NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 480M Mobile GPU

[Boissez]

You are amusing too much. As said, who knows, but maybe they were working on 512 because they thought they would need that much to beat the 5870 at that time. The reality shows that 480 was (and still is) enough for that. Why should they beat 5870 by 30% when 10% gives you the lead? But who knows, maybe they got in trouble too, but that's not important now, what matters now is, the GTX 480 beats the 5870 with good enough margin.

You keep mentioning the GTX480 10% lead like it's the only performance metric that matters. I do not think so. So therefore I am not wooed by GTX295-like performance with 50% higher power consumption.

And from the looks of it this also applies to the GTX480M