PICTURES: GeForce GTX 480 Stripped Apart

[nottheking]

Looks sexier by the day... A shame all the fears that it might turn out to be all empty.
[citation][nom]lauxenburg[/nom]And there's like one thing on tesselation.... =P Oh well.[/citation]
Naw, there's been about 50 or so articles on Tom's on tesselation. Pretty much every new generation of DirectX, and somebody crows how that it introduces it. It's like a running gag by now. I assure you, when DirectX 12 and 13 come... We'll be hearing how tesselation will be the "killer ap" for them, too. 😉

 

[dimar]

I wonder if it's possible to assemble a room heater using 4 cards SLI, with external PCI Express cable to PC. It can be made more powerful by adding more cards 🙂

 

[Asinger93]

Just a friendly note: Atomic was told to take down the article by NVIDIA for "NDA breech".

 

[liquidsnake718]

Marketing wise, this is too little too late, these should have come out at the latest a month or two ago, or even before Christmas in order to keep some fans at bay instead of buying a Cypress or radeon 5xxx card....

 

[renz496]

[citation][nom]Asinger93[/nom]Just a friendly note: Atomic was told to take down the article by NVIDIA for "NDA breech".[/citation]

lol. i'm still be able to see all 24 pictures from the atomic site yesterday XD

 

[darkguset]

[citation][nom]micr0be[/nom]i dont get it ... why don't i remember this much hype for ATI 5XXX series....[/citation]

Because the card was actually launched...

 

[Vader3]

What are they using for SLI? I only see a large top ribbon strip connection located at the top. Is that what thats for?

 

[darkguset]

+1 for Australian's ATOMIC!

 

[Blessedman]

willing to bet the delay was not in the chip itself, but designing the heat sink alone...

 

[climber]

[citation][nom]elie3000[/nom]lol and here come Fermi all nude, whats next?[/citation]
Fermi's Gone Wild, live at Fort Lauderdale.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

The photos are down. I missed it. That does not bother me. I wonder why.

 

[husker]

If Atomic was forced to removed the pictures due to a NDA, how is it that Tom's can continue to show them? Surely Tom's has received a Fermi for benchmarking and also signed a NDA.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]nottheking[/nom]Naw, there's been about 50 or so articles on Tom's on tesselation. Pretty much every new generation of DirectX, and somebody crows how that it introduces it. It's like a running gag by now. I assure you, when DirectX 12 and 13 come... We'll be hearing how tesselation will be the "killer ap" for them, too.[/citation]
The only reason there's so much hype over tessellation in DirectX 11 is because it's actually the first generation of DX where tessellation is a supported and required feature. ATI's DX 10 cards may have supported a tessellation engine, but it was not a feature of the DX 10 or 10.1 spec. It was a proprietary feature that ATI included hardware support for in its GPU's, thus the reason HD4000 and 3000 series owners can't take advantage of the open standard found in DX 11. So all the hype built up prior to the DX 11 generation over tessellation was ATI's doing, and not due to the requirements found in DX.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of any game that took advantage of ATI's proprietary tessellation engine found in its DX 10 GPU's. Nvidia has found some support for its PhysX engine in recent games, but it still has long way to go if it doesn't want to end up like ATI's tessellation support.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]micr0be[/nom]i dont get it ... why don't i remember this much hype for ATI 5XXX series....[/citation]
Easy answer: AMD actually delivered their cards quickly and we had real benchmarks in no time. Nvidia has been taking forever since THEY first annouced what their card was capable of doing and are SUPER late to the game. We've only had little bits of info from Nvidia here and there which leads to a lot of mystery around the product. The respective lack of hype and hype are a result of those factors.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]I wonder if it's possible to assemble a room heater using 4 cards SLI, with external PCI Express cable to PC. It can be made more powerful by adding more cards 🙂[/citation]
A room heater would be more effecient if all you are trying to do (at that instant in time) was heat the room. If you were gaming anyway, it's a nice "feature" that will keep your room warm.

 

[Ciuy]

WOOOOW, it looks like any other GPU u find out the on the marked, OMG so special..................

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]darkguset[/nom]
why don't i remember this much hype for ATI 5XXX series.

Because the card was actually launched...[/citation]
Maybe because ATI marketing had better things to advertise? Like "performance" instead of "look, how nude card looks like"? 😀 😀 😀

PS
If nVidia's market share doesn't drop significally, it would demonstrate how stupid average consumer actually is.

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]shadow703793[/nom]I gave up on this card being silent once I saw the Delta fan. At any rate, this is one power sucking beast.[/citation]

Yeah.... I may have to suck it up and wait if they don't find a quieter way to cool it.

 

[belardo]

mmmm... sexy photos.

Interesting design for its cooling... it is rather exotic. Costly.

 

[Nutjob]

Who needs benchmarks when we can look at pictures of the card in pieces...

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]Maybe because ATI marketing had better things to advertise? Like "performance" instead of "look, how nude card looks like"? PSIf nVidia's market share doesn't drop significally, it would demonstrate how stupid average consumer actually is.[/citation]
Like the average consumers who think these leaked photos are the result of Nvidia's marketing team, and not the result of individual websites breaching their NDA?

 

[eddieroolz]

Can't believe how stupid some humans are.

The benchmarks are under a NDA. Non disclosure agreement. It means you can't reveal it before the launch date, folks. You're making yourself look stupider by asking for something that cannot be legally released at this point.

 

[xsamitt]

With the Heat issues this card is sure to have there is no way i'd be buying this.

 

[rhino13]

Seriously this is the most well respected NDA ever!

You could find AMD 5xxx series benchmarks like a week before the NDA was dropped.

Is it a good sign or a bad sign that while people are willing to break nVidia's NDA with pictures, no one will do it with benchmarks?

Could it be that Fermi doesn't run without a driver update that nVidia will provide on the 26th?

 

[Tomtompiper]

Anybody smell toast?