GeForce GTX 480 and 470 Revealed, Benchmarked
IT'S FINALLY HERE. Yes, that means that there won't be any more leaks or board shots or box shots… well, until the next rumored GPU variant comes along. But today let's enjoy what Nvidia has to share with us, officially.
Today at PAX East, Nvidia officially debuted its much delayed, long awaited and highly anticipated GPUs built off of its Fermi architecture. We've had our own private time with the newest from Nvidia, and we're ready to tell you all about it.
When it comes to pushing pixels, the Fermi-based GF100 chips have a special advantage over the competition with hardware tessellation – something that Nvidia frequently boasts about. Check out the video below to see tessellation in action.
As you've probably already heard if you happen to hang around the rumor mill much, retail versions of the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards won't be hitting stores until the week of April 12th (in two and a half weeks). These first round of cards, numbering in the tens of thousands, are all manufactured 'in-house' by Nvidia, so there will be little variation between products offered by different OEMs.
With all new GPUs, they're not going to be cheap. The GeForce GTX 480 will come in at $500 and the GTX 470 at $350.
Check out the full details, complete with exhaustive benchmarks in our Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 review.
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Great News! Just the heat output I've been waiting for. Here in the UK our gaming is continually interrupted by the over overwhelming desire to make cups of tea. Now with a bit of adaptation I can add liquid cooling to a GTX 480 and use the generated hot water to make my cuppa without leaving the game. Then refill the cooler with fresh cold water (thus chilling the card just when it's getting hot) for improved performance. Oh Nvidea you are glorious!!!!! DON'T LISTEN TO THE KNOCKERS WE LOVE YOU IN ENGLAND!
Thats really not as expensive as I thought it would be, that said, I'm still welling to bet us in the UK will get ripped off and charged something like £450 and £300.
Thats really not as expensive as I thought it would be, that said, I'm still welling to bet us in the UK will get ripped off and charged something like £450 and £300.
It's funny you should say that but....
Just checked scan:
GTX470 = £299 - £333
GTX480 = £428 - £504
So other then the Gainward's (which are relatively well priced) we pretty much got screwed as per usual.