Friday, March 19th 2010
XFX GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 Pictured
Here they are folks, pictures of the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 complete with partner branding. These come from XFX, both sticking to NVIDIA's reference design. The XFX GeForce GTX 480 comes with the usual feature set of 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory, 480 CUDA cores, and a broad feature set that includes support for DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround, and 3-way SLI. The GeForce GTX 470 retains this feature set, albeit with 448 CUDA cores, and 1280 MB of GDDR5 memory. The two will be released on the 26th of March.
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68 Comments on XFX GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 Pictured
there is no doubt they will be faster .. theyre being released 2 quarters behind their competition. what people fail to realize is since it has taken them so long to release and the speculated performance isn't that far over what ATI has already been selling.
not to mention the power draw, price and most likley the temps at what these cards run at I don't see how someone can go slam $500+ down for one and be excited and happy about the purchase.
Trust me I would have loved for Nv to come out with this spectacular card that totally crushes anything out on the market but for being 6-8 months late to the dance Nv sure isn't showing anything stellar IMO.
I have money to blow any day of the week but I cannot see myself forking over $500 for something that will only SLIGHTLY outperform what I currently have in which I paid $400 for. I'd have paid $600 if it was a single GPU that was 25-35% faster than a 5870.. now that would be something for us Pc dudes to be excited about.. this fermi shit is a big disappointment and 5-10% gain wasnt worth the wait and to release the 480 @ $500 is a slap in the face.. if the 5-10% figures are true then the price is a friggin joke.
hopefully after reviews I can edit this post and say something positive but as for now I cannot think of one Pro.
Second - looks awesome, I suspect ATI will now start lowering some prices, which is good for me :)
looks alone i like this card by default.
You will not see an X2 card from Nvidia with this current revision. Even if they cram to underclocked 470 chips onto a PCB the power consumption would be well over the PCI-e specification of 300 watts. And the heat generated would be insane.
You fanboys really crack me up. I own cards from both camps, a GTX295 and an 4870X2. So I am not a fanboy of either. But I would be damned to buy these gtx 4xx cards until they can reduce the die, increase the core count and decrease the price. And also get rid of their incompetent management. But that is not the issue here.
My current setup can shit on two 470s lol :laugh:
And which fanboy are you referring to? :confused:
dual fermi card = at least 400 watt, if they make card from 470 chip, of course with some kind of tweaking
300watts for 1 5970 DUAL GPU
or
275wats for 1 GTX480 - Single GPU -
So even if you stuck 2, 470 cores clocked down on one PCB you would most likley be approaching 800+ watts for a quad SLI solution. That setup would not be faster than your Dual 5970's. It would also take more power. You think the 5970's generate heat?...Times your current heat output by 2 with these babies in quad or Tri SLI.
Maybe in the next chip revision they will have something to compete with in the dual GPU range but then ATI will most likley have the 6xxx series out.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/EAH5970/29.html
Not only WILL the power consumption be higher then the ATI equivelent. The performance will drop off as well. There is no way the are putting two 480's on one PCB. They would have a hard time with cooling with two 470's. and even then they would have to clock them down. Then would still be higher than a 5970 for power consumption.
So with the current architecture a dual GPU card from Nvidia could not compete with the 5970 right now. It's just a fact. It would be to expensive, too hot and draw way too much and most likley render a lower performance then two 480's in SLI.
Your right it's all speculation and we will not know until one is made. But I just can't logically see one until we see a die shrink.
I have been a huge fan of the Nvida camp ever since the 8800GTX, but they suck this time. I'd like to see what they do for the GTX485.
Do a google search before you make yourself look ridiculous like that. :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
PS The cards really do look very good. Kudos to nvidia for spending some time on the stock cooler. However, I think they forced themselves into it b/c these cards are gonna be crazy HOT!