EVGA Shows GeForce GTX 480, 470 Boxes Too

[Hellbound]

Yes yes, box art is nifty... But what about the price?...

 

[maynardman10]

Look how nice our box is....How sad. Is it just me, or does Nvidia seem desperate to everybody else?

 

[Gian124]

This late in the game and no benchmarks? I am a little disappointed and concerned that they are focusing on marketing / packaging without any substance if they are so close for sale.

Intel allowed benchmarking releases of its upcoming processor (also announced at GDC)... and all we have of these new cards is synthetic benchmarks developed by Nvidia to showcase what they designed their card to do versus what ATI did not design their card to do.

I am building a new high end system, once the core i7 980X & Asus Rampage III Extreme go retail... but without substantial benchmarking, I'll likely settle for an ATI card (although I've always preferred Nvidia). It seems as though their card under performs and they want to focus on potentials rather than real-world. Fine if that is the case, just allow benchmark sites to release results and let us know... rather than hide the substance and show us cardboard packaging that will go in the trash after install.

 

[kyosho]

"then ill have to do the same because my ass is a higher end model and will out perform yours."
Really? Let's see some benchmarks before you talk big. :-D

 

[megamanx00]

Wonder what the performance will be like. I'm not as interested in the box art.

 

[Tindytim]

I hope these boxes have good Linux driver support. That's what I always hate about ATI boxes.

[citation][nom]kyosho[/nom]"then ill have to do the same because my ass is a higher end model and will out perform yours." Really? Let's see some benchmarks before you talk big. :-D[/citation]
My ass actually outputs 4 pounds of product a day, in 3 different flavors. The burst rate is usually 3 ounces a second, with a high as large as 12 if the product is "less substantial".

 

[micky_lund]

more box art..still nothing from inside the box yet...

 

[restatement3dofted]

These companies don't seem to realize that the only advertising most of us care about is performance. Show me a card that outperforms whatever else is available, and I will consider buying it. I don't care what sort of box you put it in, I don't care about your ad campaigns, I don't care if you slap a sticker of a girl on the card itself. Numbers motivate me.

As another commenter said, drop your advertising team and the price of the cards with it.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Guess they were listening. This box looks much better then the other one.

 

[tpi2007]

Now, judging by both Palit's and EVGA's boxes that the memory both cards have is more or less a solid fact, it will be be interesting to see if these odd memory sizes will actually be used to good effect on games.

I'm not quite sure, but the last time I saw some benchamarks with Nvidia cards that has 768Mb of ram at high resolutions, they lost to 1GB cards, and made no difference compared to 512Mb cards.

The thing is: do games actually make use of these odd GPU memory sizes to it's fullest or they just use memory at predefined more or less standardised chuncks like 256MB, 512, 1GB, 2GB ?

I mean, Nvidia has to have these strange memory sizes because of the memory bandwidth being like 300+ bits, but it it used or will it just be a necessary technicality that necessarily increases the price of the card and serving as good marketing because they have more memory than other cards.

Does anyone know the answer ?

 

[aeronaut]

It just shows that people want this card so bad that different manufacturer's box designs merit separate articles. Me, I just want it to do CUDA simulations in physics, ....

 

[tpi2007]

Hmmm, did anyone notice something I just did ? Both boxes say DDR5 instead of GDDR5... they could be fake boxes after all...

 

[swifty_morgan]

Wow, 2 strange boxes in one week. I'm on a roll. Prices and performance people, prices and performance.

 

[luis1793]

newssss, they just discovered america....

 

[ar09]

does anyone know how much is it going to cost, the 480?

 

[Mousemonkey]

does anyone know how much is it going to cost, the 480?

Someone knows, they just aren't sharing that info with us.

 

[Caffeinecarl]

Come on already and show me the card! I can't use pretty box art to play a game!

 

[Straydog]

[citation][nom]tpi2007[/nom]Hmmm, did anyone notice something I just did ? Both boxes say DDR5 instead of GDDR5... they could be fake boxes after all...[/citation]

lol this is right, just noticed it to, either they were fools and cant remember that is supposed to be GDDR5 or its just fake boxes.

 

[invlem]

Good to see everyone has mastered the art of box making.... How about card making guys?

Seriously this is getting old, either show us the video card or don't show us anything at all.

 

[pocketdrummer]

The GTX480 better be awesome and shorter than 290mm... else I'll be getting an ATI or GTX470. Time will tell.

 

[chefboyeb]

If only boxart could have me ripping through Crysis... Smdh...

 

[jfem]

Maybe TH can do a survey on boxart customer satisfaction then rank them from highest to lowest.

 

[chefboyeb]

Once upon a time... There were some damn boxes... lol

 

[icemunk]

Hey look, mediocre boxes for a mediocre card

 

[d-block]

[citation][nom]tpi2007[/nom]Hmmm, did anyone notice something I just did ? Both boxes say DDR5 instead of GDDR5... they could be fake boxes after all...[/citation]

that doesn't mean anything. my 5870 says ddr5 on the side of the box too