Nvidia's first DirectX 11 cards GeForce GTX 480/470

TBH mate, tri-fire would be more hassle than it's worth.

Outside of the benchmark/e-peen area, there are still very few games that will benefit from tri fire due to scaling issues. The majority still suck balls with a dual setup, let alone 3+

The 5850's will drop in price eventually, it just may take quite a bit longer than everyone is hoping for.


I've got my eyes on the new nvidia 480 too...

I know there majority of 'info' so far is sheer speculation/hype, but I hope that at least 25% of it is true.

no matter whats floating about the web we KNOW the following is 100%

1.... Nvidia = great driver support & 0 incompatibility rubbish.

2.... Nvidia are able to produce far more power (chip for chip) than ATI can, Fermi WILL be incredibly quick

but....... the heat of these chips will be their ''Achilles heel'', if these actually end up running hotter than the GT200 range there's gonna be a problem.

ATI's ''Evergreen'' range are simply amazing for heat output & power consumption, if Nvidia stumbles it'll be b/c of the price, or the heat.

not overall performance....

:)

skunksmash said:

no matter whats floating about the web we KNOW the following is 100%

1.... Nvidia = great driver support & 0 incompatibility rubbish.

Not quite true. In an old rig, I have to use a much older driver because newer versions disable video output via DVI on my 7600GS. VGA is fine.

Apart from the odd dud here and there though, they are better than the Cat team at drivers

2.... Nvidia are able to produce far more power (chip for chip) than ATI can, Fermi WILL be incredibly quick

Fingers crossed.

but....... the heat of these chips will be their ''Achilles heel'', if these actually end up running hotter than the GT200 range there's gonna be a problem.

ATI's ''Evergreen'' range are simply amazing for heat output & power consumption, if Nvidia stumbles it'll be b/c of the price, or the heat.

Price = almost certainty.
Heat = yeah One suspects these will not be quiet beasts.

skunksmash said:

no matter whats floating about the web we KNOW the following is 100%

1.... Nvidia = great driver support & 0 incompatibility rubbish.

2.... Nvidia are able to produce far more power (chip for chip) than ATI can, Fermi WILL be incredibly quick

but....... the heat of these chips will be their ''Achilles heel'', if these actually end up running hotter than the GT200 range there's gonna be a problem.

ATI's ''Evergreen'' range are simply amazing for heat output & power consumption, if Nvidia stumbles it'll be b/c of the price, or the heat.

not overall performance....

:)

eh i ain't counting on anything they say till i see some real benches.... so far they have showed none...

Well if they stick to their Q1 release date, they have until the end of March. So anytime now benchmarks should appear.

stormy13 said:

Everlong18 said:

Well if they stick to their Q1 release date, they have until the end of March. So anytime now benchmarks should appear.

or not,

Jensen has just finished his keynote and at the end of it it showed off a Fermi GF100 card and announced three monitor 3D stereo. He also said that Fermi is in full volume production as we speak and it should launch in Q1 2010.

We asked one of the many VPs around us and we learned that when Jensen says Q1 2010 he means Nvidia’s fiscal Q1 rather than real people’s Q1. Nvidia’s Q1 starts in January and ends on April 30th so the worst case scenario for Nvidia is to launch a card sometime in April.

Fudzilla - Nvidia Fermi to come in Nvidia’s Q1

and even when they finally launch....... it will push the 5990 in and i can't wait to see the benches on that beast if it pans out