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 [...]

With the launch of GeForce GTX 400 series enthusiast-grade graphics cards based on the GF100 GPU being a stone’s throw away, it is learned that work could be underway at NVIDIA to develop a new performance GPU as a successor to G92 and its various derivatives, according to 3DCenter.org, a German tech portal. Codenamed GF104, [...]

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 [...]

Since the official launch of Fermi is on Friday US / late Friday night / Saturday morning in Europe, we are getting the last hidden details on the of slower of two Fermi cards. GeForce GTX 470 has 448 cores, packs 1280MHz GDDR5 memory with a 320-bit memory interface clocked at 1674MHz has a TDP [...]

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 [...]