NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Final Specs & Pricing Revealed

I just want these cards to be something special. To drag the graphics card industry forward to a new level and force ATI to work hard to release something special in turn.

In the end of the day, that's the best thing for us :)
 
necrophile said:
Oh dear at the leapfrogging comments. Late, does not equal on a different timeline or road map. It means late.

Of course nvidia would have "tacked on" dx11 if they could have easily but they couldn't. Unlike ATI who obviously could. Wonder who had the better thought out architecture.

Of course that would be wrong as it makes nvidia look like they screwed up which they can't have.
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Better thought out architecture? Nvidia is aiming for a general purpose GPU computing chip that can also do amazing graphics. :p
-- Let's see what happens when GF100 launches
 
My post clearly was not referring to the GF100. It was in reference to the 8 and 200 series which seemingly cannot easily be modified as the ATI ones can.

ATI AFAIK, have not had to do a complete redesign to make theirs work, I do not believe nvidia have not done the same out of choice but necessity.
 
Three different sources with matching Crysis Warhead benchmarks:

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shansoft said:
dont think that is confirm, sounds like a FUD to me...
unless its officially announced, I talk it as a rumor...
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Well, the rumors of a slow/hot GTX 480 should sound like FUD to you too then, eh?

Jaredpace, those benches may be close to eachother, but I trust Felixx of Beyond3D a lot more as he's been very accurate in the past:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1411264&postcount=4463
OK, some first hand info, but my source is still under NDA, so not much in-depth details.

GTX470 is ~10% faster than stock HD5870, benched in Crysis.
The noise level under load is similar to GTX285 -- noticeable but not irritating.
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Yah i believe fellix too, but he doesn't say what resolution. Probably 30" with AA for 10% faster
 
Blazemore said:
Been reported.
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Yeah, I reported it too right off.

Fresh off the rumor mills (very much a rumor) from Czech forum by a poster "OBR" who has often posted reliable rumors in the past (part posted here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=249263 part on the czech forum which I can't read due to language barrier) is that the GTX 480 may be BIOS unlockable to 512 cores as they didn't have time to fuse the shaders off physically due to the last-minute spec change, and that they overclock well. He claims per someone on XS that he has a BIOS in-hand that does so.

That would be extremely interesting... :eek: .
 
GoldenTiger said:
Yeah, I reported it too right off.

Fresh off the rumor mills (very much a rumor) from Czech forum by a poster "OBR" who has often posted reliable rumors in the past (part posted here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=249263 part on the czech forum which I can't read due to language barrier) is that the GTX 480 may be BIOS unlockable to 512 cores as they didn't have time to fuse the shaders off physically due to the last-minute spec change, and that they overclock well. He claims per someone on XS that he has a BIOS in-hand that does so.

That would be extremely interesting... :eek: .
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whats the back out it they dont work and flash the old BIOS back? and will that turn off the right ones again
risky move on whats going to be a 600 buck card or more at launch
 
GoldenTiger said:
Yeah, I reported it too right off.

Fresh off the rumor mills (very much a rumor) from Czech forum by a poster "OBR" who has often posted reliable rumors in the past (part posted here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=249263 part on the czech forum which I can't read due to language barrier) is that the GTX 480 may be BIOS unlockable to 512 cores as they didn't have time to fuse the shaders off physically due to the last-minute spec change, and that they overclock well. He claims per someone on XS that he has a BIOS in-hand that does so.

That would be extremely interesting... :eek: .
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6800 vanilla to 6800 GT part II. That would be awesome.
 
Who going to be the ginnie pig if this happens to be true. That's a whole bottle of awesome sauce.
 
GoldenTiger said:
Yeah, I reported it too right off.

Fresh off the rumor mills (very much a rumor) from Czech forum by a poster "OBR" who has often posted reliable rumors in the past (part posted here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=249263 part on the czech forum which I can't read due to language barrier) is that the GTX 480 may be BIOS unlockable to 512 cores as they didn't have time to fuse the shaders off physically due to the last-minute spec change, and that they overclock well. He claims per someone on XS that he has a BIOS in-hand that does so.

That would be extremely interesting... :eek: .
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Problem is that OBR is known NV fanboy and he often spread whatever NV PR tell him - in past 6 months he created lots of articles about how awesome Fermi will be (performance like 5970, reviews before xmax 2009 for sure etc.) - several of them were soon deleted by his superiors because it was just BS.

Long story short: Charlie is much more trustworthy source than OBR.
 
Heard today that there will NOT be a B1 spin later this year. A3 is it.
 
So they decided to cut the shaders to lower the TDP and get a higher yield at the same time? I guess that it is better to move on to the next generation than putting out new B1 spin. Maybe when the yield gets better they can release a limited number of Ultra cards.
 
I heard that the extreme low yields were just BS, and that Charlie just picked out one specific part of a statement to make that fact.

These seem to be ok prices, but what I really want is the GTX 275 to drop way down in price to get another for SLI =D
 
Kaldskryke said:
Wow. So either A3 is yielding a lot better than Charlie says, or Nvidia has something up their sleeve and the GF100 will be rather short lived.
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If A3 yields were much better why would they cut cores so close to launch?
 
jaredpace said:
Yah i believe fellix too, but he doesn't say what resolution. Probably 30" with AA for 10% faster
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10% at what rates though? If it's 10% faster but both are unplayable, that doesn't mean a whole lot...

Of course, if the 5870 2GB editions come out and the 2GB becomes a difference maker, we'll all know what was the bottleneck
 
ZerazaX said:
10% at what rates though? If it's 10% faster but both are unplayable, that doesn't mean a whole lot...

Of course, if the 5870 2GB editions come out and the 2GB becomes a difference maker, we'll all know what was the bottleneck
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Heh, 7fps vs. 7.7fps! :p
 
Low yields with tight tolerance can turn into high yields with looser tolerance. So Charlie may have been right talking about 512 cores, while wrong if they dropped it to 480 cores.

the rumormill said:
According to the sources at hand, nVidia was only able to produce a lowly board figure with 512 cores enabled [low 10s of thousands], thus there was a situation with potential shortage and a media and market backlash. The company acted upon the situation at hand and limited the number of cores, radically increasing the amount of functional GF100 dies. As a result, there should be more than 50,000 Fermi boards [this may not be the final figure, as we could not contact all AIC vendors and OEMs] available in the first 10 days of sales.
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Kaldskryke said:
Wow. So either A3 is yielding a lot better than Charlie says, or Nvidia has something up their sleeve and the GF100 will be rather short lived.
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Or, and this is my guess, Nvidia is simply going to move on to whatever their next generation is and let Fermi run out of stock with no mid generation refresh. Why bother devoting time and money trying to fix yields of a card that wasn't going to make much money anyway? To clarify, I mean that in the sense that high end cards don't make much money in general, not that Fermi in particular isn't going to make much money. Given that the card is practically going to launch when the typical mid generation refresh comes, I think Nvidia is simply going to skip refreshing it.

Remember, GPU generations are designed in parallel. NVidia and ATI have already started work on their next-next-generation of GPUs, if not further down the line than that.
 
kllrnohj said:
Remember, GPU generations are designed in parallel. NVidia and ATI have already started work on their next-next-generation of GPUs, if not further down the line than that.
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Yep... R600 was on the market only for a (relatively) short time then let die for the RV670 which itself wasn't around as long as its successor, RV770 was...
 
I bet the 512 "unlockable" versions will be a bit more than the regular 480 shader versions.

It was about 70-80 more for an FTW over the regular 280 2 years ago. Using that basis, if eVGA DOES release a 512 shader version, I expect it to run about 150 more per card.

I want 2 of those..
 
GaryBrown said:
I bet the 512 "unlockable" versions will be a bit more than the regular 480 shader versions.

It was about 70-80 more for an FTW over the regular 280 2 years ago. Using that basis, if eVGA DOES release a 512 shader version, I expect it to run about 150 more per card.

I want 2 of those..
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You'll need a dedicated power plant to pull that off. :p

Looking forward to more hard data on these soon. :)
 
Q-BZ said:
You'll need a dedicated power plant to pull that off. :p

Looking forward to more hard data on these soon. :)
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Hold on a second..... It's all starting to make sense now

Bill Gates and Toshiba want to put a mini-nuclear reactor in every home. Ahhhh! We are all gonna die!
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is it a coincidence that they announce this right before Fermi launches?!?! :D:D:D
 
ROFLMAO!!!! :p :p :p

You have me laughing out loud, making my coworkers wonder what I've got going on on the other side of the wall. :p

Digital Viper-X- said:
Hold on a second..... It's all starting to make sense now

is it a coincidence that they announce this right before Fermi launches?!?! :D:D:D
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Kaldskryke said:
Wow. So either A3 is yielding a lot better than Charlie says, or Nvidia has something up their sleeve and the GF100 will be rather short lived.
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This points to Nvidia giving up on the core all together, they are going to try to sell off what they can and move on, just like what ATI did with the R600's.

Its really suprising because Nvidia is a respin happy company, they even were able to pull off a decent respin of the FX5800 with 5900 and 5950. Maybe they don't see any of their lower range chips helping pull this off?
 
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