At the end of this month, NVIDIA company promised to officially present its first 3d- card with directX 11 support.
The first copies begin to reach the nearest company partners, and soon can appear the results of first tests. Associates shared new details.
Basis of both card is the same GPU: NVIDIA GF100. In its configuration enter 512 cores CUDA, 16 geometric blocks, 64 blocks TMU and 48 blocks ROP. Processor is connected with GDDR5 memory with the aid of 384- bit bus. The model GTX 470 is reduced in comparison with GTX 480. In it will be most likely, include 448 or 480 core CUDA and the memory bus (can be, 320 bits) is reduced.
According to associate, GeForce GTX 470 on the productivity occupies the place between ATI radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870. It is interesting that the required power in this case, is 300 W. For comparison: ATI radeon HD 5850 consumes, depending on load, from 27 to 170 W, HD 5870 from 27 to 188 W.
In turn, the 3d- card GeForce GTX 480 on the productivity will be equivalent to the best model of the previous generation GeForce GTX 295. The discussion deals with those applications, which are accessible now.
Concerning price, GeForce GTX 470 will cost $500, GeForce GTX 480 $600.