GTX 470 & 480 Pricing + Specs!

[Duran]

At this moment in time them balls taste real good I hope NV do crucify all the doubters/haters and bring out cards that rock big time, it looks unlikely but you never know.

you're weird

 

[RavenXXX2]

You're dumb.?

 

[Lightnix]

$499 that's about £330 for a 480..That will do me just fine

That's if the $499 in right.

I dunno man, those £265 5870s seem pretty tempting, too.

 

[jigger]

I was about to buy one this morning. Must resist and wait for the second gen DX11, or at least wait and see what the 5890 is like.

 

[Freddie1980]

Assuming those prices are true you can take a stab at UK pricing by looking at ATI's pricing strategy when they the launched the HD5870 and HD5850 which were priced as follows ;

HD5870 $399/£299
HD5850 $299/£199

Now assuming the VR Zone article is correct the 480 GTX & 470 GTX pricing is likely to be ;

480 GTX $499/£399
470 GTX $349/£249

At £249 the 470 GTX would make a good a semi decent buy since the HD5850 is now retailing at £230 mark so another £15 gets you 5%-10% more performance.

 

[Orangey]

/thread after DM's post tbh.

 

[Ksanti]

I don't really care about any of these, the 470 may be nice, as may the 480, but the 295 still beats out the 480 except on DX11 support, and 2 5850's still look to beat a single 480.

I've kinda gone off nvidia since the GT200 cards, now they're just selling at riculously high prices, and even nvidia's own benchmarks aren't particularly flattering of the 400 cards.

I'd rather pay for a graphics card than nvidia's marketing policy and company bribing tbh

 

[Lightnix]

Assuming those prices are true you can take a stab at UK pricing by looking at ATI's pricing strategy when they were the launched the HD5870 adn HD5850 were priced as follows ;

HD5870 $399/£299
HD5850 $299/£199

Now assuming the VR Zone article is correct the 480 GTX & 470 GTX pricing is likely to be

480 GTX $499/£399
470 GTX £349/£249

At £249 the 470 GTX would make a good a semi decent buy since the HD5850 is now retailing at £230 mark so another £15 gets you 5%-10% more performance.

I think the GTX 470 price is pretty optimistic given a straight conversion from $349+VAT is about £270. I could see the GTX 480 price being right though. I reckon it'll probably be about £300 and £400 for each card respectively at this point.

 

[RavenXXX2]

If availability is as crap as it is said to be, add another 100 notes to them prices.

 

[han_solo]

Since when did the 295 beat the 480? From the benches he's i'v seen, the 5870 throws punches with the 295 making the 480 certainly faster than the 295 right.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Wait for the reviews, I should hope it beats out the 295 by atleast 30%, but we shall see soon enough.

 

[jigger]

I don't really care about any of these, the 470 may be nice, as may the 480, but the 295 still beats out the 480 except on DX11 support, and 2 5850's still look to beat a single 480.

I've kinda gone off nvidia since the GT200 cards, now they're just selling at riculously high prices, and even nvidia's own benchmarks aren't particularly flattering of the 400 cards.

I'd rather pay for a graphics card than nvidia's marketing policy and company bribing tbh

Since when did the 295 beat the 480? From the ben he's i'v seen, the 5870 throws punches with the 295 making the 480 certainly faster than the 295 right.

The man has a point. A 5870 falls a little short of a conclusive victory over a gtx295 I'm told. Things could be very close.

 

[Lokken86]

I was about to buy one this morning. Must resist and wait for the second gen DX11, or at least wait and see what the 5890 is like.

Do you know is there anything concrete on the 5890 yet? Is it def getting released?

 

[mattyfez]

Nvision magazine state the following:

480 cuda cores
32xAA called 'coverage sampling aa'
1,536mb ddr5 ram (1,280mb for the 470)

full spec to be anounced on 26th march at geforce.com/gtx400

 

[Wilderbeast]

Its still stating 512sp on the NV website, can they really change it so late in the game?

 

[Broken Hope]

http://forums.vr-zone.com/7790889-post30.html

Sorry, it should be 480 SP. My source got a little mixed up. They are too busy making the cards right now I heard the retail availability got delayed but the launch still stands on March 26th for now. NV will decide tonight whether to push back the launch date. There will be enough cards to go around i heard.

Updated with final clocks too :

GeForce GTX 480 : 480 SP, 700/1401/1848MHz core/shader/mem, 384-bit, 1536MB, 295W TDP, US$499

GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 607/1215/1674MHz core/shader/mem, 320-bit, 1280MB, 225W TDP, US$349

 

[SKILL]

If that's real then it's Ouch yet again for nvidia, less SP's than expected, with a higher than rumoured TDP (295W for a single GPU, the 5970 is 292W isn't it?)

Still just a week till we'll know 100% for sure, but that looks to continue the 'hot and not massively faster than 5870' line we've been seeing for a while...

 

[Tweaker]

Isnt the memory clock too low, this is GDDR5 right

 

[Dark Sun]

When will pre-orders start?

 

[SKILL]

Not till it's officially released, eg a 26th march at the earliest.

Hadn't noticed the memory speed, but considering it's a 384-bit bus compared to (iirc) the 256-bit bus on the 5870, but seemingly without a significantly higher gpu throughput it kinda makes sense to have 'slow' memory as it'll cut down on power usage (and cost possibly)