14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA has definitely been doing a good job at not disclosing the product specifications of its upcoming GeForce GTX cards and, as such, there is very little known about them except for their respective amounts of memory and what speculations can hint at. The first two products in the GTX line will debut around the end of March. In order to preserve anticipations, TEAMEVGA recently posted a couple of pictures on Flickr, which, while not particularly revelatory, achieve their goal of keeping the interest high.
The two images are actually partial photos of the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 product boxes. Unfortunately, they do not disclose anything related to clock speeds and other specs, but do confirm part of the feature set. The upcoming cards will have support for PhysX, SLI and CUDA and will even enable the 3D Vision Surround technology, for the ultimate immersion in games through transforming the content into 3D.
The GPU maker recently unveiled a video that showed the performance of the GTX 480 in comparison with the ATI Radeon HD 5870. According to the Unigine benchmark tests, the card outperformed its rival in most areas. Of course, the product reviews will eventually have the last say and it will be interesting to see whether a dual-GPU card will eventually come out.
According to the company, by setting up two GTX cards in SLI mode, end-users can create display scenarios similar to those enabled by the ATI Eyefinity technology. However, NVIDIA seems to have an advantage, as its cards can display such content in 3D. Unfortunately, the price involved with buying two top-end cards, along with three identical 3D monitors will likely give most consumers pause.
NVIDIA's 1280MB GTX 470 and the 1536MB GTX 480 will be officially launched at PAX 2010, on March 26 or 27. Manufacturers' custom boards will most likely debut around the same time.
