I wouldn't be suprised if we would see GF104-refresh..with smaller power consumption sooner or later.
GF104 was rushed in to the markets and it's still A1-silicon .. first working version of that GPU. I think this is the first time when they put A1-GPU to cards that are sold to customers.
http://techpowerup.com/126702/ASUS_Working_on_ARES_II_Dual_GTX_480_Graphics_Accelerator.html
Yippers.. Our friends at Asus are working on Mars II with two GTX 480 cards crammed in to one. It seems that they'll need three 8 pin power connectors for this one.. enough connectors for 525W :P...
Maybe they are naming these cards according to their 64-bit performance?
GTX 465's 64-bit performance is 1/8 from it's 32-bit and GTX 460's 1/12.
GTX 460 32-bit: 907 GFLOP
GTX 465 32-bit: 855 GFLOP
GTX 460 64-bit: 75.5 GFLOP
GTX 465 64-bit: 106.9GFLOP
Obviously this is not...
Nice that Nvidia got GF104 right on their very first attempt..it's rare that they can get A1 version of GPU to cards that are actually sold. GF100's third version (A3) made it to 480, 470 and 465..and it doesn't work as well as it should. These GPUs that we see on these reviews were made on...
I've had both 5770 and GTX 260 216SP and GTX 260 was more silent in every occasion. On idle there's not much difference, but on load..oh boy that GTX 260 remained silent, but HD5770 made this loud "hum"
In EU countries:
-Contact your shop. These shops have instructions for this RMA
-Shop has to always pay those shipping costs, both ways.
*If you have bought card from some other country than yourse you have to pay for that shipping initially. You have to place receipt of that shipping to to...
http://www.donanimhaber.com/GeForce_GTX_480_ATi_HD_5970e_yakin_performans_sergileyebilir-18363.htm
GTX 470 - $500
- Would be only 20-25% faster than GTX 285 -> would lose against HD 5870 with clear margin
- $100 more expensive than HD 5870
GTX 480 - $600
-Close to HD 5970 performance...
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/02/20/semiaccurate-gets-some-gtx480-scores/
So GTX 480 would be just 5% faster than HD5870. Not that great when you consider that GTX 480 is much more expensive to make than HD5970.
That May release would be the best case scenario. That Q2 last until July 31st .
Also these are just high end models. No mainstream or anything on sight.
If those memory channels carry that identical data..then how does that scaling happens? Those channels can transfer that 233GB/s of data, but only 111.9GB/s of different data.
111.9GB/s to be exact (Both GPUs have their own memory banks, but data in those banks are always identical..also data sent trough their own memory channels are therefore identical
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111.9GB/s is the effective memory bandwidht for GTX 295
Tesla C1060 got 3.52 FPS on their double precision simulation
Fermi got 18 fps on same thing.
There was mentioned that it will have 4.8GHz GDDR5 memory onboard - 230.4GB/s
http://vr-zone.com/articles/-rumour-nvidia-gt300-architecture-details-revealed/7763.html?doc=7763
And according to this one guy..the codename for that upcoming GPU is GF100.
GF100 would have over 3 billion transistors; most likely 3.2 billion. Diagram suggested 384-bit memory channel.
Both are made with TSMC's 40nm process, but RV870 has over 60% yield. It's funny how some sources now claim that Charlie would be too optimistic: That Nvidia wouldn't even have any kind of G300 chip ready! These are saying that Nvidia would complete their engineering samples in January 2010
I don't think any of you would be intrested, but Nvidia added "Computer Shader"-support for their new WHQL Windows 7 drivers. That's one of the new DX11 features..
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090819PD216.html
Apparently Nvidia has said good bye to those marks and simplified the way those cards will be named. First new card with this way of naming will be GeForce 210.
Well those marks were becomming more of like extra lenght for card names these...
GTX 260 (192SP) can beat 9800GX2 when you turn up the candy mark
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9800 GX2 should beat dual 8800 GTS 640MB
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GTX 275 should be much faster than 2x8800GTS 640MB
GT 220 has one feature that will make it sure that it won't reach 9600 GSO levels: Memory bandwidht.
25.3GB/s is actually worse than 9500GT's (25.6GB/s)..and 9500GT was badly bottlenecked by it's memory bandwidht. Because of this memory bandwidht thingy I don't understand why did they put 48...
Of course all Nvidia cards after dreadful FX 5800 Ultra have pushed air also inside the case. In original GTX 295 design it pushed less air out of the case.
What do I think? I think that I'd see nightmares of my good old Geforce4 TI4400 and it's horrendeous cooler (noisy and ineffective.. installed this ultra cheap passive cooler on it many years ago and GPU ran cooler after that :) )