Nvidia GTX 480 & GTX 470

So, apparently Nvidia has decided to skip the whole 300-series designation for it's new Fermi desktop GPUs and go straight into the 400's.

It's been confirmed and apparently they're on track for a release in early-March (the 10th).

I wonder what this means for their next-gen notebook counterparts.

 

Why skip the 300 series? That makes no sense.

 

It sounds more powerful?

It's hard to explain Nvidia's actions sometimes...

 

the 300s are already taken by.. rebrands!

 

Oh yeah, you mean the 8xxx series rebranded to 9xxx series rebranded to 1xx series rebranded to 2xx series rebranded to 3xx series?

So this means the 4xx series will take them to the next round when they have to decide on a new naming convention. Probably back to 2xxx series. LOL.

 

This is ridiculous. NVIDIA sucks at the moment, the only way they are going to pull themselves out of the dust is if they make the new series flagship model twice as good as the 5970, for about the same price. But we know that's not going to happen, as NVIDIA's GPU pricing pales in comparison to ATI's comparable offerings.

Oh well, if it does turn out that the new series is good enough, maybe they can hope for the desktop builders market...

 

Yea. All I can say is THANK GOD ATI's still competitive with Nvidia. Without their competition, the prices of Nvidia GPUs would be outrageous.

I think Nvidia should have learned their lesson regarding pricing from the last generation of GPU's.

It didn't take them all that long to realize that a $199 HD4850 looks much more appealing than a $399 GTX260 and that a $299 HD4870 likewise looks like a better option than dropping a whopping $649 on a GTX280 for only small performance gains.

 

GTX 480 makes Nvidia's current mobile offerings sound ancient. GTX 285M ->

Core for core, GF100 is going to give RV870 a beating. Pricing is another story.

 

Yeah, I for one am expecting pricing to be absolutely insanely overpriced compared to ATI's cards.

 

Insane prices? Hah! NVIDIA laughs at price tags! Their mobile offerings based off the GT2xx core are not too shabby, albeit pretty pricey. The whole catch with ATi is their drivers, that's why I refuse to buy ATi until they hire some serious software engineers. Other than that their hardware is flippin' great. Actually ATi is almost to the point where their hardware is soo good, it makes up for the crappy software.

 

You know, shrinking the GT200 core to 40nm, adding some DX10.1 instructions, and redbadging it as GT300 isn't such a bad idea. It has only been going on for the past 6 months. A las, Nvidia needs to forge something in 40nm that outperforms G92, or they're screwed on the mobile front.

 

I think ATI's drivers have improved over time. Their desktop ones are alright, they could be better though. I agree with you, their mobile drivers suck, and NVIDIA in that respect owns them.

95% of the population probably don't even know what a driver is, so ATI wins because they have the best power for price at the moment, and that's what the consumers want.

 

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