Nvidia's GF100 Turns Into GeForce GTX 480 and 470 132
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Expensive, power hungry? (Score:5, Funny)
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Ryan Fenton
Modern Engineering (Score:1, Funny)
hello Nvidia GrillForce (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Crap Hardware vs. Crap Drivers? Is that it atm? (Score:3, Funny)
So I can choose between nice 20W idle with ATI, but shit windows and goddamn awful linux drivers with only outdated X.org / kernel support for the cards.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 (Score:3, Funny)
And they charge $0.99 for shipping