News - Colorful's box spills more details on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GPU

[scaryjim]

I was under the opposite impression - that the 480 was definitely going to have a 384bit bus.

I thought that was already known ... a supposed Fermi unit with 1GB RAM must be a fake ... as a consequence of the 384 bit bus ...

As with Snooty, the 384bit interface has been known for a while.

Fair enough - memory fail on my part then I guess I had it in mind that the 480 was going to be 448bit and the 460 384bit - can't remember where I thought I saw that now though!

[GaryRW]

Well my whole system consumes 300W at full load, CPU and GFX card. And that's at the wall. So say my PSU is 85% efficient, we're talking about 260W for the full system. And it's saying I need a 550W. Yeah, they're just giving shed-loads of headroom on their statement.

Don't forget everyone in this thread probably spent more than £30 on their psu, and the purchasing decision involved more than just looking at the big number next to the W. 85% might be a dim and distant dream for some PSU's out there

I really hope Nvidia are just covering themselves for those people that bought cheap ass PSU's though - otherwise things are getting a little bit silly. At least with the ATI 5xxx series the idle draw was a huge improvement, even if the load figures were higher than the 4xxx's (iirc).

[mercyground]

Well at least NV gamers wont freeze to death. Baked alive however...

Irritating they arent supporting displayport. And minihdmi? urgh. thats going to be a bitch to secure properly.

[MonkeyL]

Am I the only one who finds that power draw questionably high? It's 100 watt above the minimum for a 5870, and is on par with a crossfire setup of two of them.

You are not, the power draw is ridiculous.