Friday, March 19th 2010
GeForce GTX 400 Series Clock Speeds and Other Details Surface
Exactly a week ahead of releasing its GeForce GTX 400 series accelerators, NVIDIA held meetings with the press discussing the company's newest technologies, including GeForce GTX 400 series. Some lesser known details about the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 surfaced, among more known and established ones. To begin with, the GeForce GTX 480 is confirmed to have a CUDA core (shader core) count of 480. The GF100 core operates at 700 MHz, its shader domain at 1401 MHz, and the memory operates at 924 MHz (actual, 1848 MHz DDR, 3700 MHz effective). With a GDDR5 memory bus width of 384-bit, the effective memory bandwidth would be 173.4 GB/s.
The GeForce GTX 470, on the other hand, has 448 CUDA cores, clock speeds of 607 MHz core, 1215 MHz shader domain, and 837 MHz memory (actual, 1674 MHz DDR, 3348 MHz effective). With a GDDR5 memory bus width of 320-bit, the effective memory bandwidth would be 130.7 GB/s. While the GTX 480 has a board power of 295W, the GTX 470 has a board power of 225W. Another piece of information the source reveals is that internal testing by NVIDIA showed that the performance level to expect from the GeForce GTX 470 should be 5-10% higher than that of the ATI Radeon HD 5850. The GeForce GTX 480 should be expected to be just that much faster than the ATI Radeon HD 5870. It is also expected that the target price of the GeForce GTX 480 should be typically US $499, while the GTX 470 should go typically for US $349. Detailed reviews of the two should be up by this time, next week.Source: VR-Zone
The GeForce GTX 470, on the other hand, has 448 CUDA cores, clock speeds of 607 MHz core, 1215 MHz shader domain, and 837 MHz memory (actual, 1674 MHz DDR, 3348 MHz effective). With a GDDR5 memory bus width of 320-bit, the effective memory bandwidth would be 130.7 GB/s. While the GTX 480 has a board power of 295W, the GTX 470 has a board power of 225W. Another piece of information the source reveals is that internal testing by NVIDIA showed that the performance level to expect from the GeForce GTX 470 should be 5-10% higher than that of the ATI Radeon HD 5850. The GeForce GTX 480 should be expected to be just that much faster than the ATI Radeon HD 5870. It is also expected that the target price of the GeForce GTX 480 should be typically US $499, while the GTX 470 should go typically for US $349. Detailed reviews of the two should be up by this time, next week.Source: VR-Zone
82 Comments on GeForce GTX 400 Series Clock Speeds and Other Details Surface
If these cards are posed to beat the 5000 series around a bit, it wouldn't surprise me if ATI has a quick follow up in a 5890 flavour, or some "revamped" version of their cards . . .
Regarding the ATI drivers - I think more people have had problems since ATI has been focusing more on performance . . . which, IMHO, has a lot to do with the poll they ran almost a year ago, asking users (downloading drivers on their webpage) what they wanted more out of their drivers.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22988
The first slide from NV made me realise how insecure NV is with this card. If for example it's 3 ticks at tesselation versus 5870's one tick, how come it's only 5-10% better overall (from VR zone source?).
Good card, Hot card, Hungry card, Hyped card.
Espero que esto de para que los precios de las VGA's bajen!
Saludos!
Btw, doesn't OpenCL actually work on 58xx series?
btw, on a stable system, the ATi drivers dont have many bugs, you're bound to get some differences and problems, one side will have bugs that the other doesn't for games, but thats to be expected.
oh and that 3d vision exclusive to nVidia is a crock, the preview drivers already enable functionality just like that for the red team.
but enough fanboy antics, I do love nvidias driver layout over ati's, but I will continue to betray one side to the other whenever theyre down to have whatever GFX card is kicking butt at the time :rockout:
When the hell are we going to see some REAL benchmarks!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
if ati rolls out 5890, nvidia will have big problem. With that TDP of gtx480, i dont think there will be gtx485, unless there i big revamp in their chip
Somebodies making money. " This is a bussiness ".
Take a look at Newegg this morning. I had my cart ready to check out and for some reason they have jacked up prices on Nvidia cards 20-50 dollars, even the out of stock ones. Gee wonder why?????
Last monday I was set to put down 165.00 for a 260Gtx for a customer build and it was cheap.
I knew the new card release would do one of two things.
1. Bring prices down on older models (in time).
2. Cause Newegg to jack-up prices on existing stock to reduce loss.
They jumped the gun though, even the BFG 260Gtx that is not in stock that I was looking at (cuz I have one) is up to 205.00 BFG Tech BFGEGTX260MC896OCE. WTF!!!
This leaves no room for profit on my part. I payed 140.00 for it less than 4 months ago. 285's are hitting 380.00- 400.00 US.
I suppose their waiting on the idiot parade that is blindly shopping this next week.
Guess I'll sit this round out for awhile, till the smoke clears.
470 @ 607 MHz GPU, shader domain @ 1215 MHz and 837 MHz (actual, 1674 MHz DDR, 3348 MHz effective) memory. Board power @ 225w
Difference between the 480 and 470 is 2 clusters disabled (is that right?) and clock frequencies (sub: 2 memory chips per btarunr). The board power difference of 70w indicates some leakage issues IMO. Also, I am not to sure about the 480's overclock ability. It appears to be close to maxing out IMO. But we will see once the reviews of the retail product are out to know what it's overclock potential really is. As for the 470, there appears to be a huge amount of overclock potential. It may match the 480. But again we have to wait for reviews and hopefully user results.
NVIDIA`s EPIC FAIL
But if this were true then which one did they refer when they said 480 beat 5870 by a slight margin? :confused:
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/12/semiaccurate-wrong-about-nvidia-480gtx-power-use/
There are a huge amount of false leaks out there. We won't really know all the details until the official release and the NDA is lifted.