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1st Fermi review
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Maybe some missed in the OP.
Lol. Make that £392 inc VAt as a direct conversion plus a little bit more as always plus the fact there is a chance that there will be abut 20 cards available for the 2 weeks and call it £500.
I think I am the only person here who thinks anything more than £200 for a graphics card is insaneIdeally £150 is better
No you're not
I've spent a fortune on top-end graphics hardware over the years but it's getting to a point where performance has hit a plateau. Unless you want to drive huge resolutions then £200 buys you all the performance you need. I have a GTX275 in my main rig and a GTX280 in my second machine and they both do fine with anything I throw at them at 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 respectively. Sure I could get even more frames by spending more money but, beyond a certain point, it's just not worth it.
I actually downgraded to the GTX275 from a 5850 after that was RMA'd in 2 days flat due to crappy driver problems. I don't dispute that the 5850 is significantly more powerful than the 275 but, when actually playing games, I'm hard pressed to tell the difference 90% of the time.
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Ok so off that review...I don't see many situations why you would want a GTX 480 badly, unless you have Nvidia tatooed on your scrotum.
It is not a good buy at all (assuming a high price point)
The challenge for Nvidia is really to get the cost down and make it more efficient, that power requirement is crazy, I wonder what all the Nvidia fanbots are thinking when they slated the 2900 XT for having power load, high TDP etc etc, then go and defend Nvidia...some of whom are here!!
It is not a good buy at all (assuming a high price point)
The challenge for Nvidia is really to get the cost down and make it more efficient, that power requirement is crazy, I wonder what all the Nvidia fanbots are thinking when they slated the 2900 XT for having power load, high TDP etc etc, then go and defend Nvidia...some of whom are here!!
Well since the HXS thread has disappeared, may as well invade this one.
Well physx, name me two decent titles coming out utilizing it.......cuda I couldn't care less about, my eight thread i7 does the job just fine, 3D is a gimmick IMO which ATI already supports, and 3D surround is a poor mans eyefinity.
Well physx, name me two decent titles coming out utilizing it.......cuda I couldn't care less about, my eight thread i7 does the job just fine, 3D is a gimmick IMO which ATI already supports, and 3D surround is a poor mans eyefinity.
The site/shop it was based on, not the contents of the reiview.
Even if the 480 was priced lower than a 5870, I would not buy a 480 because of the temperatures and also the power consumption, plus nvidia features are pretty crap tbh e.g. physx.
plus with one 5870 or one 5970 I could use eyefinity where as with fermi you need 2 cards so that is around 850 pounds lol.
plus with one 5870 or one 5970 I could use eyefinity where as with fermi you need 2 cards so that is around 850 pounds lol.
If you're just playing games then i agree the GTX480 is not really wildly exciting (though it's clearly pretty decent). I think Fermi will do really well though for GPGPU duty.
3DS Max and Maya both have Physx plugins, and CUDA is a really big draw for a lot of people in many different fields. High end 3D is a very profitable market and Nvidia totally dominate there, even though ATI have perfectly 'ok' workstation cards, they are just so far behind in software/support.
An no offence but your i7 is no match for a high end graphics card in any sort of heavy data parallel workload.
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I really hope ATI lower there prices to really thrash nvidia (however not too much so that they don't go out of business, need them so that ATI keep there prices low lol) but nvidia really do need to learn how to price there cards, more so for there own sake.
I don't think we will get any unbiased reviews at all tonight, I think Nvidia will only give cards to those sites they think will follow the benchmarking "rules". I'm not going to pay much attention until someone buys one in the shops benches it against the ATI cards with latest drivers and in games without physx etc, so you know there isn't any funny business.
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Those companies that offer such a performance boost are already working with OpenCL implementations of their software.
While it's relevant now, its time is limited.
Yeah but OpenCL will take a LONG time to mature, that's the only shortfall of opensource API's. CUDA is currently in a similar position of D3D in the gaming world. DirectCompute may turn out to be the better API over either of them but we'll just have to wait and see.
The best thing that could happen would be for Larrabbe to arrive in very good shape and it would make all of the competing API's null and void.
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Apple is apart of the OpenCL consortium, Apple have been buying up all the 48XX stock and sticking them in their PCs. Doesn't take a genius to realise that OpenCL is going to become a big deal. I bet Intel will also adopt OpenCL on their Paralell compute device "Larabee".