14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA finally released its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480, marking the debut of some of this year's most highly anticipated products. Naturally, as it is always the case after a major introduction, the company's partners have followed suite and immediately revealed their respective custom models. One company, however, doesn't seem inclined to rush things and has only offered a preview of its products, resolving to only release them at a later date.
Gainward has shown off its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics adapters that carry the company's special logo. This logo, however, is the only distinctive element end-users are going to see in this case, as the cards are otherwise completely identical to the stock versions. Of course, this situation is no different than most of NVIDIA's other partners, which, with few exceptions, also stuck to the reference specs and cooler.
The GeForce GTX 480 has 480 cores, 1536MB GDDR5 clocked at 2696MHz, a 384-bit interface, a GPU clock of 700MHz and a shader clock of 1401 MHz. The GTX 470 is, as end-users know well, slightly less capable, with only 448 CUDA cores, a 320-bit memory interface, 1280MB GDDR5 and GPU/shader/memory clocks of 607/1215/3348Mhz. Both models have support for DirectX 11 graphics, putting special emphasis on tessellation rendering, and also bring the benefits of CUDA, PhysX, 3-way SLI and 3D Vision Surround. They also support Shader Model 5.0, NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute.
“GF100 GPUs are based on scalable array of Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs), Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) and memory controllers. GTX 480 implements six 64bit GDDR5 memory controllers (384bit in total) to facilitate high bandwidth access to the framebuffer, with 480 CUDA cores, organized at 15 SMs of 32 cores each. Each core is a unified processor that executes vertex, pixel, geometry and compute kernels,” the press release explains.
The two adapters will start selling on April 16 at 479.90 Euro (GTX 480) and 349.90 Euro (GTX 470).
