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nv finally came out with its new vid cards.. new egg dont seem to have them yet.. id like to see some ati match up bench marks my self..

well here ya go-..>

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/ ... sli_review

this photo and stats is from evga product page..>

http://www.evga.com/articles/00528/

Performance

NVIDIA GTX 480
725 MHz GPU
480 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC
Memory
1536 MB, 384 bit
3800 MHz (effective)
182.4 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, Mini-HDMI
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh
240Hz Max Refresh Rate
2048x1536 Max Analog
2560x1600 Max Digital

Requirements
Minimum of a 600 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 42 Amps.)
An available 6-pin PCI-E power connector and an available 8 pin PCI-E power connector

looks like you get some pipes on the 480gtx- i have not looked at the others yet- but you can get water cooling set up too..>





see ya..

Yep, got an e mail from EVGA yesterday. And I checked The Egg, they show the cards listed but "Out Of Stock" prices don't actually look too bad either. Time to start saving up my Rubles!

Well Obviously these NEW GTX 470/480 cards are Gonna ROCK!!

They are or seem very similar to the new ATI cards, especially the SIZE!! OMG!!

Insane, Look at one on a standard MoBo::





I think, not sure, that the NEW 600 dollar cards from ATI are 12.5 Inches long? Or so I've read...

The Specs are about the same, DX11, DDR5 RAM and so on. I'm personally sticking with my EvGa GTX 275 FTW

as long as I can,$$$$ issues, number one reason, hell if I had Bank I'd get the best nv CARD COMING OUT!!

HAVING SAID THAT, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH MY card, IT PREFORMS AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN


It's clocked Higher than any NV card period!! 713 is high!! For NV, they use other means as well to get there cards to FLY!!

In short I LOVE my Card, it plays any DAMN game at maxed out settings, Beautiful GFX card!!

I beat these new cards will be TOP Dawg for awhile anyhow, you know the drill. NV, ATU, NV, ATI and so on and so forth....

Back and forth, BTW if these new Cards from NV really ROCK, that's GREAT news for all the ATI fans, as prices will DROP hard!!

In both Camps.

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What's Really Going on

NV was working on the GTX 300 series, then they figured, F%$K it lets go BALLS out with the 400+ Series, in short skipping the 300 gen altogether.

Just my Theory is all

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When they come down to the 250 Range I'll think about it. DX10 and DX11 are no BIG deal really. DX10 has more features though when released,

DX11 added some more stuff, but hardy worth upgrading for, IMHO.

So long story shot NV is coming out with some great new cards, ATI will follow suit and this will always go on, Whatever ATI does, NV does and vise versus.

Can't wait to read the Customer Reviews of the NV 470/480 etc at NEW EGG!! Yee, Haaaa!! Let the games begin!!

Blue

NEW GEFORCE 470/480 REVIEW FROM GURU 3D


GeForce GTX 470 & 480 review
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn | Edited by George Panayiotou & Ian R Barling | Published: March 27, 2010

LINK FULL REVIEW ABOUT 25 Pages!! :: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-g ... 0-review/1

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The Verdict

Ouch! My fingers hurt from typing. Hey, you know what, I definitely like both the GeForce GTX 470 and 480. Performance wise things are looking very solid, even with early Beta drivers. Would this series have been released six months ago, everybody would have been hysterical with raving reviews. But yeah... there of course was this company called ATI who definitely got their stuff right at first try and ran away like a dog with a nice fresh meaty bone to chew on. The bar was set pretty high by ATI alright.

Admittedly while very strong, both the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 are not a slam dunk homerun compared to the fastest ATI 5800 series single GPU solutions. The reference Radeon HD 5870 keeps up with the GTX 480 pretty well on many occasions and a stinging fact is that its price is gradually dropping towards 429 USD, coming down from 469 USD (which is an interesting fact all by itself as it was launched at 399 USD). ATI reaps mucho benefits from the release of their Catalyst 10.3 driver (used in this review). The new driver brings significant performance boosts throughout the Radeon HD 5800 and 5900 series. Performance was enhanced in a lot of game titles. Would ATI not have released Catalyst 10.3 on time, then this review would have looked different. You'll probably notice a review or two out on the web using older drivers.

The fun thing is, in a couple of months the same thing will happen for NVIDIA with new drivers, 10% here, 7% there .. hey, that's how it works.

Even so, when we tally up the results out of all titles tested, the GeForce GTX 480 wins nearly everywhere except in Anno 1404 and ironically 3DMark Vantage. There are scenarios where the GTX 480 is very close to the 5870, but there are also scenarios where the GTX 480 completely and utterly kicks the Radeon HD 5870 in the proverbial nuts. What surprised me was the fact that say from 1280x1024 up-to 1920x1200 NVIDIA seems stronger than the competition. And at 2560x1600 things tend to equalize a much more.

When we focus solely on the GTX 480 now for a minute, substandard and topic of discussion obviously has to be the TDP -- the card when stressed will utilize nearly 250 Watts and that certainly is pretty steep power consumption, especially compared to ATI's Radeon 5870 with a TDP of only 188W. You are going to need a decently ventilated PC as the heat the GeForce GTX 480 produces is plentiful. Make no mistake, the card will get hot, very hot. So that's definitely something you need to keep in the back of your head.

In the end though, the GeForce GTX 480 is a graphics card that kicks ass, it is without doubt the fastest single GPU based graphics card on the block. The performance is grand and impressive and well, it's just a sick card to play all modern games with at any resolution or image quality preference.

The GeForce GTX 470 then -- obviously this card is lined up against ATI's Radeon HD 5850. It can compete with it quite well. Price wise it's definitely the more interesting of the two cards tested today. We expect that, once volume availability kicks in, this card will drop to roughly 300 USD. Performance wise we are looking at a product that positions itself smack down in the middle ATI's Radeon HD 5850 performance level and as such it's a really nice card to own. TDP wise at 215W we feel that power consumption is reasonable, and much like the GTX 480, we do also need to state that the heat output of the card currently is high but though not as high as the GTX 480. In fact we have a gut feeling that NVIDIA we reprogram the FAN RPM delta real soon, forcing the fan speed RPM at 70% which was not even every noisy, pushed the temperatures back to 80 Degrees C real quickly. Gaming wise the performance is obviously grand and the image quality it outputs is really high ranking as well. Money versus performance wise I'd say the GTX 470 is the winner of the two really.

As this article has shown, the newer software titles will benefit greatly from the new NVIDIA GeForce series 400 graphics cards. Metro 2033 is just stunning to play and when you look at the Just Cause 2 benchmarks all you can do is sit there, watch, with your mouth open. Stunning to look at and the performance is just brilliant combined with massive image quality settings. Consoles .. eat your heart out !

So there you have it you guys, temperatures at and TDP definitely can be considered trivial, but for most of you guys that is a non-issue, you are certainly looking at the fastest GPUs on the block in their respective category. Additional benefits for NVIDIA cards are of course PhysX which definitely is gaining more ground since the last year. It's a nice feature to have, sure... CUDA, we haven't talked about it much just yet. But obviously the GF100 GPUs are fully CUDA ready, in fact the architecture was designed with CUDA in mind. On the compute side of things we know one thing for sure, the GF100 should be impressive.

DX11 performance -- what we noticed in our test sessions is that the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 hold their ground really well in DX11 applications. Tessellation performance is downright terrific, the choice of putting a HW tesselator in each SM (shader cluster) definitely seems to be the right call to make architecture wise.

Alright, let me wrap up this conclusion. When we look purely at the image quality and brute game performance, that's where the GTX 470 ($349) and 480 ($499) shine, they are imposing, impressive and most definitely cards that will deliver a massive amount of performance. Brute force is what you'll receive with these products. We had a blast for sure testing them and drivers wise just did not run into any issues. Price vs performance wise we feel the GTX 480 is priced a notch too high though. And with a 150 USD difference that makes the winner of them both the GTX 470. The generic consensus has to be that the GeForce GTX 480 is definitely faster than the currently leading single GPU flagship from team red, the Radeon HD 5870. As such the GeForce GTX is more than convincing enough and makes a very strong impression. NVIDIA regains the performance crown and is back in the saddle like a cowboy after a harsh shootout, riding its horse into the sunset. Never ever has the graphics card arena been this close when it comes to sheer competition, and you know what ... we just love it.

Now bring on the board partner boards and let's get some more reviews out there. By next week you should see some decent availability in e-tail. And well .. perhaps May 2010 already for the first mid-range class series 400 products ?



Love the Heatpipes on that 480!! Whoa!! Both cards are prices great and will only come down, the NEW NV card Kick Major ASS!! But then ATI is holding it's own

then again, the NV cards stomp the best ATI cards is some games, others neck and neck and still a some ATI still leads, all arourd, you can't go wrong with either CAMP!!

I must say, thing would be much different had NV came out with the 470 and 480 Cards sooner!! Still, they are Excellent Cards and Quiet as Hell Oh and Blazing FAST!!



Well worth the READ!! IMHO!!

AGAIN BOTH CAMPS HAVE GREAT CARDS, MYSELF WOULD GO NV NOW.....D'Oh!!

Blue