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News: AMD is ready to anticipate Nvidia's GTX480
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Well, Fermi II is due later this year, so say nV... 
I can wait, I'm not desparate for a new card. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, but it doesn't look like the Fermi 1 will be something that would interest me. Too hot/too power hungry/too noisy by the looks of it.
But maybe they'll get it right by the end of the year...?
The one-horse graphics market atm just sucks, so it'll be nice to see nV release something... anything... to get the ball rolling again. £500 gfx cards can buzz right off
I can wait, I'm not desparate for a new card. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, but it doesn't look like the Fermi 1 will be something that would interest me. Too hot/too power hungry/too noisy by the looks of it.
But maybe they'll get it right by the end of the year...?
The one-horse graphics market atm just sucks, so it'll be nice to see nV release something... anything... to get the ball rolling again. £500 gfx cards can buzz right off
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Well no no spare card but I do have a spare rig - I just felt now would be the best time to get rid of current card (just before new release) to hold its value?
I'm cool waiting for a bit but do we know for CERTAIN Fermi will have better performance than 5870s?
Thanks for the info guys really kind!
I'm cool waiting for a bit but do we know for CERTAIN Fermi will have better performance than 5870s?
Thanks for the info guys really kind!
On paper even if they miss the target clocks by quite a margin it should still be a good few percentage faster... in practise tho we won't know til some cards are in the wild.
There are rumours Nvidia are probably going with 480 shaders now for the GTX 480, in a effort to increase the clocks... ?
They've been trying all sorts so I wouldn't hold out too much on any one rumour turning out to be what they finally come up with even if it was true at the time.
If they were trying to increase clocks tho I'd have thought they'd cut 2 clusters.
If they were trying to increase clocks tho I'd have thought they'd cut 2 clusters.
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The cards they were showing off as the "GTX360" were 448SP - they were having to increase the SPs because they couldn't get the clocks they were wanting - so its possible the 470 will be 480SP but lower clocks and the 480 will be the small number of hand picked parts that happen to make 512SP with the higher clocks.
Which would be interesting as it would be a lottery then - get a "good" clocker 470 and you've almost got yourself a 480, get a bad one and your taken quite a hit.
Which would be interesting as it would be a lottery then - get a "good" clocker 470 and you've almost got yourself a 480, get a bad one and your taken quite a hit.
I'd just wait and see what happens. The Fermi may bring down prices of ATI's cards, so would save you money in the long run.
What this man says
. The new nVidia cards might be better than expected (unlikely seeing as they would be shouting from the top of the world about how great they are if they were much better than ATIs cards) or they might make ATI drop their prices. It is worth waiting in my opinion.
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Are you talking about the 5970 Enhanced Edition? I don't think that will be the real 5990, it's just a 5970 clocked higher with more RAM and better cooling.
I believe 5990 will be 5890 X2, and 5890 will be a real improvement on 5870, with more stream processors etc.