SPIED: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Fermi Board Shot

[kelemvor4]

We'll probably have to wait until March 26th to see if the three outputs on the GTX 480/470 can be populated at the same time.

This is just another example of the diverging features coming to market from these two companies.

According to eVGA employees at their forums, the eVGA gtx 280 can only do 3 monitors in SLI mode. A single card can run two monitors, for the third you need a second card. You can run 4 monitors if the second card isn't participating in SLI, and 3 if it is.

They didn't comment on how this will apply to 3 or 4 way SLI. I'd hope you could add a fourth and fifth monitor in those cases, but I'll only be going 2 card SLI, and I only really want 3 monitors at the moment anyway.

I'm assuming that limitation isn't really specific to eVGA's cards, but I suppose I could be wrong.

 

[redplanet_returns]

SPIED: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Fermi Board Shot

MISLEADING TITLE!! i thought there would be alot of undercover agent actions in this article! =/

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]rhino13[/nom]4cmX4cm is huge.http://www.heise.de/imgs/18/4/8/9/ [...] ca01e.jpeg[/citation]
Yes rhino, that's the casing over the GPU and not the actual silicon itself. It's similar to the method AMD and Intel use for housing their CPU's, and it's not the measurement used for determining die area. Nvidia has been fairly consistent, over the past few generations, with the ratio between the die size and the casing size, which is why I estimated the die area to be closer in size to g80 then gt200.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Lamiel]

[citation][nom]Nintendork[/nom]The more or less reality is that GTX470 is less powerful than a HD5870, the first will cost more, consume more.GTX480 will be just 5-10% faster than HD5870, it will cost way more, near HD5970 price if not even more. Eats a lot of watts(275w), near HD5970 consumption (290w).HD5970 is like 60-70% faster than HD5870.HD58** released six months ago.That's your broken and unfixable fermi. And lets not forget that real deal is the HD5850 with it great OC'ng skills and two paired in CF.Hope Ati lowers prices, that's the only thing that matters, Fermi will be a fiasco, mark my words.[/citation]

And just where did you find the benchmarks to support these statements? Interesting that you know so much about how the cards will perform when they haven't even been released to reviewers yet.

 

[bcube]

looks like old one (with dirt)

 

[dante10]

looking forward to have one of those fermi