Pics of Uncrippled Fermi Card Leaked to the Web
Pics of Uncrippled Fermi Card Leaked to the Web
Posted 06/23/2010 at 4:35pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Take this one with a grain of salt (and a pound of optimism), but it appears we're closing in on the release of another GeForce GTX 480 videocard, only this time it won't be gimped. Pictures showing what's believed to be the reference design for Nvidia's upcoming GF100 graphics PCB have started popping up on the Web, each one watermarked by board partner Little Tiger.
In the picture, the PCB looks nearly identical to Nvidia's existing GTX 480 PCB, only with a stronger VRM with high-C surface-mount capacitors. Also visible are two 8-pin PCI-Express connectors.
While this is all pretty much speculation at this point, it's at least likely that Nvidia would end up calling the new card a GTX 485. Chinese website EXPreview, which is usually on top of such things, suggests that the GTX 485 will sport 512 CUDA cores, 64 ROPs, and a slightly higher-clocked GPU (724MHz).
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Thiazolium
June 24, 2010 at 1:32pm
Others on the web have suggested that this PCB will mainly be used to boost the clocks of the current 480 and not produced solely for a potentially full working chip. From what I've read 512 cores is just too hard and expensive to produce in its current iteration. If yields are in the single digits, this card would essentially be unsaleable. Overall, it makes sense to me. Improve what you have as you can't create what you don't have.
xXSINS OF WARXx
June 24, 2010 at 7:40am
I'm not a specific fan of neither ATI nor Nvidia, just whichever offers the best perfomance. That being said, "sorry" ATI, but you just got man handled lol, this thing is a beast. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
M-ManLA
June 24, 2010 at 1:10am
Does that Mean Fermi Quadro will finally come out?
Electronically charged
albe23
June 23, 2010 at 8:27pm
Agreed.
"Force has no place where there is need of skill." - Herodotus (484 BC -
430 BC)
whr4usa
June 23, 2010 at 8:47pm
dittos
GTX485 AND\OR GTX490 with DisplayPorts & LifeTime warranties . . . they'll get my funds when I build my2011dreamWorkStation (currently in progress as a NewEgg wishlist)
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