For anyone interested in what's happening on the other side, this video was released by NVidia a few days ago...

Source: YouTube

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However, this demo may not be a very realistic indication of actual performance, and according to other sources, the GTX480 is only around 5% faster than the HD5870 in real gaming performance....

Quote:There is one bright spot, and it is a very bright spot indeed. No, not the thermal cap of the chip, but the tessellation performance in Heaven. On that synthetic benchmark, the numbers were more than twice as fast as the Cypress HD5870, and will likely beat a dual chip Hemlock HD5970. The sources said that this lead was most definitely not reflected in any game or test they ran, it was only in tessellation limited situations where the shaders don't need to be used for 'real work'.

The games tested DID include DX11 games, and those are still in the 5% range. Heaven uses tessellation in a way that games can not, Heaven can utilize far more shaders for tessellation than a normal game can, they have to use them for, well, the game itself. The performance of Heaven on GTX480 was not reflected in any games tested by our sources, DX9, 10, 10.1 or 11.

Full article - http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/02/20/s...80-scores/

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Now personally, I don't give a poo poo about which highest end card can get the most frames on Crysis2 with 9001xAA.

What I'm interested in is how much the extra competion will drive down the prices, later on when I decide to buy myself a new graphics card.

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From what I've read, it's about as fast as a 5870, except double tessellation performance and produces too much heat...

iama gonne go for the billion pixels!!

this is why a PS4 should come out,. this looks awesome!
and def faster then the ati directx 11,.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:From what I've read, it's about as fast as a 5870, except double tessellation performance and produces too much heat...

Yeah, I sort of get that sort of impression from reading all the youtube comments too...


But what's that tri-monitor 3D thing about at the very end?  Seems interesting.

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Assassinator Wrote:But what's that tri-monitor 3D thing about at the very end?  Seems interesting.

To me, it sounds like an extensions of nVidia's current 3D system.  Still involves shutter glasses.
Except current system uses one monitor running at 120Hz.  This probably works on 3 monitors running at 60Hz (120Hz monitors are difficult to find I'd guess).

HD6xxx series will probably be out in 2011, so wonder how long it will take nVidia to get their cards out...

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ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:HD6xxx series will probably be out in 2011, so wonder how long it will take nVidia to get their cards out...

Release date for GTX 480 and 470 is anounced to be 27 March if I remember correctly, so in 17 days.

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Assassinator Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:HD6xxx series will probably be out in 2011, so wonder how long it will take nVidia to get their cards out...

Release date for GTX 480 and 470 is anounced to be 27March if I remember correctly.

If the cards have't been released yet,. then they prob solve the heat problem,. before selling,.
Also nvidia is prob way faster then the ati cards,. c'mon,.

Vegetano1 Wrote:If the cards have't been released yet,. then they prob solve the heat problem,. before selling,.

There's a limit to how big a fan you can put on the card.  Truely solving heating problems probably involve.... changing the architecture?  (Definitely not something that can be done in anywhere close to 17 days)

Vegetano1 Wrote:Also nvidia is prob way faster then the ati cards,. c'mon,.

Wee'll only be able to know after the card releases and someone benchmarks with it.

Assassinator Wrote:What I'm interested is how much the extra competion will drive down the prices, later on when I decide to buy myself a new graphics card.

Yup. I do fancy some DX11 myself and hope to build a rig later this year.

Heres hoping an Intel + Nvidia combo will be the WINRAR!

17 days = probably already mass produced.

AMD did well with this generation.  I think I read that nVidia basically made a far too complex chip, the reason they had all these issues.  ATI has mainly been focused on gaming.  nVidia has some other focuses, eg CUDA.  Unfortunately, I don't think it'll become heavily mainstream without similar support from AMD.  (note, OpenCL/DirectCompute are somewhat different from CUDA)