForce GTX 295 - at least in existing (present-generation) applications. A recent listing by an online store for a pre-order, put the GTX 480 at US $699.
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DonanimHaber
Both the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 graphics cards are based on NVIDIA's GF100 silicon, which physically packs 512 CUDA cores, 16 geometry units, 64 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface. While the GTX 480 is a full-featured part, the GTX 470 is slightly watered-down, with probably 448 or 480 CUDA cores enabled, and a slightly narrower memory interface, probably 320-bit GDDR5. Sources tell DonanimHaber that the GeForce GTX 470 performs somewhere between the ATI Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. This part is said to have a power draw of 300W. The GeForce GTX 480, on the other hand, is expected to perform on-par with the GeForce GTX 295 - at least in existing (present-generation) applications. A recent listing by an online store for a pre-order, put the GTX 480 at US $699.
114 Comments on GeForce GTX 400 Series Performance Expectations Hit the Web
Perhaps Bta can clarify whether this is correct?
No way that's true. GTX 470 is almost twice the card my GTX 280 and I lose 12% to 5850 and 23% to 5870. If they don't get 25% more performance out of it, then it's a driver problem.
I'd imagine that the 470 will be between the 5850 and 5870 and the 480 in some bmarks will be on par with the 5970 and in other bmarks it will be around GTX295 performance.
But both cards are going to be power hogs, without a doubt.
my 2 cents.
Given the specifications, and thinking hypothetically, there would also be plenty of room for nvidia to offer heavily downclocked cards for mid-range performance? I guess it all depends on what we don't know, how these chips are binning.
I think ATI fanboys got that out of there system 6 months ago when the other firmi thread was started, besides that are all probley too busy being immersed in DX11 and pushing GPUs to new limits, or prehaps they are just content that they alredy own the most powerfull GPU's on the market todate :)
if the 470 was like a 5870 and the 480 fell between a 5870 and a 5970 then it would a but make more sense.. but as it stands the price/performance (which is speculated) is just plain ruh-tarded...
@ $699 msrp this means they'll probbaly sell for 749+ if the supply suffers as ati's did at launch
but.. coming so late in the game when the competition has already spread through the market like a virus and availibility is now + the price is great why come out into game slinging a hot hot hot power hungry $700.00 card?
hmm maybe they just know people are going to buy them regardless then the entry level mainstream dx11 cards arrive later... LOL NV is smart!
TBH I can't believe that so many people are taking that number so seriously. But every rumor about Fermi is being taken seriously isn't it? That's something I can't understand and has never happened before tbh.
im sure around april we will all be truly informed... this is all just hype before the big show.. just like before the ATi stuff was released then the "5800 series below expecatations" thread was birthed
I do agree that the Nvidia card I use now was overpriced at the time compared to ATI in terms of say FPS. I have had heaps of fun from it though.
This strategy worked well for ATI. Perhaps nV actually scrapped their whole design in 2009 and have something new up their sleeve and hence the protracted delay.
Let's hope something exciting is launched in May and those 300W figures are bogus.
Anyway as a GPU fan I cannot wait to see what this thing can do. Its fun to make fun of Nvidia but who knows how this puppy will do. It could be epic for all we know.