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

I don't see why people care about who sold what when comparing the virtues of competing products. People have bad taste: Britney Spears sells loads of records, Halo games set sales records despite being the same, naff movies and tv shows get endless sequels and seasons...

Years of marketing mind-control are to thank for Nvidia selling ANY Fermis to regular old gamers. Meanwhile those of us who don't care just buy what makes sense at the time...
 
Nivek said:
Fastest GPU on the planet, accept it. No If's or buts will change that.
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Is it really though? Look at the head room for higher clocks you have on the cypress gpu's. The fermi gpu's have none really as they will melt your pc and burn down your house if you clock them higher. I think both pushed to there limits of what can be brought to the market cypress may still be the fastest gpu out there with more ram added.
 
Ignore the NV fanboi/ATI hater, below quote says what all that needs to be said about it.

Nivek said:
About time, ATI really are a dog**** company when it comes to new technologies i.e. 5xxx = old crap with dx11 stuck on.
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Fastest GPU is the 5970, 480 is marginally better than a 5870 in most cases and that's just sad, if fanbois want to claim it is a win, fine, go play with your 95c at load, 300 watt power draining embarrassment.
 
Strife212 said:
No, it's the most powerful GPU out, people are just slamming it because it's really expensive and to make themselves feel better about their cards :/
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It is SLOWER than 2x5850 which would cost the same, so it is SLOWER for the money
 
Strife212 said:
No, it's the most powerful GPU out, people are just slamming it because it's really expensive and to make themselves feel better about their cards :/
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People are slamming it because for all the time NV had, they haven't exactly capitalised and the stuff that Charlie etc were posting has turned true despite the fervent defending from the NV street team.
 
Strife212 said:
No, it's the most powerful GPU out, people are just slamming it because it's really expensive and to make themselves feel better about their cards :/
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Well, that and the fact it sounds like a jet taking off, it consumes more power than most dual-GPU cards, it's only about ~13% faster than the next fastest card and costs about 50% more. Oh, it's also 6 months late. I'd say there are some pretty valid reasons
 
Fair enough for most people with a budget getting a 5870 is better idea but with the rubbish people are posting you would think GTX 480 was the new Geforce FX.
 
From a site that has not been bought by NV.


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Yeah marginally better if that..ROFL..NV fanbois in denial, they are all over youtube crying.

You know, I wouldn't even call it the best single GPU, it's on par with a 5870 IMO for the most part, clock the 5870 and the 480 looks even worse of a deal than it already is.
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Nivek said:
The Fermi 480 will Fastest GPU on the planet when Nvidia release it, accept it. No If's or buts will change that.
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Fixed.

I don't think anyone is arguing that it wont be the fastest card. Even if we dismiss all its short comings and and just look at the performance of fermi we see a huge problem in that its not put anywhere near a big enough gap between itself and the competition. Yes it probably will be the fastest single GPU card once it becomes available. Unfortunately that lead will be slight and short lived.

Fermi would have needed to be released around the time of the 4870 x2 to have been forgiven its problems and look at just from a performance point of view IMO.
 
Yeah, seems like a shocking amount of denial on here right now. To be honest, and I do mean this, I think you would have to mentally abnormal to buy either the 470 or 480.

Even if money was no issue to you, there are better ways to spend it and have better performance and less heat and less noise, and that's not even talking about the electric bill 'cos money is no issue in this scenario.

This round is a huge fail for the green team, but hopefully it'll kick their arse into gear to give some better solutions.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
From a site that has not been bought by NV.


*cherry picked benchmarks*

Yeah marginally better if that..ROFL..NV fanbois in denial, they are all over youtube crying.
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I'm sorry but you cannot deny that it is the fastest single GPU card out at the moment(or whenever the hell it becomes available).

Yes, it is hot,greedy on power, costs a lot of money and i wouldnt buy one but you have got to be silly to not see that there is a market for the 480.

I am not a fanboy, in fact i'm close to hitting the order button on a 5870 tonight but it is very clear that Fermi is being overly bashed.

I would agree with anyone though who wants to overly criticise the 470. At it's current price point it is in no mans land :confused:
 
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Problem is, it's only marginally cheaper than the 5970 and these days, single/dual GPU makes no real difference.

It's like the AMD dual core snobbery a few years ago.
 
Jono8 said:
I'm sorry but you cannot deny that it is the fastest single GPU card out at the moment.

Yes, it is hot,greedy on power, costs a lot of money and i wouldnt buy one but you have got to be silly to not see that there is a market for the 480.

I am not a fanboy, in fact i'm close to hitting the order button on a 5870 tonight but it is very clear that Fermi is being overly bashed.
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To be fair it doesn't seem a clear out victory after looking at and sifting through all the results. For the point of arguing though I would say that Fermi has the edge, if you tested any 100 games it would win more than 51 IMO.
 
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