Official GTX 470/480 circle-jerk thread

Directly from good 'ole China, a couple of curious news items:

http://en.expreview.com/

300W just for the video card, lulz. It looks like I'll be pulling 800W on load from the socket if I get it. Kind of scary.

I wish they would open a package and benchmark the shit out of one of them :-/ .
 
300W is ridiculous. My entire rig with an OC'd Quad and a HD4870 probably pulls just a hair over 300W at full load.

With a power draw in the 300W range for the GTX480, you have to start factoring in how much it will cost in electricity each year to operate the card. I bet you could easily eat up $100-200 annually just for that card alone. To me, that is a waste. Especially if the price of the card is going to be high already. I'm no fanboy, but I am liking the HD5000 cards more and more as the 400 series gets closer to release. I just wish the price was right.
 
There is no way a card can draw 42 amps; that's about 5000 watts. That said, if the price is high and it is engineered for games that won't hot the market for a few years then why bother? I guess I'll be sticking with my sli'ed gtx 260's for a while.
 
ChuckTheHammer said:
There is no way a card can draw 42 amps; that's about 5000 watts. That said, if the price is high and it is engineered for games that won't hot the market for a few years then why bother? I guess I'll be sticking with my sli'ed gtx 260's for a while.
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12 volts X 42 amps = 504 watts. So what Nvidia is recommending is that your PSU can put out at least 42 amps (or about 500 watts) from JUST your +12 volt rails. Most quality 650 watt PSUs can do 42 amps on the 12V rail, if not more.

That is still really steep for a single GPU. I can't imagine what the dual-GPU card will draw (if it ever sees the light of day).
 
My bad; I was thinking along the lines of 110 volts and not the 12 volt rails (I was switching out some electrical stuff around the house when I saw that). Regardless, that is a ton of power per card.
 
My advice if you like these cards when they're released: wait. Wait until they come out with the second generation of them about 6 months later and they'll have the power dropped, run cooler, and probably faster too.
 
balls2dawall said:
too fast to market with unpolished product; that sounds so fimilar
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Yeah... I'm thinking the same thing. 8 months later (xmas 2010) = GTX 490 die shrink, cooler cards, a bit faster, somewhat cheaper, more streamlined architecture for games as opposed to computing.

Fucking hell though... I want a new video card to play with during all that time :-/ .
 
GTX 295 sells for same price...$500; anybody want to buy a 295 when 470/480 comes out?
 
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Author: Shane McGlaun Posted: 22 hours, 51 mins Ago




If you are a gamer that has been looking forward to a Fermi video card from NVIDIA, we have some new specs today. The cards are rumored to be landing later this month and pricing and details have surfaced.
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The GTX 480 will have a core clock of 700MHz, a shader clock of 1401MHz and a memory clock of 1848MHz with a 384-bit memory interface. The card will have 1536MB of VRAM and a 295W TDP selling at $499.
The GTX 470 will have a core clock of 607MHz, a shader running at 1215MHz, and a memory clock of 1674MHz. The memory interface is 320-bit and it has 1280MB of RAM. the TDP is 225W and the card is said to sell for $349.
 
Sounds about right.

I'm expecting more than twice the performance of my GTX 260 c216 :-D
 
Shit, that 480 is pulling the same power as a 5970. It had better be blazing in games and benchmarks sucking up that much energy. Well, it looks like a beast on paper, let's see how it does. We should start getting some reviews this coming week.
 
Actually, it's a hot as hell GPU, but it's actually going to be barely faster than a 5870. The heat comes from the compute performance, which the core is geared towards it seems.

I doubt very much it will be anywhere near the 5970.

Not really a "gaming" GPU per se, but it should work well enough. It's kind of a disappointment, but for the price I can't really complain much. I'd rather the high-end model be $400 and maybe I'll wait until it's that cheap, but we'll see. Maybe there will be good deals on it somewhere or something.
 
Well, I saw that the actual TDP is 250W, which is still the highest yet for a single gpu, and almost as high as the dual gpu 5970. Anyway, I saw some pics that were finally released of the beast.

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they must be having a hell of a time keeping that thing cool; heat pipes on the gpu cooler.
 
I bet these cards are going to have very little overclocking potential also. I have heard that they have been really disappointed in the clock speeds all along with these cards, which typically means that they don't clock well. I guess we will see.

Still waiting for any official benchmarks. Kind of odd seeing how close to a release date we are. I am also wondering about availability. They have said all along that they won't hit full swing until SUMMER of this year.
 
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