Benetanegia
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You can never say, i had quite a lot of high expectations for the GTX 480.
You can't say that nVidia scales better. 3x 5870s scale better than 3x GTX 480s.
The ARES is basically two 5870s pushed into one card. If nVidia did put two stock 480s in one card, its expected to have a 600W+ power consumption.
http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_480_SLI/images/power_maximum.gif
And trust me, I'm no ATi fanboy... I owned a GTX 295 before the 5xxx series and im hoping to switch back to nVidia if they release a powerful card within my expectations.
And 3xGTX470 scales even better than 3x5870 it's all about the limit of current CPUs (just trying to avoid bottleneck, whch is a wrongly understood and used term). The higher you go the less you will scale. Since 480 starts at 15% higher it reaches the limit sooner, but until that limit comes it scales clearly better. In your own link 78% for 2-480 SLI, 70% for 2x5870 Crossfire and counting on the CPU limitation 2xGTX470 would be close to 90% like has been shown in many many 470 SLI reviews around the net.
I don't think you are a fanboy and have not seen any sign of it or anything close to it. But it's common to hear the argument of doubling the power consumption and it's true, weird IMO but true in the case of Ati but it's not in Nvidia's case. You have the facts right there, just look at past cards.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-sli,2298-2.html
As you can see a GTX295 consumes much much less than 2x275 even when at same clocks. Bear in mind that's total power consumption so you actually have to extract something like 100w for the system in each of them, making the difference bigger on the GPU.
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