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And on top of that, doesn't the Transformer Prime use a higher resolution display than the iPad 2? To maintain relatively high frames per second at relatively high resolution all with relatively low power consumption is very nice. I don't see how one could be disappointed with GPU performance...

Dude, clean up your inglish Carsten, what's da matta wit u? :D Seriously though, good data, do you have any of this data at resolutions higher than 640x480?

If I recall correctly, ATI had a prounounced advantage in terms of power consumption at load with HD 4870 vs GTX 280. We are simply seeing more of the same with HD 5870 vs GTX 480. But somehow the power consumption at load seems to be a much bigger issue now than it ever was before in the eyes...

Not sure what you mean. NVIDIA publishes thermal and power specifications for GTX 470/480 too: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_uk.html The one line item that is no longer present from before is "Maximum Graphics Card Power". This spec is pretty meaningless to most...

That's true, good point. Now, that said, what should we be looking for with respect to power consumption? It seems to me that total system power consumption is the important metric for the end user, right?

So what is the deal with the wildly varying numbers on power consumption and temperature in these GTX 470/480 reviews? Here is what Hardware Canucks showed regarding idle/load power consumption: In that chart, the GTX 470 is within 5% of the HD 5870 with respect to idle power...

IIRC, it took NVIDIA quite some time to release lower end derivatives after their high end 8800 card was released. So while performance of G92 proved to be very good for the money, I don't think that time to market was very stellar compared to release of the high end product. Now, regarding...

This is a continuation of the discussion about GF100 being more suitable to scale down to lower end variants in an efficient and cost-effective manner compared to GT200: If that were truly the case, then how come NVIDIA has had so many problems in the past bringing lower end products to...

The GTX 470 seems pretty good, while GTX 480 is good too. Neither are truly exceptional with respect to performance. Certainly not worth the upgrade for anyone with a high end DX11 card from ATI/AMD, as they would be better off by adding a second card. That said, for anyone new to the DX11...

Any chance that we will be able to view the video stream from this GF100 "launch" event? According to the provantage.com link above, availability of that PNY GTX 480 card is estimated at 3-10 business days. So that would mean by April 9. Edit: Actually, the link says nothing about...

What I meant is that the GF100 architecture leads itself more to scaling down to lower end designs in a timely, cost-effective, and efficient manner once the high end GPU is ready compared to GT200. After all, each GPC in GF100 is reportedly nearly a full GPU in and of itself, right? Wasn't it...

So what? Where were you to cry "compromising execution" when NV30 came out later and slower than R300, when R600 came out later and slower than G80, and when Larrabee never even came out? Clearly you don't know anything about the history of GPU design cycles for NVIDIA, ATI, and others...

I don't know what "compromising execution" means, but GF100 certainly seems to be a step in the right direction for NVIDIA, offering very high performance and image quality with past, present, and future workloads, offering very strong graphics and compute feature set, and offering a better...

Sorry, I meant to say major architectural revision, not refresh.

You guys are on the right track in my opinion. If one insists on comparing a $499 GTX 480 to a $599 HD 5970 (the latter which costs 20% more, and is subject to certain limitations inherent in a multi-GPU setup), then why not compare a $599 HD 5970 to a $698 GTX 470 SLI (the latter which costs...