Cards promise about 10% better performance than comparable ATI parts
AMD and NVIDIA are always fighting it out for market share in the video card market. The competition between the two companies in the video card and GPU market is often likened to the competition between AMD and Intel in the CPU market.
NVIDIA has been working on its next generation Fermi architecture for a while now. We got a few details on the Fermi GPU back in January. NVIDIA reported in January that it was in mass production with Fermi GF100 chips and claimed that the new cards would blow AMD away. In February, NVIDIA reported that the first cards to use the Fermi architecture would be the GTX 480 and the GTX 470. The GPU firm offered no firm specs on the cards at the time.
Now, the specs and pricing for the GTX 480 and 470 video cards has been revealed reports VR-Zone. According to the publication, the cards are set to launch on March 26 and an official picture of the GTX 480 has been leaked. The GTX 480 video card promises a core clock of 700MHz, shader clock of 1401MHz, and a memory clock of 1848MHz. The memory interface will be 384-bit and the card will have 1536MB of RAM and a 250W TDP. The card will sell for $499, which is typical for a new high-end card.
The GTX 470 will offer a core clock of 607MHz, shader clock of 1215MHz, and a memory clock of 1674MHz. The card will have a 320-bit memory interface and 1280MB of RAM. The TDP is said to be 225W and the card will sell for $349. According to early benchmarks, the GTX 470 is claimed to be 5-10% faster than the ATI HD 5850 with a similar lead for the GTX 480 compared to the Radeon HD 5870.
Plans for dual GPU Fermi cards are also in the works.
