If you wondered why NVIDIA chose today to announce its canning the xf86-video-nv driver for all future GPUs and diverting users to use the VESA X.Org driver (even though most of them will start out using the Nouveau driver) until downloading their proprietary driver, it’s because they have finally launched Fermi. NVIDIA’s next-generation “Fermi” architecture [...]

Six months have passed since the first DirectX 11 accelerator seeing the light of day. ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 was presented on 23rd September 2009. After its appearance and the graduate fading of the media appraisal of the new standards and models, all eyes turned to NVIDIA, impatiently waiting for a competitor. Unfortunately, as time [...]

PARSIPPANY, NJ–(Marketwire – March 26, 2010) – PNY Technologies®, Inc. (“PNY”), a global leader in flash memory, USB flash drives, solid state drives, computer memory upgrade modules, as well as consumer and professional graphics cards, introduced today two new NVIDIA® graphics cards while on-site at PAX East: the XLR8™ GeForce® GTX 480 1536MB and XLR8 [...]

NVIDIA’s last truly new discrete GPU architecture was the GeForce 8800 GTX, released to critical acclaim well over three years ago. Codenamed G80, it has spawned countless silicon progeny, culminating in the high-end single-GPU GeForce GTX 285 and dual-GPU GTX 295. graphics cards Whilst NVIDIA has sought to invigorate its high-end GPUs through a course [...]

NVIDIA wanted to impress us with the GeForce GTX 480 GPU that we took an in-depth look at today. Not content with wanting the world’s fastest single-GPU graphics card, NVIDIA reckons that the new GF100 GPUs are particularly good in multi-GPU SLI mode. To that end, we received a second sample and were told to [...]

Finally! Today NVIDIA releases their highly anticipated GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 cards. While the initial announcement of the Fermi architecture was back in 2009, the actual cards are being released just now. NVIDIA has radically redesigned their GPU in order to bring maximum performance for DirectX 11 – especially tesselation. You can [...]

Thanks to the modular, scalable design of PCI-Express, consisting of independent data-paths called ‘lanes’, motherboard designers can control a limited PCI-Express lane budget, and offer multiple PCI-Express x16 slots. In mid-range motherboards, and particularly in most motherboards based on Intel’s newest P55 chipset, 16 PCI-Express lanes are used to drive two PCI-Express slots with bandwidths [...]

PC video game enthusiasts have depended on two companies to deliver graphics power for their computer system: NVIDIA and ATI. While it’s convenient for NVIDIA to enjoy fan favoritism for the past decade, ATI has recently enjoyed strong sales and a decisive head-start on the growing DirectX-11 consumer market over the past six months (as [...]

The GeForce GTX 470 and 480 tested Finally — today is the day that we debunk, squash and confirm some myths. Alongside the now ancient GeForce FX series, the most discussed product series prior to release from NVIDIA ever, is being released. Yes my friends, today is the day that the first DX11 class GeForce [...]

Fermi is finally here! We put the new GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480 video cards through the paces in four of the latest and most demanding games recently released. We find time for GeForce GTX 480 SLI as well. We compare these to the Radeon 5850, Radeon 5870, and the Radeon 5970. Introduction [...]

We’ve all been waiting for Fermi for so long that when it finally came through the door, it was almost like a dream. With a newly redesigned core and 3.2 Billion transistors and 512 CUDA cores (480 exposed), the GTX-480 is one cutting edge powerful GPU you won’t want to miss. The addition of DirectX [...]

NVIDIA’s GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards will be quite the heat source with some 3 billion transistors working away, but NVIDIA’s reference cooling solutions designed to suit these cards are expected to keep things stable under extended load periods. However, Inno3D already sees limited overclockability from the models with the stock coolers and even [...]

Here’s MSI with its GeForce GTX 480 offering, the MSI N480GTX. While it’s clear that all GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards, at least initially, will adhere to NVIDIA’s reference designs, each manufacturer is throwing in a little something unique. MSI’s offering speaks of “Military-class” components, though it’s likely that NVIDIA’s own choice of components [...]

Leadteak is one of the many NVIDIA partners ready with its offering of GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards, pictured ahead of its launch. As with every other GeForce 400 series SKU in the making, these cards stick to NVIDIA’s reference design. The Leadtek GeForce GTX 480 is DirectX 11 compliant, has [...]

After many months of waiting, attributed further by the fact that the launch date has been pushed back multiple times, FERMI makes its debut today, finally. In recent weeks we’ve learnt a lot about what to expect from this very significant release, bar what we want to know the most, performance numbers. Today the cat’s [...]

For months that we have heard the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 video card is a power hog and today we find out for certain thanks to some cards being shown off at CeBIT. On the side of some retail boxed graphics cards it states that a minimum 600W or greater power supply (with a minimum [...]

TweakTown – Whilst we all continue to count down the days until NVIDIA lets Fermi (GF100) off its chains, little has been shared to give a clearer perspective on just how these latest and greatest monsters from NVIDIA dubbed the GTX 480 and GTX 470 will perform. But, one thing that we’re sometimes seeing pop [...]