Saturday, March 20, 2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 plus 470 specs and pricing emerge

We're solely every week away from his or her grand unveiling, less than already we've were given got word up of the legal specs for NVIDIA's high finish GTX 480 plus GTX 470 cards. Priced at $499, the 480 could be enough to supply 480 shader processors, a 384-bit interface to at least one.5GB of onboard GDDR5 RAM, and clock speeds of 700MHz, 1,401MHz, and 1,848MHz for the core, shaders and memory, respectively. The 470 brands carry out allowing for 446 SPs, slower clocks, and a 320-bit memory interface, but it is also priced at a added brilliant $349. The TDPs of these cards have a tendency to be lovely spectacular too, with 225W for the junior model and 295W for the full-fat card. Sourced by VR Zone, these numbers are continue to unofficial, but they are doing appear to mesh smartly with what we have a tendency to already be acquainted with of the hardware, which included a purported 5-10 percent benchmarking benefit for the GTX 480 over ATI's HD 5870. Whether or not the pricetag and power premium is worthwhile
are going to be up to you and the overall inevitable slew of reviews to
decide.