a 50% boost is nice, but clearly a far cry from the 100% nvidia claimed... they kept saying 2x the performance of a gtx285... which is not true... even if you allow them to backpedal their claims to refer to a 295... thats a cut down gt200, and its sli, and even THAT beats a 480 slightly...The GeForce GTX 480 enjoys an average advantage of 30-37%, depending on the resolution, over the previous-generation flagship GeForce GTX 285. When full-screen antialiasing is turned on, the difference is 46-48%
gtx285 sli is about as fast as a 5970 isnt it?
i like xbitlabs review, too bad they are always 2 weeks behind every other site, but at least they do a really good job every time...
about rmas... didnt gt200 cards have pretty high rma rates too? and they didnt run that hot... i think theres more to this than just heat... fan profiles, heatsink design, heatsink mounting and card assembly... packaging and pcb problems...
i think the main reason nvidia uses that backplate is not as a heatsink, its to stabilize the pressure on the gpu packaging during different temperatures, so that they dont run into solder bump issues and gpu packaging issues again. lets see if it works...
GTS450 specs look nice... close to 5850 performance... but 200-230E for that?
in what, 4-6 months from now? if it would be out now that would be an ok-good price/perf point... but in 1-2 quarters?
we will see...
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