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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ProX |
Posted on: 03/26/2010 10:19 PM
Awesome review but shame about the GeForce GTX 480, its a hot dog! |
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Renegade |
Posted on: 03/26/2010 10:26 PM
wow thank you ever much for the late night reading. what an honest review but you could have made it much shorter and just said that fermi blows LOL |
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Rizz |
Posted on: 03/26/2010 10:28 PM
The power usage is shocking you need your own power plant to run this. Anyway thanks for review. |
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gamer007 |
Posted on: 03/26/2010 10:33 PM
lol I thought this thing was meant to be a killer. it is slower than my old GeForce GTX 295 in Metro 2033 which is a game I read it would do very well in. I am massively disappointed in this release. |
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FULMTL |
Posted on: 03/27/2010 02:02 AM
look at those 2x 5770's go! Save $100 and some power. The crossfire 5770's seem plenty fine. |
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Horribleron Posts: 13 Joined: 2010-03-26 |
Posted on: 03/27/2010 03:48 AM
Since I'm trying to cut back on my power bill (check out my new Energy Star rated fridge!) I doubt this beast will find its way into my rig. But, it's good to see ATI get some competition so hopefully ATI prices will drop a bit. Hey Steve, what happened to my account? I had to recreate it. I thought that I had just lost the password during my switch to WIN7 but somebody there flushed it. Horribleron |
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Buuzzza |
Posted on: 03/27/2010 06:56 AM
poor Fermi  this is nothing like what I was expecting. I will be keeping my old Radeon HD 4870 X2 for a little longer. Well at least until the 5870 pricing drops. If that even happens now! |
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Zerg |
Posted on: 03/29/2010 12:40 AM
2 little 2 late I guess. Great review and I loved your comments about the power consumption  |
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billtiger |
Posted on: 03/29/2010 10:44 AM
So late, so hot, so hungry, its a shame on nvidia, i'll keep my good watercooled 4870x2, and when prices will drop a bit, i'll change for 5850 crossfire |
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tiger |
Posted on: 03/29/2010 08:05 PM
Great review! Makes me wonder if I should move back to ATI. After all I dont't own a power plant and I really don't want to grill my MOBO and RAM. Shame on you NVIDIA for blowing such a kick ass product ;-( |
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Horribleron Posts: 13 Joined: 2010-03-26 |
Posted on: 03/30/2010 01:36 AM
If what I have been reading on SemiAccurate is true we may not be seeing very many of these GTX480/470 cards. Basically, NVidia wanted Fermi to run at 750 Mhz with all 512 CUDA cores. It missed that mark badly. 480 cores at 700 Mhz is the best it could muster and have enough chips to sell and that's only after they upped the voltage. So pretty much all of the boards they will be selling have flawed GPU's. This mess is pretty much a money losing proposition for NVidia. Their best hope is a healthy GF104 with 256 cores at a decent clock rate and good yields sometime in May or June. Even if the GTX480 does beat the ATI 5870 it doesn't beat enough to justify the price difference (especially if ATI lowers prices in the future) plus I don't care to buy a flawed product or one that may not be around very long. The boys in green really need to rethink this business model of building stuff just fast enough to beat the competition in benchmarks but where they lose their shorts in profitability. I can guarantee you that the boys in red aren't losing money right now. |
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Ruzveh |
Posted on: 04/01/2010 03:47 AM
Whooaaaa! I m totally turned off with nVidia marketing strategies and all fake stories they made initially before the launch of this fermi based cards. M sure all nvidia fans will not start looking at ATi cards for their superior and first to launch Dx11 based cards. Ati cards r latest, more efficient and less priced. Atleast they hav not cheated like nvidia. Imagine how much time they wasted in making a dummy card like fermi? And they shamefully priced higher then the better cards which are available in the market. Who the hell now wants these Dx11 cards by nvidia. My advise to XFX "Good for the first time u made a smart decision to produce Ati cards and selling it" We are with u. Finally waiting so much for nvidia i have decided to go for ATI card who r winner at the moment. Nvidia it was a v bad strategy by you of keep waiting for ur products & then spurt all at one to boost initial sale because u knw from the back of ur mind that ur cards r not efficient. They r not fastest as u thought it to be. TATA nVidia.. Welcome ATI  |
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Artem |
Posted on: 04/01/2010 04:50 AM
Epic Fail |
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QmA |
Posted on: 04/01/2010 07:33 PM
Are you guys serious? I don't see how the 480 was a big failure. Its the fastest single GPU card! It deserves some respect for that alone. We have some excellent cards from ATi but frankly I don't know what they were smoking when they came out with those ridiculous prices. Lets keep the fan-boy crap out of the picture and see what we have. Nvidia has given us what we desperately needed and that is competition! We expected the 480 to compete with the 5870 and it does just that and it does that well. The 470 also competes very well to the 5850 and downright beats it for price/performance. I probably won't buy the Nvidia cards but to call them a failure is really stupid. Thanks for the review STEvE. |
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Dubs |
Posted on: 04/01/2010 08:34 PM
I agree with QmA its not that bad and I think the reviewer was smart to reserve his ultimate opinion on Fermi until production cards ship and drivers mature a little more. |
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