The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

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Everyone has to remember that CUDA is an all-encompassing term for the architecture that accelerates all types of APIs on NVIDIA GPUs (OpenCL, PhysX, folding, Compute Shaders, ray tracing, Adobe Photoshop GPU acceleration, Flash acceleration, etc., etc.). It is WAS proprietary but is now acting as a type of umbrella term for everything GPU accelerated. Much like Stream on AMD products.

Thank you sir People get caught up in marketing terms like always...


At this point it looks like I may just have to go crossfire if I want a more cost effective performance boost (as much as multi gpu setpus are facepalm inducing affairs). I can see the 480 being nice at high res / IQ due to its vram and bandwidth advantage over Cypress (and unless you use 8x + AA at 1920x1200 and more often 2560x1600, 1GB of vram should remain adequete at 1920x1200 4x well into the future eg HD6000 ), but beyond that all these rumors so far are merely (WTB facepalm smilely face) If the 480 truely creeps up on 300 watts, that is quite strange. Would another shader cluster and some extra ram and similar ( perhaps lower? ) clocks really result in 80 more watts power usage (max) over the 470? For comparisons sake what was the max board power of the original GTX 260 and 280?