NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Final Specs & Pricing Revealed

If it is true that higher clocked versions are send for review & benchmarking, then nvidia has really fallen from grace.
 
Sounds like the GTX480 really has 512SP. Not that it matters much, the performance results are all I care about.
 
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Ugh, so we it's possible we won't see an actual review of the normal GTX480 until later?
 
Blackbird said:
I know this has been asked a million times, but is this going to an actual launch? I thought we were past the days of giving passes to companies that do paper launches? The prevailing attitude seems to be, well yea it's going to be a paper launch, or worse. But no one seems too upset about it.

If Nvidia has nothing in volume, then don't call it a launch. Call it a preview or whatever, and let us all know when actual volume shipping happens, in other words when it launches.
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So after the 2/22 Official Paper Launch Announcement Date Launch, looks like we'll be having the Official Paper Launch on 3/26 with the For Reals Actual Availability Launch sometime around 4/6.
 
Blackbird said:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-g...aled/8635.html

"* The intended GF100 has 512 SP clocked at 725/1450/1050MHz with 295W TDP. It should still be released in the future but just not now. For this launch, GTX 480 has 480 SP with clocks lowered to 700/1401/1848MHz at 250W TDP."

I wonder when the 512 SP version will get released.. anyone have a clue?
A swedish hardware news site said that it will get released in april.. i hope it's true.
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Well that explains why the specs have been all over the map. There's the "ultra", the regular 480, and the 470. The issue here is that I doubt it very seriously that the "ultra" will be available in any kind of volume.

This isn't sounding too good. So now the question is whether the regular 480 actually beats the 5870 or not.
 
kac77 said:
Well that explains why the specs have been all over the map. There's the "ultra", the regular 480, and the 470. The issue here is that I doubt it very seriously that the "ultra" will be available in any kind of volume.

This isn't sounding too good. So now the question is whether the regular 480 actually beats the 5870 or not.
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I wonder will it, didn't someone high up in Nvidia make a big song and dance about frame rates not been the be all and end all of graphics cards and they they were concentrating on cuda and computing power of the gpu. Think I read that in firing squad or tomshardware.

Hopefully a good review on the 26th from here will answer all our questions!!
 
so nothing out of the norm then. Smoke mirrors fud and still nothing substantial.

When they acutally have retail cards being tested (and more than likely laughed at) then i might actually look at them.

This "Hyping" has totally killed ANY respect i've had for NV. It started with rebranding, then the laptop fiasco, now this total fuskup of a product launch pretty much seals it for this year for NV.

They have no AMD chipsets. They cant make Intel ones due to licencing and pissing off Intel.

Fermi is pretty much DOA and with those thermals? Forget having an NV gfx laptop with Dx11.

Good job ION and Tecra are making profits. Its the one saving grace for NV
 
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mercyground said:
so nothing out of the norm then. Smoke mirrors fud and still nothing substantial.

When they acutally have retail cards being tested (and more than likely laughed at) then i might actually look at them.

This "Hyping" has totally killed ANY respect i've had for NV. It started with rebranding, then the laptop fiasco, now this total fuskup of a product launch pretty much seals it for this year for NV.

They have no AMD chipsets. They cant make Intel ones due to licencing and pissing off Intel.

Fermi is pretty much DOA and with those thermals? Forget having an NV gfx laptop with Dx11.

Good job ION and Tecra are making profits. Its the one saving grace for NV
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Lol @ this^^ you feel ok dude? Ya nvda is just horrible. They aren't making any money and they are just 1 big fail because your butthurt about their new geforce launch. Not like they gained market share or made any profit last qtr. Oh wait..... Not like they still have the lions share of the discrete gpu market. Oh wait...... Not like they are still sitting on mountains of cash..... Oh wait..... Not as if they are introducing a brand new architecture here and making large headway with tesselation for the future....oh wait. Not as if the commercial orders for fermi based tesla gpgpu cards aren't off the hook....oh wait.
Ya nvidia is just terribad bro, your right. What have these dumb fuckers been doing for the last few years? Fire em all.

On a more serious note I am waiting for the offical reviews like most of us normal people here and if its underwhelming I'm gonna pass on this round and wait for a summer/fall refresh. Not a big deal performance from my rig still rocks hard and I'm in no need for more anyway. Either way we will all live, I promise. Dec 11th 2012 ain't here yet. *wink wink*
 
Arklight said:
Gimmick?

3D Vision? By the time that has any relevance in games, the GTX 480 will be long gone.

Where is CUDA being used?

PhysX, so far, doesn't seem to do a whole lot (GRAW used it but I never really noticed that much of a difference).

Buying a GTX 480 card for all of these "features" is sort of silly since most of them aren't even really that prevalent in games and won't be (if at all) for a while to come.
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Good to know you followed his instructions.

And yes now you can insert the usual silly comments on how those are useless, gimmicks, etc....as anything your card does not have MUST be a gimmick right?
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So the GTX 480 will release with 480 SP? Considering the rumors on how bad yields were for the 512 SP version, this wouldn't surprise me.

I believe once Nvidia has refined their process more and gotten better yields, then they will release a GTX+ version that has the originally intended 512 SP.

What I would really like to see is GTX+ 480, with aforementioned 512 SP AND a full 512 bit bus with 2048MB of GDDR5 memory. Now THAT would be a drool-worthy video card!

5-10% boost doesn't sound very exciting to be honest. But we'll wait for solid benches of the GTX 480 to see what we're really getting.
 
With all due respect the benchmark images don't mean jack without system configuration data. Plus, they are inconsistent from one to the other.

Why bother posting them without a solid foundation to back them up? :confused:

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I'm looking forward to the refresh (for both camps) at the end of this year. Prices down...stock up...and not all of this speculation. :rolleyes:
 
Yes dontbeevil pls show the testbed and source. The results look way better thanwhat everybody else is puplishing, meaning you against the rest ( of the world) or you are a supermole or to much time on your hand with office2007
 
MorgothPl said:
From what I heard, the highlyclocked version will be sent as review samples... but the cutdown version will be on shelves at release date. The "Ultra" will also be aviable for purchases, but some time later.

If it's true, then people gonna get pissed, but I'll be able to confirm it, once I get the sample next week.
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Ok hehe.
If that's true then i'll just wait for the "ultra", i wont get that pissed as long as the ultra comes within a few months :p
 
Savoy said:
Lol @ this^^ you feel ok dude? Ya nvda is just horrible. They aren't making any money and they are just 1 big fail because your butthurt about their new geforce launch. Not like they gained market share or made any profit last qtr. Oh wait..... Not like they still have the lions share of the discrete gpu market. Oh wait...... Not like they are still sitting on mountains of cash..... Oh wait..... Not as if they are introducing a brand new architecture here and making large headway with tesselation for the future....oh wait. Not as if the commercial orders for fermi based tesla gpgpu cards aren't off the hook....oh wait.
Ya nvidia is just terribad bro, your right. What have these dumb fuckers been doing for the last few years? Fire em all.

On a more serious note I am waiting for the offical reviews like most of us normal people here and if its underwhelming I'm gonna pass on this round and wait for a summer/fall refresh. Not a big deal performance from my rig still rocks hard and I'm in no need for more anyway. Either way we will all live, I promise. Dec 11th 2012 ain't here yet. *wink wink*
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Lets see...

Screwed up with Dx10. Have only JUST got with the plan and released DX10.1 cards. (all rebranded).

FAILED. Yes FAILED horribly to deliver DX11 cards. Screwed up their 40nm push. (Way too hot. Shitty yeilds. Piss poor execution).

This is what happens when PR overrules Engineering.

I dont care what you say. NV screwed this up royally. We are now paying for that.

With regard to laptop market? I'm seeing alot more ATI based laptops. The OEM's are PISSED at NV. Changing TDPs and that laptop fiasco leaves bad taste in their mouths. I dont see how you can get reasonable tdp on nv's new dx11 range in a laptop that wont have the living crap kicked out of it by a compariable Ati card.

I really dont want the return of 600 bucks cards. Do you? If you are prepared to pay that kind of money... then you are the same idiots that buy the 1000dollar Extreme chips. Money over sense.
 
Not sure if this has been posted anywhere yet but a search of some chinese websites found some more vendors boxes of Fermi. Check it out with Google Translate.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.sina.com.cn%2Fh%2F2010-03-20%2F10221286109.shtml&sl=zh-CN&tl=en

From the Asus packaging, we can see that two of these products is the overclocked version of product, and joined the Voltage Tweak (simple voltage regulator) technology, which is the first application of this technology in the N card, players can adopt the technology the card to a higher frequency of ultra-and thus become even more extreme performance.
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mercyground said:
Lets see...

Screwed up with Dx10. Have only JUST got with the plan and released DX10.1 cards. (all rebranded).

FAILED. Yes FAILED horribly to deliver DX11 cards. Screwed up their 40nm push. (Way too hot. Shitty yeilds. Piss poor execution).

This is what happens when PR overrules Engineering.

I dont care what you say. NV screwed this up royally. We are now paying for that.

With regard to laptop market? I'm seeing alot more ATI based laptops. The OEM's are PISSED at NV. Changing TDPs and that laptop fiasco leaves bad taste in their mouths. I dont see how you can get reasonable tdp on nv's new dx11 range in a laptop that wont have the living crap kicked out of it by a compariable Ati card.

I really dont want the return of 600 bucks cards. Do you? If you are prepared to pay that kind of money... then you are the same idiots that buy the 1000dollar Extreme chips. Money over sense.
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I really don't like people like you. DX 10.1 hasn't been used at all. Second these "idiots" that buy the $1000 Extreme Chips, and the $600 are probably smarter then you since they can apparently afford items like that. There isn't even any plans for the 480 to be $600.
 
Banko said:
I really don't like people like you. DX 10.1 hasn't been used at all. Second these "idiots" that buy the $1000 Extreme Chips, and the $600 are probably smarter then you since they can apparently afford items like that. There isn't even any plans for the 480 to be $600.
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Wrong. Nv begged MS to cripple DX10 as their cards couldnt do the full DX10 original spread. This resulted in DX10 being laughable. They couldnt even get the damn vista drivers sorted properly hence the backtracking on removing video drivers from the core proper.

The sooner NV stops PRing its way throu life and goes back to ENGINEERING the better.

I dont require a spaceheater in my computer thanks.
 
It's nice to get here late and see only the final version of posted specs, and see everyone's comments about the earlier numbers...

I've taken everything pretty much with a grain of salt so far, so it's possible I missed something... I remember reading about the two-display limit per card, meaning SLI was required for nFinity. However, the pictured card does have two DVI ports and a (mini?) HDMI port. Still limited to two displays, or will this allow for three on one card? If it does allow for three, that's HDCP support and no adapter too.
 
mercyground said:
voltage tweak? Hmm... thats gonna break the 300W standard. Bye bye warrenties.
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I like the sound of it. All the speculation of power draw/performance bottlenecks actually turns into a positive if the card can transform into a screamer when the user "violates the limit."

Which warranty are you referring to? The motherboard warranty would only be violated if the card drew too much power through the slot, which is why we have supplemental power connectors. The PSU? Only if total system power draw exceeds the recommended spec of the PSU, which has nothing really to do with over-volting the graphics card. The graphics card warranty? Not if the manufacturer provides the feature themselves and advertises it on the box.

I got a great deal on an open-box GTX 260 a few weeks ago and was concerned about the power load on my formerly 8800GT powered system and my 500 watt PSU. So I finally broke down and got a Ryobi power meter at Home Depot. I have 4 hard drives, two opticals, and a Yorkfield quad CPU and I can't get the total system draw much over 300 watts no matter how hard I try to push it. If I decide to throw the 8800GT back in for PhysX, I have headroom to spare.

So take a user who has a 650W or up PSU and gets a 480. What are they risking if they push it up a few dozen watts in exchange for a 50% performance boost? I'd do it in a heartbeat if I was in that situation.
 
Hulahoops said:
Doubt considering there recent cook you GPU driver that you could claim the first.
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This is true and it does indeed dampen my view of nv software quality control, but I my claim is holistic in nature and rest more on the non-windows support as well as the good overall engineering support nv offers.
 
I do have to agree that there is to much blanket or selective PR. Someone mentioned that he is going to wait for another few month for the ultra version, why? This is exactly the mindset the PR wants you to have...to believe in nvidia to deliver the goods somewhere in the future.

They will do, over the past years both companys had ups and down. But they may have to review their strategy, so far ATIs one of smaller, more efficient chips does seem to pay off. In comparison nvidia seems to go for the bigger is better approach, ignoring the constraints of their process.
 
If the 470 comes within 5% of the 5870 and sells for 349 it will be a win imo. The higher end cards like the 480 will always carry the higher premium and might not be worth it to some.
 
QuadMe said:
If the 470 comes within 5% of the 5870 and sells for 349 it will be a win imo. The higher end cards like the 480 will always carry that higher premium and might not be worth it to some.
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Even if its only 5-10% faster than the 5850 its not a terrible deal at $350, considering the 5850 is currently selling for over $300.
 
well 6 more days until we are good to find out but so far it looks underwhelming to say the least......
 
QuadMe said:
Yeah. It will be interesting to see what ati does too.
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I'm keep hoping they force retailers to come back down to the original MSRP for the cards. Though they probably won't unless these cards really perform well.
 
heatlesssun said:
How is this possible? It only has 300W to draw from in the first place without more power connectors.
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It is possible to draw more power without more power connector but that would be very dangerous since the current draw would be higher and it would cause fire.
 
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