NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Final Specs & Pricing Revealed

Tomorrow

One major problem with Nvidia coming late to the market is that they don't do releases the same way ATI does them. ATI comes out with all their product on launch day ... well they used to, now its some what near each other of their other product releases.

So now Nvidia is waiting to release their mid range and low end video cards.
 
If there were 5970s to be had for 600 I'd already own one. There are very few to be had and they START at 700.
 
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3512471&postcount=23

Reviews are going to be shown on the 26th and not just specs.

Confirmed by HardwareCanucks as well.

And the ATI fanbois tremble..:p

It seems almost like people WANT Fermi to be a flop, from the posts in this thread... how is that good for anyone, red, green, or bright neon blue? They're screaming until they're blue in the face that it has to be a pathetic failure, as though their life's work is invalidated if it is not :p.

MSRP is $400 for the 470, $550 for the 480... the zzf (RipBoomLie) link floating around for $450 on the 470 is inflated, as BestBuy (both internal inventory and calling in with the SKU) and PCSS both confirm $400 MSRP's on it.
 
Wish I had the cash to buy one of these just for the hell of it. Otherwise... maybe games will warrant this card for a mid-res in 2014.
 
:)


Apparrently Anandtech didn't want to chance maxing out there 850W psu on Fermi :).

http://anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3780

I dont know about you... but anything over 1kw i dont want in my system.

The whole point of smaller faster systems was to stop the omg power suckage.

As was pointed out earlier in the thread, once you hit 1.2kw you are getting near the draw for a 15a household line. To be quite honest. Thats beyond silly.
 
I dont know about you... but anything over 1kw i dont want in my system.

The whole point of smaller faster systems was to stop the omg power suckage.

As was pointed out earlier in the thread, once you hit 1.2kw you are getting near the draw for a 15a household line. To be quite honest. Thats beyond silly.

Well to be fair, he did say this, "In preparation for tomorrow's review we needed to update our GPU testbed power supply,in case a pair of these cards ended up pushing the limits of our existing 850W PSU. "

So I think it's a precautionary step more than anything. Even with the 850W psu I think he would be safe cause I highly doubt a pair of fermi's along with other components is capable of sucking 850W.
 
It seems almost like people WANT Fermi to be a flop, from the posts in this thread... how is that good for anyone, red, green, or bright neon blue? They're screaming until they're blue in the face that it has to be a pathetic failure, as though their life's work is invalidated if it is not :p.

I would imagine that most of this is just fanboyism because as you say how would a bad Fermi release help ANYONE? In fact in would just slow down a refresh from AMD.
 
I would imagine that most of this is just fanboyism because as you say how would a bad Fermi release help ANYONE? In fact in would just slow down a refresh from AMD.

rofl, or maybe someone is much of a fanboy to see all the signs of an imminent failure of the Fermi. But whatever, we'll see soon enough how it's gonna pan out. Me, I'm not holding my breath but anything's possible.
 
Maybe for the reviews, but the launch event is at 6pm where the specs are suppose to be revealed then.
 
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Yeah but tomorrow as in ~2 hours from now when it hits midnight eastern time or are we talking about like 8am tomorrow?

Ok, I love hardware just as much as the next guy but calm down! We will have our crack tomorrow, give it time, we waited this long. :D
 
reviews then. Cards in april. Thou Fudzilla says maybe late as June?

Seriously. These guys need to pick a fracking date and stick to it. NV is gonna be 9 months late and no baby still soon.
 
Me neither on the GTX 470 :p

OK, so what did i say that was wrong?
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If this list is correct and you are right, then Nvidia takes back the (single GPU) performance crown and has managed to do a decent price to performance ratio for their GPUs bringing *choice* back to the market.

  • HD 5970, $600
  • GTX 480, $500
  • HD 5870, $400
  • GTX 470, $350
  • HD 5850, $330

isn't the above what we expect?

I wouldn't want to be nvidia right now.

The original MSRP of the 5870 is only $380. Bumping back down to that will make the gtx 480 $120 more. The gtx 470 would be only $30 less.

The 5850 original msrp is $260. Droping back to that would cause the gtx 470 to be $90 more. In fact you can get two 5850s at that point for only $60 more than the gtx 480.

Whats more. If ati wants to get agressive they can drop the 5870 to $350 which is only $30 less than its original MSRP. That would make the gtx 470 compete directly with the 5870. The gtx 480 would cost $150 more than the 5870 at that point.

A rumored 5890 could then be sloted in at a $450 price point. If it performs similar or faster to the gtx 480 nvidia's whole line up will be under priced.


I think the next month is going to be one of the most interesting and best times for us consumers.

If ati reacts with price drops great dx 11 performance can become a reality to some of us with less money and can help those who buy $400-$600 cards get better deals
 
Hope so. It's been a seller's market since October.

I'm waiting on SW TOR before i buy which is next spring so its not the end of the world for me. I build alot of my friends pcs tho and they normaly toss me $100 and alot are waiting for the 5850 to drop to $250 and the 6 core amd chips to pop out.

So i can make a few hudnred and get another ssd for my games or a monitor for eyeinfinty.
 
I wouldn't want to be nvidia right now.

i would - i'd be sitting with over a billion dollars in my bank account

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You are in for a shock .. neither company is going to drop prices like last time. They figured it out (individually) how to keep prices up. They have competitive prodict all at competitive and decent price points.
 
i would - i'd be sitting with over a billion dollars in my bank account

:cool:

You are in for a shock .. neither company is going to drop prices like last time. They figured it out (individually) how to keep prices up. They have competitive prodict all at competitive and decent price points.


Yep after last rounds of cuts they got a bit smarter ;), the cuts actually hurt them instead of helped them in anyway.
 
Last time their GTX 280 was at $650 MSRP at launch. :p

This GTX doesn't have so much to cut - in comparison - it is priced more reasonably.
 
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