The good news for Nvidia and their new GeForce GTX 480 graphics card is that it is still a very fast product, and as the drivers have time to mature it is likely to become even faster. For now I am going to reserve my opinion on whether or not the GeForce GTX 480 is a good buy, and wait for it to hit shelves to review the pricing. It will also be very interesting to see what upgrades Nvidia’s board partners can throw at the GeForce GTX 480 to help keep temperatures under control.
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Horribleron Posts: 13 Joined: 2010-03-26 |
Posted on: 04/02/2010 02:23 AM
I understand how you feel QmA and even agree that it's good to have some competition to drive prices down. And if NVidia wants to to lose money to provide me with a kick ass card who am I as the consumer to complain? It is a decent performing card but falls far short of what it was supposed to be. According to SemiAccurate, NVidia ordered 9000 wafers with 104 chips per wafer of the A3 spin and got roughly 30,000 working parts. That means out of 936,000 GPU's they only got 3% to work? Ouch! Apparently the only way to fix this is to do a new base level respin with a B series to correct the problems. This would take six months or more. But still, A fixed Fermi with all 512 cores working at 750 MHz would be a real 5870 killer and likely compete with ATI next refresh as well. And they could have it out by Christmas. This seems to me a base level respin is the only way to deal with the mess. And I DO hope they fix it but I just can't see NVidia continuing on with the A3 GPU in its current state. It's all crazy man. Of coarse, all the information I have read could be wrong and maybe everything is peachy at the fabs. But then they were 6 months late, 32 cuda cores short and 50 Mhz less than what they said would be released. And they also have a card that runs only 10C below the temp where it fails. My cat used to like to sit behind my computer back when was using my 2900XT. I'll bet she would love a Fermi. |
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Artem |
Posted on: 04/02/2010 05:28 AM
well why not fail? green guys promised super gpu that'll kill ati's for far its not very killing, it need huge amount of power, and you can toast toasts on it, and with closed pc case you can probably make a grill inside the pc case of cource its price is lower, they have no choise if they want to have a chance vs ati cards so far green cards are piece of crap they need do more research/tuning b4 releasing something worthy |
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leexgx Posts: 8 Joined: 2010-03-29 |
Posted on: 04/05/2010 12:53 AM
do not think its an big fail just its quite hot and maybe bit noisy in an warm places or in SLI 2x 5870 in CF look very good to me but drivers that really put me off i most likely only get an (i am buying) GTX480 as it should be 3-4x faster then an 9800GX2 (i had the GTX280 games ran mostly smooth but that died on me but i did get credit for it so only need to pay half for the GTX480) other site need to do test with lower cards to see if the GTX295 is really faster then 1 GXT480 |
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Casecutter |
Posted on: 04/08/2010 04:13 PM
Well most interesting... I notice there’s no power consumption or heat number for the 5770 C-F set-up, what up with that? |
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Hero |
Posted on: 04/08/2010 10:17 PM
I am looking forward to your follow articles on some production cards. |
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sertz |
Posted on: 05/21/2010 12:55 PM
First off, Ruzveh, go to school for a few more years or something... You are almost completely illiterate. As for the Fermi cards, I actually think this is excellent performance for the price. You have a card that, at times, gives the Radeon HD 5970 a run for its money in a single-GPU solution. Another point is the minimum framerate department. This particular review doesn't reveal minimums, but the minimum framerate in most games is doubled on the GTX 480 over the HD 5870, even though the average frames per second may be similar. The power consumption shouldn't be a surprise to any PC gamer. If ATI hadn't released the Evergreen to be so power efficient, Fermi's release would be the gaming equivelant of the second coming. However, seeing as most people were impatient and bought an HD 5870 before Fermi came out, they will defend their purchase to the death... Even if it is the lesser performing card. I am one of the few who actually sold my HD 5870 and used the money towards a new GTX 480 and couldn't be happier with the change. The drivers are much less buggy that the catalyst drivers (even though ATI has done great things recently with their drivers), all of my games have seen performance improvements, and the card is an absolute beast at tesselation. Another, less talked about fact is the framebuffer. While not important now, the extra bit of memory will become very important with next gen PC games releasing. My HD 5870 had 1GB memory, and while it served me well in most games, in GTA IV I was unable to max the settings out (even with the -nomemrestriction command) because the game became completely unplayable. Whereas with my GTX 480, I can completely max out the game without a problem because of the exra memory on the card. I'm sure the 2GB eyefinity edition Radeon wouldn't have an issue either, but I'm just pointing out one of my observations with the new GTX 480. All in all, to call Fermi a failure would be only to deny the fact that it's the fastest single-gpu card available. And with all the evidence out there showing it is a powerhouse, I think it's safe to say Fermi, while late and power hungry, delivered on the promises nVIDIA made about performance and potential in DX11 titles. |
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Bob |
Posted on: 05/08/2011 12:20 PM
I bought the Geforce GTX 480/470 around $500 last year...I run Flight Simulator, Rex 2 weather, and FScommander full blast which is fantastic...However, like someone said it gets very, very HOT...I think it might be on it's last stages out...sorry to say...Don't recommend due to the heat...It's a blast furnace... |
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