The Fermi Thread - Part 3

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Another french review, erenumerique.fr

Ty

Can't read French, so this is form the Google Translate of the conclusion:

50% more transistors, 38 watts more at rest, 102 watts more support, the GTX 480 is a single GPU card that uses the standard of consumption, heat and noise of a dual-GPU! With heat pipe that is measured at over 70 ° over a plaque that is approaching 65 ° and also a fan who reached the 3000 rpms past two minutes of testing, all in one box open, the GeForce GTX 480 should be compared on these points with the Radeon HD 5970, and not the HD 5870. And this comparison is very generous, because if you look just the noise level obtained, it is unfortunately the level of a Radeon HD 4870 X2 support.

Yikes, the power consumption was true... forget getting this for folding. Noise was more than the 4870X2? Well I wouldn't know, mine is under water

edit: Going off the French review, the DX11 comparison actually has the GTX480 performance go down compared to 5870... weird!