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Nvidia's NDA gets broken by topless GTX480 pics
SOME SNAPS of the Nvidia graphics card that no one is supposed to talk about have appeared online.
The pictures appeared first on tweakers.net and they show the GTX480 GPU in all its glory. Or what might turn out to be its glory. At the moment clock speeds, wattage and other bits of information are strictly off limits for discussion, according to the draconian NDA that the Green Goblin sent around at CeBIT, reportedly accompanied by verbal threats.
As tweakers.net says, and apologies for the translation, "The Nvidia card is marked in various ways, so pictures of the cards [sent] to various manufacturers can be traced. To prevent this, some features of the card [are] obscured."
Why would Nvidia want to ban talk about the Fermi GTX480 GPU? Could it be that it is still skirting the edges of manufacturability for maximum speed and power, and might as well come with one of those 'warning - inflammable' or 'radioactive' stickers?
It's not for us to say, but we are happy to show you the photos of the GF100, courtesy of Andrea Delux. µ
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NVidia's behavior somehow suggests that they're having something to hide ... like e.g. underwhelming performance, overwhelming power consumption, or yield rates so miserable that you will not be able to really purchase such a card for months after the official release date. Did I mention buggy drivers already?
I know nVidia goes ON and ON about how this will be like the second coming of Christ, ad nauseum. The simple fact is that their manufacturing processes at this level have proven to be inferior to ATi's most likely due to the fact that AMD is far more gifted at chip design than nVidia ever was. As a result of this, I don't believe there is any way they can unseat the Radeon HD 5970 simply because ATi has proven that they have superior cooling and power control systems than nVidia and the HD 5970 JUST manages to squeak in under the power ceiling of ATX specification. With those truths in mind, how will Fermi defeat the HD 5970 and still conform to ATX power spec? The short answer of course is that they won't. I don't think ATi has much to be worried about. Look for nVidia to try to arm-twist review websites into using games that nVidia supplies. The only problem this time is that nVidia is no longer in firm control of the graphics market and unless ATi REALLY screws something up, they never will be again.
.... consumption, look at the photo with the 8 and 6 pin power connectors!
So, a little bit of imagination..
~ 200W from the 16x PCI
~ 400W from the 8 Pin
~ 300W from the 6 Pin
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900W ~
;D