Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 and 470 specs emerge

I more likely to go w/ ATI again just because prices on 5870s will probably come down some... plus i'm still happy with my 4870s

I'm not sure if anyone notices, but the TDP is insanely low. High end graphics for medium PSU systems? Truly nvidia is a blessing right now.

I guess you missed the specs for the comparable HD 5870 and 5850 cards, which are rated at 188 and 150 (respectively), as far as I can tell from posted specs throughout the web... Well below what these new nVidia cards are boasting. So, I guess ATi is the true blessing in the marketplace right now?

Haha and LOL,
1) a newborn child.....support for Haiti ....those are blessings. a graphics card is not.
2) see the post immediately below yours.

"Truly nvidia is a blessing right now"

christ man, at least try to veil yourself.

Hi Red, I was picking these late posts as clumsy attempt at sarcasm....or the product of an extreme case of fetal alcohol syndrome.

Hi D,
just hard to pass up , are they not? :rolleyes::wave:

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep... I Praythe Lord, Blah, Blah, Blah

And God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Spot, but most of all God bless Nvidia.... (Who else would provide me with an energy efficient video card, so I can piss my life away, without being hassled by my parents over the electric bill)

And when I can't get to sleep, I count dead hookers in GTA.

I liken it to my St.Paddy's day/night....

They're like the last few glasses of Jameson's in the wee small hours. You know full well that it's gonna cost you some brain cells and you'll feel bad later...but before you know it...ah, what the hell!...and you're suddenly looking at an empty glass- or cranium as the case may be.

EDIT: Think I might just have to avoid the forums when the benches come out. Could be a full-scale fanboy'n'troll war (handbags at ten paces). Pity AMD can't get Phenom II X6 and Magny-Cours out the same week....one week of petulant adolescence rather than a drawn out fanboy decathlon.

Or what's behind door number three, both....!

Although, this behavior might have been better than red's and mine. We spent the entire evening trying to alienate the entire Dominion of Canada.... Should we sing now....?

It will be interesting to see what the 5870-pricing will be?godowsky on

have a canuck on me....sung by Brian Johnson

oy, I just got an retro-active headache. reminded me of years ago in a pub called Claddagh's. The bartender became quite liberal with samples of every Jameson variation they had. I fell in love with a particularly smokey flavored one and after a $73 cab ride home, i spent the next 24 hanging on for dear life....and the throne......good times....good times....

....oh Canada...my home and......

im going to predict the future, i see : No stock available. Much higher prices. overcharging. psus blowing up. Dumb people complaining. (there is no stock, my card overheats, my psu died) nvidia shares fall. ati launches another overpriced card with lower performance and support for 14 displays. catalyst hotfix 45.b2 does not fix the random screen issues.

Am i the only one remembering Nvidia to have said "The 58xx series was slower then we expected" in excuse of not having the new 400 series ready?
And then after 6months they come up with this......
I think the 400 is slower then i expected tbh....

No the smartest thing to do is build gpus that don't overheat and artifact. Also keeping up with techonlogy and not giving an excuse that noone is using it.

WOW!

I'm in LoVe with these cards ....

the 500$ is humm, well nevermind, i'm putting this in my cart, now let's checkout!

cheers!

May all Nvidia supporters forgive me, as I am a proud owner of a GTX 260, but this GTX 480 is a piece of crap!

It reminds me of that old ATi blow dryer commonly known as the HD2900XT. It had a huge TDP rating relatively to other similar cards, and the card's performance was not proportional to its power consumption.

On the other hand, the GTX 470 looks more like a reasonable achievement for Nvidia. Will those extra 32 cores on the GTX 480 really make that much of a difference?

P.S. Wasn't Fermi supposed to have 512 cores? :/

Personally, I'll reserve judgement until some independant benchmarking is out and pricing is finalized...but that's just my take.

Having built a fairly large amount of systems for customers I would say you fall into a minority. Most people wouldn't know the TDP of either their CPU or GPU, nor would they know how the number is arrived at. Generally all that matters is if they can play game X, can they afford it, is it available and what plugs into it.
If TDP/performance was an issue for most then AMD wouldn't be selling very many Phenom II's, and they certainly wouldn't be looking at releasing a 140w version (975).

I doubt anyone who isn't under NDA can answer that definitively. The benches will be out in less than a week and you'll have no end of answers

The GPU (GF100) does indeed have 512 pixel shaders (or Cuda cores in nVidia PR bs-speak), but for the GTX 480 I think (my speculation here) one cluster is being fused off either because of defects, or a balancing act between getting the best core frequency and shader count numbers and stay within the TDP.
There are probably 512 core cards around but they will likely end up in Tesla/Quadro boards for workstation or HPC use. If nVidia/TSMC get their design better organised then a refreshed 512 core desktop part could emerge...possibly.

The MSRP may be $499 and 349 respectively, but expect to see at least a 10% mark-up initialy. I predict launch prices to be no less than $549 and 399.

I'm dying to see the reviews and benchmarks already. The speculation is killing me.