The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

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@Deimos

I think you misunderstood my point. To clear things up my point is ( and was ) that no one should expect a launch card using a new API to do well with it. In other words DX11 shouldn't be a major selling feature even though it has / and will be marketed as such. What did this have to do with undervaluing the effort involved anyways There has always been a growing peroid with new APIs and their respective hardware. By the time we have enough DX11 games to care about, we should have adequete hardware to handle them. As it stands the very small amount of titles isn't reason enough. Buy a HD5 series or GT4xx because of performance in current (DX9/10) games.

They forgot that graphics cards use GDDR5, not DDR5.

All of EVGAs boxes say DDR not GDDR.


As far as true memory banwidth, It should be more in the way of 220-240GB/s on the 480 ( realistic estimation I'd say ) That would put things at 1200Hz on the low side and 1300Hz on the high side. At 1400, we'd be looking at 268GB/s on the 480, which not impossible, I'd say doubtful. Given the wider bus, they don't need memory much faster if faster at all than whats on the 58x0 cards to achieve adequete bandwidth. Unless they chose to use faster memory later on down the pipe (admist the delays), I don't expect clocks faster than 1300Hz (5.2Ghz) myself. This would also make sense given they were meant to come out in Q4, at which time faster GDDR5 wasn't widely available to my knowledge.

All that said, with 1.5gb VRAM and high bandwidth, SLI 480s should be the best 2560x1600 high IQ config for some time to come ( I have my doubts that 2 5870 eyefinity cards will do better )