The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[MrDiaz]

Update (March 18th):

GeForce GTX 480 : 512 SP, 384-bit, 250W 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. Interestingly, the TDP of GeForce GTX 480 is almost similar to Radeon HD 5970 which is a dual GPU card. Interestingly, our sources revealed that there are indeed plans for dual Fermi cards and the TDP of the card is probably gonna be mind blowing.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-g...aled/8635.html
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Update (March 19th):

XFX Retail Boxing + Card revealed:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...ards-pictured/

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Update (March 22nd):

GTX 480: Shader clock at 1401MHz, GPU Clock 700MHz, Memory clock 1848MHz, 384-bit memory interface, 1536MB of Memory. TDP 250W

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18170/1/
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Update (March 24th):

http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...70&postcount=1

Thanks to a "certain" friend of mine who's under the NDA, i've had a quick look at nVidia FTP with pics, "reviewer's guides", drivers an most improtantly a whole plethora of the GTX470/480 benchmarks against the HD5850 and HD5870 and from what i've seen, the GTX480 beats the HD5870 easily by 25% on average. Sometimes it's 10% sometimes 50-60% but the GTX480 always wins.

They used the 10.2 ATi cats for their comparison by the way.

So yeah, don't read too hard into certain people's fear mongering anti-nVidia BS.

Asus' product will pack a special (supported?) feature that will allow the user to tweak the voltage to "shift into overdrive" to make things "50% faster."


Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/fer...tage,9965.html