Thursday, March 18th 2010
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Reference Design Card Final Design Pictured
Many would be familiar with these pictures of a generic graphics card based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU which was spotted at this year's CES. A company slide sourced by DonanimHaber reveals the final iteration of NVIDIA's reference design GeForce GTX 480 graphics accelerator, and what it looks like from the outside. A set of slightly more recent pictures showed its cooling assembly from inside. The protruding heat pipes intrigued us as they were inconsistent with the cooling assembly on the card NVIDIA showed off at CES, which we then believed to be the top-end GTX 480 part. The company slide confirms what the cooling assembly looks like when it's all put together.
The cooler is highly ventilated, with vents all over the cooler's shroud. There are vents on the top, on the sides, apart from the usual obverse fan air intake. To increase its intake, the PCB is further cut to help draw air from the reverse-side of the PCB. The cooler's four large (we reckon 8 mm thick) heat pipes protrude about a centimeter out of the card's periphery, increasing its height by that much. The cooler itself respects the 2-slot thickness limit which is most conventional. A table in the slide also confirms some details we already know: the card has 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide interface. It has a TDP of under 300W, which a recent report reveals to be a hairbreadth under 300W, at 296W. Power is drawn in from an 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI-E power connector. The card is 10.5 inches long, the same length as its reference-design GeForce GTX 280. The card supports 3-way SLI. It will be unveiled on the 26th of March.
Source:
DonanimHaber
The cooler is highly ventilated, with vents all over the cooler's shroud. There are vents on the top, on the sides, apart from the usual obverse fan air intake. To increase its intake, the PCB is further cut to help draw air from the reverse-side of the PCB. The cooler's four large (we reckon 8 mm thick) heat pipes protrude about a centimeter out of the card's periphery, increasing its height by that much. The cooler itself respects the 2-slot thickness limit which is most conventional. A table in the slide also confirms some details we already know: the card has 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide interface. It has a TDP of under 300W, which a recent report reveals to be a hairbreadth under 300W, at 296W. Power is drawn in from an 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI-E power connector. The card is 10.5 inches long, the same length as its reference-design GeForce GTX 280. The card supports 3-way SLI. It will be unveiled on the 26th of March.
137 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Reference Design Card Final Design Pictured
I wonder if there will be 3d mark optimisations* this time?
*blatant image quality reducing hacks in forceware
They have to be out of their friggin minds coming out with something this power hungry and this hot.. 7-8 months after ATI.. technology is supposed to advance overtime, this looks nothing like advancement.
The only thing we know right now is the Fermi will be a damn hot card.
Leaked Fermi 470, 480 specs and pricing:
470 TDP 225 US$349,
480 TDP 295 US$499.
Single Fermi GPU 480 TDP is close to TDP of ATI dual 5870 GPU the 5970. The performance of Nvidia Fermi 470 VS ATI 5850 and 480 VS 5870 is 5% - 10% faster than ATI respectfully.
vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-final-specs--pricing-revealed/8635.html
Competition drives innovation, performance and best value for consumers ;)
That TDP is disgusting. It's also running way behind schedule and with lower yields and a partially disabled flagship chip. I'm all for healthy competition and choice, but nVidia missed it's mark this time. I hope they can make up some lost ground with their mid and low range options. Also what happened to the 3xx series? They just get cut?
NEED BIGGER PSU BLAH BLAH
30-40C HOTTER BLAH BLAH
$100-$200 MORE $$ BLAH BLAH
6-7 MONTHS MORE WAITING BLAH BLAH BLAH
HIGHER POWER BILL BLAH BLAHH
HOTTER CASE HOTTER BEDROOM BLAH BLAH
naysayers!!
50% more power
50% more heat
probably 300% more noise
But thanks for reminding me that there's going to be a moderator up my @ss if I post something offensive. Not that I was going to... ;)
Quiet as hell? I have to run the HD5870 we have at work at 100% fan speed to keep temps under 80°C, and it sounds like a damn leaf blower.I don't see what the HD48x0 series has to do with the power draw on the HD58x0 series. Furmark does max out the load on the GPU, that is why we are looking at the Maximum power draw, it does it for every GPU, it isn't like it is unfair for ATi cards...
I'll take 1 please.