The new nVIDIA GTX480 and GTX470 bring some pretty impressive performance possiblities.
Here’s what you need to know:
- This is a paper launch, release date is expected to be April 16th 2010
- GTX480 price is suggested by nVIDIA at $500 USD, retail may be higher
- $500 is about 16% higher cost than the lowest priced ATi 5870
- Both GTX480 and GTX470 cards load at about 91c, card max is 105c
- Both GTX480 and GTX470 cards idle around 55c to 60c @ 55% fan
- nVIDIA GTX480 usually out performs ATi 5870 by about 5 to 15%
- the ATi 5870 needs about 75MHz core OC to match stock GTX480
Some full reviews @ xtremesystems


