Nvidia geforce gtx 480 and 470 Price and Specs
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-and-470-specs-and-pricing-emerge/
Can I say finally?
We're only a week away from their grand unveiling, but already we've got word of the specs for NVIDIA's high end GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards. Priced at $499, the 480 will offer 480 shader processors, a 384-bit interface to 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 RAM, and clock speeds of 700MHz, 1,401MHz, and 1,848MHz for the core, shaders and memory, respectively. The 470 makes do with 446 SPs, slower clocks, and a 320-bit memory interface, but it's also priced at a more sensible $349. The TDPs of these cards are pretty spectacular too, with 225W for the junior model and 295W for the full-fat card. Sourced by VR Zone, these numbers are still unofficial, but they do look to mesh well with what we already know of the hardware, including a purported 5-10 percent benchmarking advantage for the GTX 480 over ATI's HD 5870. Whether the price and power premium is worth it will be up to you and the inevitable slew of reviews to decide.
Can I say finally?
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Power consumption seems really high, and was expecting the card to have 2gb of vram, not 1536mb.
Doesn't sound powerful enough either to be worth upgrading from a 9800gtx (which is what I currently use).
I'm still running an 8500GTX so don't feel bad :P
Something seems a little too high about those power needs. I'm thinking those are a little off?
@ polyhertz, it might not seem it but that card is at least 2x as fast as the 9800gtx, i went from the 8800gtx to a 285 and i was blown away i was getting nearly 4 times the framerate in crysis. But for graphics work, i have to say there is little improvement, maya still acts like a punk when you start working on meshes over 500k poly and still loads textures and displays them really slowly. but my performance in unreal did go up i guess, although the 8800 was nothing to complain about.
@ arshlevon how do you feel about their control panel and drivers though, they have given me so much trouble. I keep a few gaming pcs around the house and one is using a new ati card, it preforms absolutely great and was cheap, but the control panel i so bad. First of all it shows up in a different way on each os ive installed it on, even changing between 32 and 64 bit there was differences. And it was really a frustrating experience trying to get it to recognize my plasma properly, ended up requiring a hack to make it show up at full res. Whereas my nvida control panel has never had any issue with any display ive used with it. I will admit that now days the two companies are more even, so that is really the only issue ive had with ati. have you had any similar issues?
I got a 9800GT 1gig vram, I'm probably going to skip the 200 series cause I don't want to have to upgrade again for DX11, I can wait a year or so for prices to drop or a better line of cards.
Will anyone buy them or be able to buy them?
http://www.evga.com/default.asp
So while these cards arent really anything excited, there is a good chance i will get one of them before i go over to ATI.
When are those due? I have to pay for electricity here. Inefficient power hungry setups are ludicrous.
More or less just rumors at this point. Earliest, late this year. I'm interested to see how this affects card prices around the spectrum - will AMD lower their prices? I would think so, since they hiked the prices up after launch due nVidia being late with their cards.
Personally I feel that these new Nvidia cards aren't that great. I mean, yay for being 15-20% faster in the best case scenario but when you factor in 100+ bucks USD and over 100+ watts in power consumption...not worth it to me. Granted, I don't have money for an upgrade and don't need one: my 4870 works like a charm in 3D apps and games. I've never really had a problem with AMD so far on the driver side either. I think those days are pretty much gone minus crossfire setups.
Not what I expected from Nvidia considering they were six months late to the DX11 party. I'll stick with my GTX285 for another year at least.
I was really looking forward to these new cards for awhile, but it looks like I'll just wait to see how people start using Cuda and see if its worth it at all to upgrade from my 4850.
My ATI 5850 works despite my greatest fears great with Maya and Photoshop, ATI is working hard on there drivers lately, not anything near the desater i had back then with my Radeon 9800 Pro. About nVidia well nothing surprising there i think its a good card still, if you want such an power hungry loud beast. I personally gonna stay away from nVidia in the future i had a lot awefull troubles with nVidias drivers on my GeForce 8800, not to mention how unbeliveable shit my nForce board was, long long trust nicely wasted.
+1 Unlike CUDA, its entirely open source and backed by more than one company.