Buying GTX 480 / 470? Post Review poll

[bt_medic04]

nope, not buying one. this thing draws more power than an HD5970, yet only offers about 10% more performance over an HD5870. with that difference and knowing how well the 5870's overclock, amd can easily release a higher clocked 2gb version, call it a 5890 and be done with it.

nvidia, ive used your cards in the past and they rocked, however fermi bears too much of a resemblance of the FX series of yore in regards to power consumption, heat and noise

[Frag Maniac]

The good news about running the fans that way (facing the MB) is that it is supposed to be the optimal way to cool the MK-13 anyways, well according to that one review I read

Can you provide a link to that review? The only case in which I've seen them mounted that way is in conjunction with one or more fans on top of the HS facing downward.

[pentium777]

nope, not buying one. this thing draws more power than an HD5970, yet only offers about 10% more performance over an HD5870. with that difference and knowing how well the 5870's overclock, amd can easily release a higher clocked 2gb version, call it a 5890 and be done with it.

nvidia, ive used your cards in the past and they rocked, however fermi bears too much of a resemblance of the FX series of yore in regards to power consumption, heat and noise

Good! hopefully more like you and it'll ensure I get 2xGTX 480 HC FTWs immediately, heat? 50'C full load on water, noise ZERO, power consumption $1 extra per month compared to ATI.

Overclock? Ya I'll post my 800-900 core clock numbers here and see how that HD5870 CF or HD5970 compares :-) Let them release the 5890 2GB even with 2560x1600 isn't fully utilized and won't for a long while.

[roki977]

No doubts that Femi will be grat card one day,great potential.Tody Femi is just unfinished product that was forced to market because Nvidia is in deep sh.. . So i wont by it for sure.

[Donnie27]

No doubts that Femi will be grat card one day,great ponetial.Tody Femi is just unfinished product that was forced to market because Nvidia is in deep sh.. . So i wont by it for sure.

QFT! Beat me to it. But some will love it anyway.

[bt_medic04]

Good! hopefully more like you and it'll ensure I get 2xGTX 480 HC FTWs immediately, heat? 50'C full load on water, noise ZERO, power consumption $1 extra per month compared to ATI.

Overclock? Ya I'll post my 800-900 core clock numbers here and see how that HD5870 CF or HD5970 compares :-) Let them release the 5890 2GB even with 2560x1600 isn't fully utilized and won't for a long while.

water cooling is the exception, not the standard and i still stand by my comment earlier. too hot, too loud, too much power. coupled with the fact that the 480 10% faster than a 5870 on average but costs $100 more? $450 would have been a better release day price, but until it drops (and i suspect that it eventually will once yields improve to meet demand) its not worth it. now on the other hand the GTX470 is right where it needs to be pricing wise (given amd's current pricing on the 58xx series)

also, does anyone have any idea what kind of power supply wattage we're looking at for a SLI setup for the GTX480?

had these been released back in september or even october, my views might be different, but nvidia was too late to the party and plenty of us didnt want to wait around

[H2O]

also, does anyone have any idea what kind of power supply wattage we're looking at for a SLI setup for the GTX480?

I'd like to know this too. I checked SLI Zone the other day and they did not have anything listed. However, there were only 4-5 PSUs that were certified for GTX295 SLI, two of them being the ST1500 and Antec 1200W. I can't imagine the requirements fot GTX480 SLI would be much different.

[the finisher]

Any high quality 1k or better PSU should work. They don't need sli cert.

[Dumo]

any high quality 1k or better psu should work. They don't need sli cert.

qft

For $499...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-319-_-Product

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125322

[Serpentarius]

i'm looking at >68+% not buying for sure ...

will Nvidia able to pull out from this one? their shares seems stable atm ... maybe the aftershocks is yet to reach the rest of communities

[570091D]

i'm looking at >68+% not buying for sure ...

will Nvidia able to pull out from this one? their shares seems stable atm ... maybe the aftershocks is yet to reach the rest of communities

as more games with more tesselation come to market, more and more people will begin to take notice of gf100's performance....

[Dumo]

GTX 480 for NVDA is fight for bragging rights.

The real war with ATI is brewing @ sub $200 gpu market....which NVDA doesn't have any new product

[GTSRboy]

Nothing new...but the 275 is still good bang for the buck. Not much different at all from a 285...i bought my 275 for ~160. If your a folder, then its the best bang for under 200

[pr@$r1g]

I have pre-ordered GTX470 ......

I was thinking of new GPU .... my sapphire 5770 is never going to be vmoded
Sorry i was not able to get essential VR's for vmods

[Systemlord]

Man I need to upgrade my 8800 GTX soon, looks like Nvidia needs a better cooling solution! I will wait and see if Nvidia is able to improve their (silicon) 480 GPU with the full 512SP and bring temps down and OC headrooms up a bit, remember how hot the first 8800 GTX card ran along with the driver problems! Looks like I'll be waiting a little longer or considering an ATI product which I never thought I would do!

[Pekalion]

Man I need to upgrade my 8800 GTX soon, looks like Nvidia needs a better cooling solution! I will wait and see if Nvidia is able to improve their (silicon) 480 GPU with the full 512SP and bring temps down and OC headrooms up a bit, remember how hot the first 8800 GTX card ran along with the driver problems! Looks like I'll be waiting a little longer or considering an ATI product which I never thought I would do!

I barely doubt that they can improve the silicon even a bit, Fermi is a complex architecture that will take a long time to take something big to see improvements in the heat or power consumption. Indeed, remember that they are using 40nm manufacturation process, and they have spend like 3,3 millions of transistors in it, reducing the manufacturation process right now is quite imposible, and change something in it is a hard work.

Also, the 512SP version is quite an impressive achivement, most of the wafers have serious problems and only a few of them are useful. Furthermore, for getting those 700Mhz for the gpu they have to spend a lot of power consumption for it.

Of course they will get something to pass this bad step, or hope so, they have a bunch of people working in it. So, my advice, stay with the 88 for a while, or start looking the red side and keep your 88 for physix comp

[iTravis]

6 months waiting and Fermi ain't what I expected so I gotto pull a trigger on the HD5970, best part is at the same price at the GTX 480. I'll wait for the next Fermi line up or redesign.

[pr@$r1g]

nVidia can never improve on GTX 4XX ,bcoz its already A3 .......... it may improve on b* revision ,Bios revision's may help

[INFRNL]

I want fermi for folding, but i am hearing too many bad things from you guys. guess i need to see hard facts of the card, especially for folding (my primary concern, that ATI cannot touch right now)

[grimREEFER]

i read the anandtech review, and everything looked alright.
but i started reading some of these other reviews, and they are much more harsh.

anyway, can't buy something without almost universal acclaim.
also cant buy anything with poor tessellation performance.
gotta wait for hd6000 series or something.

[CobraXP]

I think I will hold on to my set of GTX 295s a while longer. I don't really see the difference between DX10 and DX11 anyways

[Sushi Warrior]

anyway, can't buy something without almost universal acclaim.
also cant buy anything with poor tessellation performance.
gotta wait for hd6000 series or something.

Poor tesselation? I thought that was one of its advantages....

[CaloSIM]

I'm still confused, whether GTX470 or GTX480 which I will buy later.

The card itself will be available in local stores next week.

I think the price is quite reasonable. $ 390 to $ 550 for GTX470 and GTX480.

[grimREEFER]

Poor tesselation? I thought that was one of its advantages....

i mean thats what stopping me from getting a 5870


hmm, if i was in desperate need of a new graphics card for some reason, and i couldn't wait for newer cards, i suppose i would reluctantly get a gtx 470.

[Pekalion]

i mean thats what stopping me from getting a 5870


hmm, if i was in desperate need of a new graphics card for some reason, and i couldn't wait for newer cards, i suppose i would reluctantly get a gtx 470.

Or you can always struggle your balls with the door when you pick up your wallet and go to buy it, that helps and a lot :p

For those how aim to wait for the next gen of Ati cards, they are going to have kind of good improvements over the Cypress. The code name for them are Southern Islands, they will include actual tech plus some quite interesting new techs, but it's said that the new and big change will be the other step, called Northern Islands.

My advice, if you are into Physix and you are a devoted Nvidia user, go for the GTX480, is a good card with some cons in it, like heat, people that buy that card doesnt care about power consumption. But, if you really hate that heat production, you are afraid that your psu will explode and just love hearing the world with your ears without needing an amplifier, go for a 5870 1GB right now or wait a little bit for the 2GB non-eyefinity edition.

Also, if you go for the 5870 and want to enable Physix in-game, you can take a 9600GT from nvidia, is a really nice card for that work.