Quote Originally Posted by xdan View Post
I think that after 6 months Nvidia will make a big surprise with GTX 470/480 and in a good way...NDA is very severe because of that...
It seems that TDP will be 215W for 470 and 250W fot GTX 480 not so scary and epic fail...
And also it seems that until 6 april the stock will be very low...almost inexistent...and the cards will be overpriced by sellers in some countrys like Romania.
wow... the past 6 months of waiting wasnt enough for you?
you want to wait and hope for a miracle for another 6 months?
man, you sure have a lot of faith... i hope nvidia knows how lucky they are to have you as one of their customers

Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
Performance wise, I am not waiting for any surprises. Prices are good, TDP is not as bad as it was "hyped" to be, these cards seem to be somewhat decent.
yeah perf looks to be about the same as 5800s, but if you ask me, that in itself is quite a surprise considering how much bigger gf100 is... it has more bandwidth, more texturing power, more shader power, more tesselation power, more everything... but its barely faster. that doesnt mean its bad though, the performance is very good and more than enough for most people. its just really unefficient from the looks of it...

about the tdp... not that bad?
depends on how much power the cards consume... if its close to their tdps, then its very bad... it would mean that a 470 consumes as much as a gtx295 but performs notably worse. the last single gpu card that consumed that much power (200W) was the 2900xt...

btw, check this out!
it looks like at least one person was caught in the steam hardware survey with a gtx480, so it shows up in the stats now