Nvidia FERMI...

[TrinireturnofGamez]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-470-benchmarks-surfaces/8543.html  Leaked benchmarks are not promising... 

[Spazosaurus]

http://www.slashgear.com/nvidia-gtx-480-fermi-based-video-card-leaks-0476711/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20slashgear%20%28SlashGear%29

It’s obviously a week for leaky video cards, as after the first sighting of Sapphire’s stonking Radeon HD 5970 yesterday comes in-the-wild images of NVIDIA’s rival card, the GTX 480.  Based on the company’s Fermi architecture, the GTX 480 is tipped to begin arriving on cards from select manufacturers this month.

One of the most obvious elements in the card’s design is the huge power supply, complete with six regulation lines; that ties in to some details NVIDIA revealed at CeBIT 2010 this week.  Apparently the GTX 480 will be particularly power hungry, and you’ll likely need a 600W minimum PSU.

It’ll also require special fans to keep it cool, not that we’re too surprised at that given the performance angle NVIDIA are going for.  They’ve apparently said that the GTX 480 will be more potent than ATI’s Radeon HD 5870, particularly when it comes to Open CL performance under OS X Snow Leopard.  We’ll have to wait and see when the first shipping cards hit review benches, hopefully later this month.

Call me awesome-damus and mark my words when I say we're going to have an EXACT duplication of the 4870 vs GTX280 conundrum, just in the next generation. Slightly more powerful but much hotter and MUCH more expensive, too expensive to be viable.

It could be even worse as the 480 looking like its poised to break some power consumption records.

[MessiaaH]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/nvidia-pulls-196-75-driver-amid-reports-its-frying-graphics-car/

[W1nTry]

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[Prowl]

LOLOLOL Win

[Nephilim]

yeah i read that and hurried to tell teh few ppl still on green team that i know of to not update their drivers

[Philosophical45]

guess i have to be lazy again to install new drivers..... i rolled back dat beech today... didn't even notice dat d card temp was 84deg while folding oui, my word... nvidia's mc!

[MessiaaH]

jah, man woulda come home and find smoke lol

[IsMe2003]

Fail so far IMO

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/06/nvidia-gtx-480-makes-benchmarking-debut-matches-ati-hd-5870-per/

[Spazosaurus]

Well, so far looks like my predictions are not too far from the truth.

Still, nobody started talking pricing yet. That will be a big determining factor in its success/failure.

[MessiaaH]

anything but total blowout of d 5870 is fail, because at this point, dey cant top amd price, and if dey doo, amd will drop price, and release d 5890

if d greenteam cant top amd performance by a significant amount, dey fail. lol, watch and see.

and they recent drivers fiasco is not helping matters.

[W1nTry]

Well imho this is the typical tug of war they have, it's been going on forever now since the days of the 9700 by ATI. The 9700 led the Geforce 3 series and even the 4. Then the 5 came out and was still struggling, but the 6 though (a little slower) was a great card, then by the time they hit the 7 cards they were beginning to pull away. The 8 was Massively successfuly and now ATI is back with its 4xxx and 5xxx. The 4xxx is akin to the 6xxx series Geforce in that they were GREAT cards that slightly underperformed compared to the competition but were priced right. So in effect we have DAAMITs equivalent of the 8 series geforce ftw. I still waiting on prices to drop. I hope in the least it will make things more affordable.

[Spazosaurus]

Well if history is any indicator, the 480 will be priced significantly more than the current 5xxx cards, thus there will be no incentive for daamit to dop prices until the next gen comes out.

A refresh could help in that depertment but not very much.

You have some waiting to do to get any significant price drops, but I have the feeling that you're in no hurry.

[Crixx_Creww]

anything but total blowout of d 5870 is fail, because at this point, dey cant top amd price, and if dey doo, amd will drop price, and release d 5890

if d greenteam cant top amd performance by a significant amount, dey fail. lol, watch and see.

and they recent drivers fiasco is not helping matters.

so you hold the green team to a higher standard than its red counterpart?


and on another note... i  real real real sad to say i NOW get what capt awesome avatar means.. wow  i feelin like a user lol

[W1nTry]

You have some waiting to do to get any significant price drops, but I have the feeling that you're in no hurry.

Correct is right XD

[MessiaaH]

anything but total blowout of d 5870 is fail, because at this point, dey cant top amd price, and if dey doo, amd will drop price, and release d 5890

if d greenteam cant top amd performance by a significant amount, dey fail. lol, watch and see.

and they recent drivers fiasco is not helping matters.

so you hold the green team to a higher standard than its red counterpart?

No, i hold both companies at d same standard, i have no loyalties, whoever better, dies who i going with.

i rock d geforce 2 and 3, i rock d 9700/9800 ati, and i rock d 8800gt/gtx.
all those cards were the best in their time, and significantly blow out d compition.

if nvidia cant blow out amd 6 month old card, i not even wasting my time.

i hope dey do, harder d compition, is only we benifitin, but nviida get too overconfident, and underestimate amd.

d 4000 cards, lash dem hard, and d 5000 series even more so.

ati was playing cetchup, but now d roles reverse, nvidia playing cetchup

and soooner or later, it go switch again

[Arcmanov]

Fail so far IMO

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/06/nvidia-gtx-480-makes-benchmarking-debut-matches-ati-hd-5870-per/

WoW!!!  Vendor -supplied benchmarks.  Awesome!!!






/sarcasm 

[Prowl]

Well

GeForce GTX 480 : 512 SP, 384-bit, 295W TDP, US$499

GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 320-bit, 225W TDP, US$349

Internal benchmarks reveal that GeForce GTX 470 is some 5-10% faster than Radeon HD 5850 and similiar for GeForce GTX 480 over the Radeon HD 5870.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-g...aled/8635.html


note that ati/amd are releasing new drivers that claims a 5-10% performance increase, this not only negates ( if true ) the claimed performance increase of fermi but also AMD/ATI can still drop their prices and are rumored to have a refresh waiting to launch soon, looks like nvidia is gonna get eaten alive price/performance wise before they even release, not to mention the power usage for the cards is said to be higher than AMDs.


http://forum.donanimhaber.com/m_38492871/tm.htm

According to this, the real 10.3 WHQL will be released at 24 March, but AMD will make a non-WHQL 10.3a available today through underground.amd.com.

Performance increases: ("..e varan performans artışı" means "performance increases of up to...")

Aliens vs. Predator
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %5 ortalama performans artışı.

Battleforge
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %8'e varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.

Call of Duty: World at War
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %2'ye varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %6'ya varan performans artışı.

Company of Heroes
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %6'ya varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.

Crysis ve Crysis Warhead
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %6'ya varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %2'ye varan performans artışı.

DiRT 2
ATI Radeon HD 5970'te %30'a varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %20'ye varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %10'a varan performans artışı.

Far Cry 2
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %6'ya varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %4'e varan performans artışı.

Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2
ATI Radeon HD 4800 serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. � Clear Sky
ATI Radeon HD 5970'te %2'ye varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Serisinde %2'ye varan performans artışı.

Resident Evil 5
ATI Radeon HD 5000 Serisinde %5'e varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.

Tom Clancy�s H.A.W.X.
ATI Radeon HD 5970'te %15'e varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 5700 ve 5800 Serilerinde %20'ye varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.

World in Conflict
ATI Radeon HD 5800 serisinde %5'e varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Serisinde %3'e varan performans artışı.
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Serisinde %5'e varan performans artışı.

[MessiaaH]

anything but total blowout of d 5870 is fail, because at this point, dey cant top amd price, and if dey doo, amd will drop price, and release d 5890

if d greenteam cant top amd performance by a significant amount, dey fail. lol, watch and see.

and they recent drivers fiasco is not helping matters.

like i said in dis post, lol ^^^^, is exactly what happening, and those drivers u spoke of was available from guru3d.com ah couple days now. d non-whql dat is.

Link:  http://www.guru3d.com/news/nonwhql-ati-catalyst-103-to-be-released-today/

New Profile, battlefiled bad company players take note:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATI-CrossFireX-Profile-Application-1.0-download-2501.html

[Arcmanov]

Check out XFX's iteration of the GTX480




More pics here...