BSN - GeForce GTX 480 has 480 cores, AIBs confirm

Also, we received news about targeted prices for the parts, and they look quite competitive against six-month old ATI 5800 Series: according to the benchmarks leaked some time ago, GeForce GTX 470 will beat out HD 5850 and in some cases, even HD 5870 - for the price of HD 5850 - we were told that the ballpark figure is $299-349, while GTX 480 will run between $449-499.
On the other hand, it seems they are little tensions between Theo and nVidia last days ...