Tuesday, February 2nd 2010
NVIDIA's First DirectX 11 Accelerators are GeForce GTX 480 and 470
A tweet on NVIDIA's Twitter account reveals that the company's first DirectX 11 compliant consumer graphics products will be named GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470, against popular opinion that they could make for the GeForce GTX 300 series. The most likely reason for this could be that the company has released mobile graphics products under the GeForce GT 3xx series which are based on its GT21x series GPUs which are DirectX 10.1 compliant. It would be hence easier to make out that DirectX 11 products start in the 400 series.
The two are based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU which physically has 512 CUDA cores (shader units), a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. While the GTX 480 is likely the full-featured part, it remains to be seen how NVIDIA carves out the GTX 470 SKU. An enquiry by AnandTech confirmed the authenticity of the Twitter account.
Source:
AnandTech
The two are based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU which physically has 512 CUDA cores (shader units), a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, and DirectX 11 compliance. While the GTX 480 is likely the full-featured part, it remains to be seen how NVIDIA carves out the GTX 470 SKU. An enquiry by AnandTech confirmed the authenticity of the Twitter account.
81 Comments on NVIDIA's First DirectX 11 Accelerators are GeForce GTX 480 and 470
At least were not like ATI and over producing to many cards in 1 series.
Yeh thats what i said, How many diffrent cards are in the HD 4000 series and why on gods name do they need so many.
ATI 5000 series still wins. and w00ter you seem like a nvidia fanboy, i really like nvidia, but id rather use a HD 5850 then my GTX 260, sorry bro :D
Its about time they fixed the naming scheme though as it was really getting out of hand, Im excited to see how much this chip roflstomps the 5870 and how much it can catch up to the 5970
Im not a nvidia fanboy, read the post your quoating
Im all about the purple dude, and purple rapes!
Next gen Wii (Wii HD?) needs to use fermi for the GPU.
why? Wii... 'Firm' ... cough.
Its not even very big news (or at least, I dont think so) so having a full-blown press release would be pointless, not to mention the fact it would piss people off. People just want to see cards at this stage, I cant imagine people hanging onto every word during a press conference about a name...
If they drag it out one little bit at a time, the name/product stays in media for longer, thus giving them greater public knowledge of the product, and making their investors shit their pants less over no new products in so long.
The way Nvidia's going, <i>inflation</i> could be a factor here -- by the time fermi comes out the dollar could be worth a lot less. The GTX 480 might end up being $899 or something.
$549 $449 (and $349 for GTX 460 if/when they make one $299 for GTS 450 and $249 GT 440).
On top of that even with the big die and low yields the card won't cost more than $200 to produce. Cypress costs way less than $150 according to Demerjian and TheBrightSideOfNews (each with his own sources) and the retail price is just the one they decided to put. Fermi will cost $200 to produce? But the retail price will be whatever they choose to be. They could decide to capitalize on Tesla and Quadros and sell Fermi based GeForces really cheap in order to expand Fermi installed base, which would be good and necessary to move their GPGPU initiative ahead.