So, whats happened to the GTX 470/480

smarteyeball said:

Unfortunately for the GTX 480 the general consensus is:

► Too hot
► Too Noisy
► Too power hungry
► Too Expensive
► Too little performance advantage
► Too little, too late

As it stands, ultimately the card is a massive disappointment. The rumors of it's problematic birth came to fruition.

Yup, that sums up the GTX 480 pretty well. The "too noisy" and "too little performance advantage" are the number one reasons why I'm not bothering with it. My GTX 295 is a dual-GPU card and yet it runs cooler than this GTX 480 nuclear device.

Zen00 said:

(...) the Radeon HD 6000 series, coming out later this year, will feature a new core revision as well.

Nice, I will be waiting for that. :)

Zen00 said:

It's pretty interesting because they used to be a part of AMD, now they're well on their way to becoming the next biggest foundry in the world, ready to challenge ARM someday.

Between currently valid info, outdated info, rumour and sheer speculation - it's not surprising that's it's easy to lose track of who's in bed with whom.

The last I 'heard' (ie read) was that there were tensions between GloFlo, yet AMD still hold about 30% marketshare in that company

I'm only surmising that they still have certain contractual obligations with TSMC for X amount of manufacturing left to do.

ciphernemo said:

smarteyeball said:

Unfortunately for the GTX 480 the general consensus is:

► Too hot
► Too Noisy
► Too power hungry
► Too Expensive
► Too little performance advantage
► Too little, too late

As it stands, ultimately the card is a massive disappointment. The rumors of it's problematic birth came to fruition.

Yup, that sums up the GTX 480 pretty well. The "too noisy" and "too little performance advantage" are the number one reasons why I'm not bothering with it. My GTX 295 is a dual-GPU card and yet it runs cooler than this GTX 480 nuclear device.

With a 295, you can easily afford to wait :)

I was content to wait it out a while longer with my 4890 crossfire setup until one of the cards karked it...

cloud8521 said:

ciphernemo said:

Zen00 said:

(...) the Radeon HD 6000 series, coming out later this year, will feature a new core revision as well.

Nice, I will be waiting for that. :)

no it wont, it should be out 2011, unless that changed

What evidence do you have of that?

Zen00 said:

cloud8521 said:

ciphernemo said:

Nice, I will be waiting for that. :)

no it wont, it should be out 2011, unless that changed

What evidence do you have of that?

Speculation. It's said the 6000 series plan to be 28nm, but 28nm isn't planned to be ready until atleast Q1 2011 at the earliest.

Ah, so that's why he says that. No, the first wave will be 32nm in 2010, with 28nm variants coming in 2011.