They act like we should be shocked about this... They have been making 512 parts already with crappy yields. They are probably getting a nice stock pile of full 512 cards and can finally make a card based on the full architecture.
Its safe to say the GTX 4xx has tons of head room in the performance area which has been clear to me under WC conditions going above a 30% overclock. But if Nvidia is able to respin a cooler running chip than faster models will be rolling out.
I know Overclocking goes both ways for ATI & Nvidia products, but form what I am seeing is a GTX 480 will OC past the performance of a 5970 and the 5970 OC'ed can just barely catch up.
Overall it will be interesting to see ATI's new refresh and Nvidia's new 512 part. Either way both companies are making blazing fast GPU's for the games we play today.
Its extremely sad to see that nvidia leaves us xfx fans in the cold. Its my brand of choice so if they dont support them(xfx) i wont support nvidia in return.
Now i have had many nvidia products over the years but even i can see this is some serious PR spin from nvidia. Dismissing power consumption as acceptable to enthusiasts is really a terrible viewpoint to take, along with the fact yields are obviously so poor there is just no stock out there. Now if nvidia can respin this chip and lower its power consumption, restore 512 cores and up the clocks a tad, it will be considerably faster than a 5870. as it is though, its just not worth it
Thrax
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Its safe to say the GTX 4xx has tons of head room in the performance area which has been clear to me under WC conditions going above a 30% overclock. But if Nvidia is able to respin a cooler running chip than faster models will be rolling out.
I know Overclocking goes both ways for ATI & Nvidia products, but form what I am seeing is a GTX 480 will OC past the performance of a 5970 and the 5970 OC'ed can just barely catch up.
Overall it will be interesting to see ATI's new refresh and Nvidia's new 512 part. Either way both companies are making blazing fast GPU's for the games we play today.
EVGA GTX 480 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130552&cm_re=gtx_480-_-14-130-552-_-Product - In stock
Gigabyte GTX 480 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125319&cm_re=gtx_480-_-14-125-319-_-Product - In stock
MSI GTX 480 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127502&cm_re=gtx_480-_-14-127-502-_-Product - In stock
The Super Clocked EVGA card is out of stock but most GTX 480's and GTX 470's can be found in stock all over.