For anyone holding out hope for the new Nvidia architecture to slam ATI's dick in a brick wall at high garm speed:
you are disappoint.
The specs on this board, which boasts minute performance increases over ATI's latest series (which was released at least 6 months earlier), are enough to make your giant computer tower hover for about 12 minutes before igniting then melting shortly after consuming every bit of electricity left in the whole world.
What's worse is at the price it's coming in at, it's not even close to being competitive, so anyone holding out for a price drop on the high-end video cards won't see it anytime soon.
Nvidia has claimed that these glaring negative points are a trade off for how CUDA, tessellation, and PhysX will raise the bar for graphic performance using DX11. Even if that were the case, you're hard pressed to find anything coming out in the next year that will take advantage of the technology. People who are impressed by these kinds of things are the same people that pre-ordered AVP and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. We all know how that turned out.
With all that taken into consideration along with the 480's astoundingly awful 20 degree max temp. difference and over 100 W power consumption difference over its competitor's (top of the line) product on just about every test released:
I, personally, won't be holding my breath.
provided is a great article, one of many disappoints i have read today:
http://techgage.com/article/nvidia_geforce_gtx_480_-_gf100_has_landed/14
also, lol at the 295 doing better avg. FPS on crysis: warhead on that test
you are disappoint.
The specs on this board, which boasts minute performance increases over ATI's latest series (which was released at least 6 months earlier), are enough to make your giant computer tower hover for about 12 minutes before igniting then melting shortly after consuming every bit of electricity left in the whole world.
What's worse is at the price it's coming in at, it's not even close to being competitive, so anyone holding out for a price drop on the high-end video cards won't see it anytime soon.
Nvidia has claimed that these glaring negative points are a trade off for how CUDA, tessellation, and PhysX will raise the bar for graphic performance using DX11. Even if that were the case, you're hard pressed to find anything coming out in the next year that will take advantage of the technology. People who are impressed by these kinds of things are the same people that pre-ordered AVP and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. We all know how that turned out.
With all that taken into consideration along with the 480's astoundingly awful 20 degree max temp. difference and over 100 W power consumption difference over its competitor's (top of the line) product on just about every test released:
I, personally, won't be holding my breath.
provided is a great article, one of many disappoints i have read today:
http://techgage.com/article/nvidia_geforce_gtx_480_-_gf100_has_landed/14
also, lol at the 295 doing better avg. FPS on crysis: warhead on that test
Thinking about jumping ship to AMD/ATI?
ReplyDeleteit's a possibility for sure
ReplyDeletei've used nvidia forever, but this is a huge failure on many levels.
i can't justify paying that much money for a card when the one across the street is proven, works almost up to par if not on, runs cooler/quieter, has been developed longer and costs less.
plus, i won't need to upgrade even more hardware just to run it, as is the case with the 400 series.
i'm not all-knowing on the issue, but that's the way it appears at the moment.
Looking at some of the charts on this article here makes me think you should go with a 5970.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid of change. :(
ReplyDeletei hadn't seen that yet, dan, and have read the "minimum framerate" argument on a few occasions. Holds some water, but again, not impressed. In my opinion, Nvidia sunk their own ship jumping on a marketing horse long before they had results and I haven't really caught anyone writing about how impressed they are with the release. Then again how long is the internet impressed with anything.
ReplyDeleteI'd be really surprised if this initial release is deemed a "success".
I'd say "there's always time", but this is supposedly what they had up their sleeve.
thankfully, the next purchase will only be one high end card so I don't have to take SLI or CF into consideration or I'd be inclined to stay with Nvidia.
HE'S HEATING UP!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/18698
AMD reports they may release a new series in the fall