Quote Originally Posted by 570091D View Post
the pcb shouldn't be the same, the extra cluster should include a wider mem bus and more mem.... i just don't think the 5% performance gain justifies adding another card to the top of thier line-up, unless it's going to beat the 5970.
Incorrect bro, because GTX 480 is already equipped with all of GF 100 available ROP & buswidth (48 ROP & 384 bit respectively). If any, it's the power phase sector of the PCB that would need to be strengthened, quite considerably so if the last leak info from expreview can be trusted (considering nVidia's sh1tty GF 100 yield, if they want to maximize the amount of perfect GF 100 available, we could expect 325-350 w TDP of a 512 SP GF 100 part, and that might be conservative ! ).