Zotac Readies GeForce GTX 480 Amp! Edition Graphics Card

[shevanel]

Seems like a step backwards to me. i mean c'mon what was the last triple slot card to hit the market?

 

[Wile E]

Seems like a step backwards to me. i mean c'mon what was the last triple slot card to hit the market?

Palit Revolution 700 4870x2, iirc.

 

[Tartaros]

Here's a review of the cooler:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/zalman-vf3000n-review/

It's not that expensive, £33/€38/$50 (most likely less in US, just straight conversion)

It will be 50 euros. For sure.

 

[Zubasa]

A GTX275 pulls more than 200W+ too and there was a GTX295 isn't it? In fact, the GTX470 doesn't suck much more power than the GTX275 at all.

The point is the kind of performance it will get
If it isn't going to be too much faster than a GTX 480 and a 5970 then why bother?

 

[naram-sin]

no its you yanks that have it wrong. us and teh Europeans use day-month-yeah going from what changes the most so on and so forth. The logical and CORRECT way the american way month-day-year makes no sense,

though what i also find odd delta is you being in Indiana yet your pic is an Australian race series.

now back OT that looks kickarse. now have they overclocked it? cause i thought the AMP! series where thier overclocked cards

Actually, I think it doesn't matter who's wrong but who's practical. I am European and i find it very hard to name files with dd-mm-yyyy format, for example, and then sort them by name, appropriately. In this case it always sort them by days. Which is useless, if you ask me. But when I format names like mm-dd-yyyy, then they are always sorted chronologically when sorting them by names. Sorry for the OT.

Back to the useless POS three-slot card by Zotac. Don't even bother trying to calculate a power envelope of SLI config with two of these. No fanboyism here, but I'd rather go with RandomBrand 2*2 slot, 2*5970 CFX config FTW. And keep it well below 1kW... not just below.

nVidia screwed it up with 4xx, technologically it just leaves a bitter taste of decadence, not enough innovation and poor bang4buck, I think...

EDIT: btw, good point Zubasa. Regarding power draw, I don't think that even Eurocom won't be able to cram two of these in a 'laptop', even M-versions.

 

[Benetanegia]

The point is the kind of performance it will get
If it isn't going to be too much faster than a GTX 480 and a 5970 then why bother?

Why wouldn't it be faster? 470 SLI scales wonderfully, hell Fermi as a whole scales wonderfully, slightly better than AMD cards overall, so why wouldn't a card based on 2 GTX470's be faster than a 5970 (which is mostly 2x5850) when a single 470 is overally 8% faster than a single 5850? And as to the 480, of course it would be much faster.

Oh BTW take it back since I didn't deserve it.

 

[my_name_is_earl]

The VF3000 cooler hit these card b4 it releases? What BS. I'm waiting for it but I don't want to buy a new card.

 

[OnBoard]

The VF3000 cooler hit these card b4 it releases? What BS. I'm waiting for it but I don't want to buy a new card.

Same thing happened with Accelero Xtreme, people were waiting those and first patch went to card makers. But it's out in a week and I doubt this card is out the same time

 

[Animalpak]

A single GTX 465 still pulls 200W+ and two of them sucks more power than even a 4870X2, so the answer is still no
Unless they clock down the 465, but in that case why bother?

Agreed ohwf... F**** nvidia

 

[WarEagleAU]

Pretty quick with the changes from the original design on the new Fermi cards. Coolness.