Nvidia's GF100 Turns Into GeForce GTX 480 and 470

crazipper writes "After months of talking architecture and functionality, Nvidia is finally going public with the performance of its $500 GeForce GTX 480 and $350 GeForce GTX 470 graphics cards, both derived from the company's first DirectX 11-capable GPU, GF100. Tom's Hardware just posted a comprehensive look at the new cards, including their power requirements and performance attributes. Two GTX 480s in SLI seem to scale impressively well — providing you have $1,000 for graphics, a beefy power supply, and a case with lots of airflow."

$1000 for graphics

[tpstigers]

Come on - is that all? There HAS to be a way I can spend 5 times that to play a video game.

Expensive, power hungry?

[Megahard]

Sounds like the GF100 turned into the MRS100.

So...

[RyanFenton]

Most unique, perhaps, is that the surface of the card is actually part of the heatsink, above the fin array. Normally, this would be a part of the card you could grab onto when pulling it out of a system. But when I burnt my hand on it, I thought a temperature reading would be interesting. Turns out that, during normal game play (running Crysis, not something like FurMark), the exposed metal exceeds 71 degrees C (or about 160 degrees F).

...So, are any third party manufacturers planning on making an easy-bake oven attachment for this thing? At least have that thing creating some gaming snacks with some of that extra heat.

Ryan Fenton

Modern Engineering

[lightrush]

What do you know, heaters for PCIe come with moderately fast GPUs onboard these days!

hello Nvidia GrillForce

[distantbody]

It's about time a product acknowledged my desktop grilling needs.

Re:Crap Hardware vs. Crap Drivers? Is that it atm?

[Fred_A]

So I can choose between nice 20W idle with ATI, but shit windows and goddamn awful linux drivers with only outdated X.org / kernel support for the cards.

Or this power hungry overpriced heater (yay, summer is coming), which at least has decent drivers.

I think I read somewhere (I'd have to look it up) that both ATI and nVidia make other models.
Maybe you could find one that's more to your liking among those ?

OTOH, with summer comes the season of open case barbecues, so nVidia has at least something going for it !
(is the GF100 dishwasher safe ?)

Re:$1000 for graphics

[thebes]

And they charge $0.99 for shipping