News - 512-core GeForce GTX 480 to offer 5% performance boost?

[HEXUS]

Leaked benchmarks suggest so.

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[Platinum]

Thats insane, 2x 8pin power connectors for a single chip card, why any gamer would get this over a 5970 is beyond me, unless they jizz there pants over Physx or have a folding farm and unlimited money.

[mikemikemi]

Looks like they're getting a handle on the manufacturing process, which is letting them turn out chips closer to what they intended a few months ago.

[aberkae]

5% gain is obvious 480/512 equals 6.25% gain in cores. comparing gtx 480 (480 cores) Vs. gtx 285 (240 cores) thats 240/480 100% gain in cores. so when comparing cores/ performance, gtx 480 brought only 50% gain compared to previous gen. gtx 285.

So 6.25% more in course will probable get you 3.25% gain in performance. So 5% sounds great to me.

[aberkae]

Thats insane, 2x 8pin power connectors for a single chip card, why any gamer would get this over a 5970 is beyond me, unless they jizz there pants over Physx or have a folding farm and unlimited money.

its called multi GPU scalability! cheaper 2 gtx 460s outperform 5970 and even two 5870s in crossfire.
its simple. cheaper and performs better. lol

[this_is_gav]

Looks like they're getting a handle on the manufacturing process, which is letting them turn out chips closer to what they intended a few months ago.

Nuclear fission?

[Platinum]

http://en.expreview.com/2010/08/09/w...80/9070.html/6

204 Watts more!, What are Nvidia smoking???

[kalniel]

Looks like they're getting a handle on the manufacturing process, which is letting them turn out chips closer to what they intended a few months ago.

They would not have intended a card that hungry for power - manufacturing process can't be that good if they still need it.

[badass]

Looks like they're getting a handle on the manufacturing process, which is letting them turn out chips closer to what they intended a few months ago.

They've probably just been holding the 512 core capable ones back from sale until they have enough inventory. Sorting yields on the GF100 will take at least a complete respin.

[dcwt2010]

I think we should reserve judgment till the official review comes out. I sincerely doubt that the advances they made on the 460 would be wasted for the revised 480.

[kalniel]

I think we should reserve judgment till the official review comes out. I sincerely doubt that the advances they made on the 460 would be wasted for the revised 480.

You do understand the differences between the 460 and 480 right?