NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Reference Design Card Final Design Pictured

[CDdude55]

I'm still getting one.

Was going to do SLI with these, but i guess not.(I'll probably SLI two GTX 470's)

 

[KainXS]

if that heatsink can handle a 296, that must be one helluva heatsink, . . . . and a 1.8A fan to boot, god damn

and I can't see overclocking 1 470 to match 1 GTX480

 

[human_error]

dear lord that's one hot card, nvidia have really got some problems if their single gpu card outputs as much as ati's dual gpu card. Of course this wouldn't matter if it performed the same, but from leaked benchies it looks to be in 5870 territory, not the 5970...

 

[KainXS]

Edit:

I'm just sad because I can think of nothing to justify the power consumption to me.

I thought nvidia had 40nm down but it seems that they didn't learn enough with the GT21X cards to me.

 

[pr0n Inspector]

One heatpipe goes sideway inside the heatsink. If you have seen an GTX260/280 cooler you will know this.

 

[kid41212003]

So, there will be no dual gpu card.

 

[Selene]

Its said 00watt wich means under 300watts.
But yea its going to use some power, we new that, stop acting like its some thing big.
If your runing SLI on a GT200 or better card you can bet you need a good PSU, the days of 400-500watt PSU are over, if you want the best you have to feed it.

 

[newtekie1]

300w doesn't seem that bad for power consumption, the HD5780 was at 212w. So 88w more for the GTX480 really isn't that terrible...

I'm interested in what the GTX470's power consumption is, as I have a feeling it will be closer to the HD5870 numbers in both power consumption and performance(and hopefully price).

 

[AlienIsGOD]

3 way sli !?!?! ya if u want to burn ur house down or cook a meal with ur computer

 

[btarunr]

I'm interested in what the GTX470's power consumption is, as I have a feeling it will be closer to the HD4870 numbers in both power consumption and performance(and hopefully price).

GTX 470's is around 225W.

 

[simlariver]

157% power consumption of the HD5870 and Nvidia is positioning their card to have a "slight edge" in "most benchmarks and games".

fail fail fail.

With such a high Power consumption, OC will be limited and the board will be way too hot anyway. This is just a generation to skip. I bet ATI will murder the GTX 4xx series at launch with price-drops and neat-future products announcements. It's about time for HD6000 or HD5890, is it ? lol

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

mora loop for tri sli?

 

[jessicafae]

I know this is a major wish, but I really hope the 5850 drops to $200 and the 5870 to $300. That or ATI announces something interesting ... like say .... a process shrink to GlobalFoundaries 32nm SOI along with less heat, higher clocks and cheaper manufacturing costs. maybe....

 

[Mussels]

I know this is a major wish, but I really hope the 5850 drops to $200 and the 5870 to $300. That or ATI announces something interesting ... like say .... a process shrink to GlobalFoundaries 32nm SOI along with less heat, higher clocks and cheaper manufacturing costs. maybe....

it depends on nvidias prices. If Nv have high prices, ATI will just launch a refresh at slightly higher prices than they have now.

If Nv has lower prices, ATI will do a sudden price drop to beat them in sales, and when sales die off they'll release the new refresh at roughly the prices the previous cards were at prior to the drop (like they did with 4870 - dropped from $300 au to $200 au, then the 4890 came out around $300 au)

 

[xrealm20]

so, they are at the pci-e spec limit of 300w -- right?

 

[Yellow&Nerdy?]

Its said 00watt wich means under 300watts.

If the TDP would actually be reasonable, lets say 248W, they would of written <250W. It's an ancient sales trick. Like when you go buy stuff, the price never ends in full tens or hundreds, but e.g. 99$, cause then they can say: "Get this and that for under 100 bucks!"

I think the estimate of 296W in the article is probably quite accurate. Anyways, it will be between 290-300.

 

[Yellow&Nerdy?]

300w doesn't seem that bad for power consumption, the HD5780 was at 212w. So 88w more for the GTX480 really isn't that terrible...

Actually, it's very terrible. And btw, the 5870 has a TDP of 188W, not 212. That would be 108W bigger TDP. But what's more worrying is, that Nvidias single-GPU card produces as much heat as ATIs dual-GPU card. The dual Fermi better have one magical cooler or otherwise it will melt...

 

[btarunr]

If the TDP would actually be reasonable, lets say 248W, they would of written <250W. It's an ancient sales trick. Like when you go buy stuff, the price never ends in full tens or hundreds, but e.g. 99$, cause then they can say: "Get this and that for under 100 bucks!"

I think the estimate of 296W in the article is probably quite accurate. Anyways, it will be between 290-300.

If the board power was 289W, NVIDIA would have written it as "<290W".

 

[Lionheart]

Im so sick of talkin about fermi, I just wanna see benchies, I dont know why but i have a feeling these cards will perform good, and really good in tessellated DX11 games.

 

[jessicafae]

it depends on nvidias prices. If Nv have high prices, ATI will just launch a refresh at slightly higher prices than they have now.

If Nv has lower prices, ATI will do a sudden price drop to beat them in sales, and when sales die off they'll release the new refresh at roughly the prices the previous cards were at prior to the drop (like they did with 4870 - dropped from $300 au to $200 au, then the 4890 came out around $300 au)

you are right, but I was wishing. Most likely NV prices will be high, ATI will most likely not lower prices on the current 40nm 5xxx series at all since it costs so much to make the chips on TSMC's 40nm process. I am still hoping for a summer process shrink to GF 32nm for the evergreen family along with lower initial pricing for the refreshed products since they will be SO much cheaper to make (great yields and more chips per wafer).

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

Im so sick of talkin about fermi, I just wanna see benchies, I dont know why but i have a feeling these cards will perform good, and really good in tessellated DX11 games.

fermi: the fairy everyone talks about but noone has seen

 

[Zubasa]

fermi: the fairy everyone talks about but noone has seen

Fermi: The Invisible Pink Unicorn GPU

 

[Animalpak]

Looks like a real beast, reminds some HIS coolers cards.

So the next step... What about the dual GPU of them ?

Will be two GTX 470 or 480 in single PCB ?

 

[cadaveca]

If the board power was 289W, NVIDIA would have written it as "<290W".

Power is precisely where expected. I dunno why everyone is so shocked...150% of 5870 transisitors(3 bil vs Cypress' 2.1bil), on the same process, generally means 150% the power consumption...

Now, if performance of 480 is only 15% more than 5870, with 150% transistors, and 150% power consumption, there's a HUGE issue here. If it gets 150% of 5870, or even 140%, pricing wars will ensue. Everyone better cross thier finger that it's the latter, and not the former.

 

[Zubasa]

Looks like a real beast, reminds some HIS coolers cards.

So the next step... What about the dual GPU of them ?

Will be two GTX 470 or 480 in single PCB ?

That will be a GTX 460 Dual at best :shadedshu