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***Nvidia GTX480 & 470 reviews & discussion***

I've yet to see any meaningful use of CUDA in a game, but if you want it then stick in an old NV card into a 3rd slot and you have CUDA for games :)
 
Kharbyne said:
Wish i had bought one 6 months ago rather than waiting till now
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Yeah... I got mine when it was first released and have not had a single problem with it. It is a storming performer and doesn't need a nuclear reactor to power it. It's also a very good overclocker - for £190 it was a great purchase. :)
 
rypt said:
I've yet to see any meaningful use of CUDA in a game, but if you want it then stick in an old NV card into a 3rd slot and you have CUDA for games :)
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Did not say CUDA for games as CUDA is not used in games and you are just trying to provoke a reaction out of people that use CUDA so i suggest you stop poking the bits that that you are getting your thrills from :rolleyes: <--- Yes rolleyes.
 
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http://www.techspot.com/review/263-nvidia-geforce-gtx-480/page13.html

All that power makes for one seriously hot graphics card as well. The 97 degree load temperature was the maximum temperate that we recorded during our tests, and had the fan spinning so fast things started sliding across my desk towards the test system. The GeForce GTX 480 was truly deafening when running at full load.

Letting the card sit at the Windows 7 desktop for 20 minutes saw the temperature drop only to 65 degrees. When it came time to remove the GTX 480 from our test system, I had to wear a pair of gloves to avoid any possible burns or dropping the extremely hot graphics card. The PCI Express power cables were amazingly soft from all the heat that had been thrown at them.

In short, the GeForce GTX 480 is around 11% hotter than the Radeon HD 5870 under load and a whopping 71% or 21 degrees hotter at idle.
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^ So it looks like nvidia have fluffed up this time, really was expecting something slightly revolutionary, all the hype to keep people from buying a 5870 & this is what they come up with, hope it doesn't finish them off as a high end gpu manufacturer though else ati cards might become crazily priced.
 
The hitler video is absolutely brilliant :D

To be honest - Fermi was exactly what we were expecting, 5-10% faster than a 5870 in some cases, hot and power hungry. There were no surprises.
Yes - the green goblin can claim the worlds fastest single gpu card, but at a price point that no-one will want based on the current ati offerings.

I was a bit gutted as I was hoping for a stonking card which would then mean that there might be a glut of 285/295's appearing on the bay.

Im stick with nvidia as seti is important to me so having a card that can't crunch seti is not an option, so my trusty 8800GT will live a little bit longer
 
To be honest I think both sides have dropped the ball.

Nvidia have hot, power hungry cards that are horribly overpriced especially the 480.

ATI still have stock problems months after the launch.Their cards are virtually impossible to get at RRP and the 5970 is hard to get at all.
 
i got a question:

recently bought XFX 5870 AVP edition (aka stock and reference) from a competitor for £234. (they advertised £199 ex VAT) and i am very chuffed that GTX470 isn't worth buying at the moment.

i miss CUDA and PhysX goodness, is it worth not selling my 2 year old GTX260-216 and use it as a secondary processor?

or am i better off selling that for £90 and get a lower performance, but less power hungry card such as 9600GT/GT240. (was looking at single slot, low power cards)
 
Thing I dont understand is looking at some benchies the 5870 and 480 is still neck and neck, both within 5-10fps of each other some larger of course on both sides.

Nvidia should have positioned the 480, against the 5870
around £300, and the 470 against the 5850 at around £200 that way they wouldnt be such fail instead they have sorta priced and compared it inbetween atis 2 top affordable cards which dont make sense, cos there evenly matched and then 5970 also exist !
 
Have to say from a sales point of view first day of NVIDIA 400 series has been very good in fact better than the the ATi 5*** launch and the ATi launch was a hard launch where we had stock to sell.

Please bare in mind that I am not saying which card is best. Just wanted to share my view from a business point of view not a tech based one.

From what I am reading the reviews are fairly confusing give it a few weeks and I am confident the better card will show itself more clearly.
 
Fatboy said:
Have to say from a sales point of view first day of NVIDIA 400 series has been very good in fact better than the the ATi 5*** launch and the ATi launch was a hard launch where we had stock to sell.

Please bare in mind that I am not saying which card is best. Just wanted to share my view from a business point of view not a tech based one.

From what I am reading the reviews are fairly confusing give it a few weeks and I am confident the better card will show itself more clearly.
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Well that is good for OCUK and lets face it that it isn't surprising either that they'll still sell well.
 
Hulahoops said:
Well that is good for OCUK and lets face it that it isn't surprising either that they'll still sell well.
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i find it baffling tbh. if i was on the hunt for a card and after reading those reviews i'd save £150 and buy a 5870 or spend an extra £30 for a 5970.

dissapointed that (in my opinion) Nvidia have failed so badly with these cards. the performance isn't all that, but the power, noise and heat. OMG :eek:
 
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