Nvidia Touts (Quiet) 'Fastest DX11 GPU on Planet!'

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I thought the 480 already was the fastest DX11 (single) GPU on the market. They must be talking about a new dual GPU card to compete with the 5970, which would make sense if the transistor count is supposed to be lower for each GPU.

Some people should really research vapor chambers before they go spouting off junk they obviously don't know about. My old Toxic HD3870 (single slot) ran cooler than a reference dual slot cooler before the fan died. Now with no fan or plastic shroud on the card it still runs around 70-75C with just the side case fan blowing air in it's general direction, and it runs Folding@Home 24/7 when I'm not gaming. A vapor chamber is hardly a new idea and it's well proven IMHO.
 
@mousemonkey

and all the others.... it's not about whether vapor chambers has been done or not, the single fact remains this new GPU will 'Require' liquid cooling, that's not an after market option there, it's telling me this thing's thermal load is significant enough that it will not survive without one, can't wait to see the power requirement on this one, i really hope that Mega Watt PSU dont become the norm.....
 
47db is still a good improvement. You have to remember db is a scale just like earthquakes. So the sound should be about ten times less which is perceived by the human ear as about half the previous cards loudness. Then inside a case it should dampen a bit more. (much better than the low power hairdryer running next to me)

100C is the boiling point of water at sea level. I imagine they have somewhat of a vacuum in there and hence water inside the cooling chamber would be a good deal less than 100c.

I am more concerned with the effects of gravity on the card. Having your graphics card in the wrong position seems that it should affect the flow of the water and or leave air against the hot spot and your water on the fins. Perhaps they have something else (one-way outlets?) in there to aid against that.

Anyhow my computer is coming up on 4 years. So I look forward to whatever the tech companies put out in the next 12-18 months.
 
Okay, so I'm not that good with science and I accept your correction about the boiling point. I still wonder what would happen if the case would to be put sideways, or even upside down?
 

It was, this is the new one and it's not a dual GPU card.
@mousemonkey

and all the others.... it's not about whether vapor chambers has been done or not, the single fact remains this new GPU will 'Require' liquid cooling, that's not an after market option there, it's telling me this thing's thermal load is significant enough that it will not survive without one, can't wait to see the power requirement on this one, i really hope that Mega Watt PSU dont become the norm.....
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244w apparently.
 
You know, before you guys start asking the same, redundant, and already answered question of the card possibly reaching 100c, you may find your answers on page 1.

It doesn't hit 100c...seriously, use your damn brains. The man in the video literally said the heat and noise will be relatively low compared to what the standard and typical has been.


I look forward to having at least 2-3 people on page 3 be like, "OHHH MMMM GEEE, It reaches 100c?!?!?!?!? No wayz!!!"
 
[citation][nom]mousemonkey[/nom]Not if it's in a vacuum it doesn't, at 260mb the boiling point is about 69°C.[/citation]
Gee, the amount of memory affects the boiling point of water?

(yes, I do know what a millibar is. Just can't resist being silly, especially since my daughter is studying the Ideal Gas Law at the moment and I have moles coming out my ears.)
 
@WhySoBluePandaBear

when we saying relatively low heat, is that with or without the liquid cooling solution......

when they attach a liquid cooling as part of their reference design it tells me this thing is going be pushing some serious heat without it

and yes people who think that it needs to reach 100c for a liquid cooling solution to work are a little annoying, but not everyone has the learned understanding of thermal dynamics
 

No, you didn't. :pfff:


Why should your daughter studying give you cause to do strange (some might say slightly perverse) things with small woodland creatures? 😱
 
[citation][nom]xbeater[/nom]"It's a MILLION times better then the old GTX480! Although, thats not saying much since other things that were a MILLION times better then the old GTX480 included syphilis, and tuberculosis... and things like being on fire!"Perfect Description! Tell me if you know where this is from![/citation]

Top Gear of course...Jeremy Clarkson. I believe he was testing a Noble but I can't remember which one.
 
Look mom, I'm on Youtube! I was hoping they would give a few of those bad boys away as prizes. Instead they gave away GTX 460 768Mb cards. If anyone from PDX LAN 16.5 recorded the AMD presentation, please post that. It was fun. My friend and I each won 5750s. Some other people got 5870s. LAN parties = good times 😀
 
For this to work they're gonna have to invert the common orientation on graphics cards (GPU below), or else water's gonna boil up near the GPU and just won't come down.
 
[citation][nom]Restatement3dofTed[/nom]Hope that bad boy's adequately sealed - dropping the cash for the then-fastest DX11 GPU on the market, only to have its water chamber leak onto the rest of your $2000+ system would make for a bad day.[/citation]

I do gree but considering the technology behind heatpipes and the fact that most coolers these days com with them, I doubt it would leak.

Also, this is not the first GPU to use a vapor chamber to help dissipate heat. Sapphire had them on the HD4870 and HD4890 models which both were OCed as well so the design is probably good enough to use.
 
Maybe I missed something, but how does the water then fall back down onto the heat plate if "failing" is actually rising (remember that the heatsink is on the underside of the graphics card so it would have to go against gravity for the cooled water to come back into contact with the heat plate while the steam would be trying to rise up through the plate).

To me it would seem that the cooler would need to be place ontop of the card rather then the underside for this to work properly but I am only a layman so far be it from me to know the in's and outs of physics and how this thing really works.
 
Still with the "dual gpu - single slot" argument?!

Come on guys, nVidia also knows about being GPU king is given by slot counts, not GPU "cores" (yeah, yeah, they're not "cores"; bite me xD); just like in regular CPUs.

Cheers!
 
Nice to see Nvidia on top again.

Who would have thought that the NV580 would nail the 5970 in the benchmarks and still have space for oc'ing.

If you haven't seen the benchies try looking at "Europe" for details.
 
[citation][nom]ignanik@gmailcom[/nom]Wait , wait wait ... Am I the only one that is getting a deja vu here . He says its a brand new termal solution !!! Come on . here is a link that ati was testing it back in 2008 : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/r [...] 6523.html.[/citation]
I'm sorry, but where does he say that? Oh, and your link is broken...
 
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