NVIDIA GF100 & Friends speculation

Noise levels seem pretty good
Card setting dBA IDLE dBA FULL LOAD
GeForce GTX 470 39 42
GeForce GTX 480 39 43

Tradeoff is the high temperatures. Reminiscent of the 48xx launch.
 
It appears they went chicken shit and decided to release a 480SP part instead of going for a B1 stepping and FIXING the issue and making 512SP feasable for the consumers. Bastards!
 
PCGH, Geman. For what it's worth..

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...on-Nvidias-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/


Fermi leads ahead quite brutally in:

GTAIV
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...as-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=11

Metro 2033
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...as-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=13

WoW
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...as-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=15

Arma2 with SSAA
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...ias-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=6

BFBC2
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...ias-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=7


Uningine v2.0
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,7...as-GF100-Generation/Grafikkarte/Test/?page=16

Rest seems fairly in the same ballpark but with mostly Fermi having upper edge. Anwyay quite impressed and factoring in early drivers versus ATI HD5xxx having mature drivers. Also would like to see image IQ as I hear NV tends to have upper edge(?), AA,AF?
 
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Jawed said:
ATI doesn't like triangles smaller than 8 pixels

Jawed
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I think the figure is actually 16-pixels in practice(less than that and it's suboptimal for Cypress IME). Dan Amerson's talk from GDC hints at some details for Fermi-the meat is around 13:50.
 
cal_guy said:
Hardocp has their's too

http://hardocp.com/article/2010/03/26/nvidia_fermi_gtx_470_480_sli_review
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Conclusions


We see no reason to purchase a GeForce GTX 470. It provides no gameplay advantages compared to the competition, and will actually end up costing you more power and dollars for the exact same performance you can get with the Radeon HD 5850. Factor in the power consumption, and it doesn’t seem worth it. If you have an HD 5850, stick with it, the GTX 470 is not an upgrade. If you are contemplating a great performing graphics card, for a decent price, the HD 5850 is still the best choice.


The GeForce GTX 480 is more relevant in the market but it hasn’t exactly come out of the gate wowing us with performance either. There are some games where it is faster than the Radeon HD 5870, and there are some games where it is even with the Radeon HD 5870. Factor in the cost and power, and include the ability to run Eyefinity on a single GPU, the Radeon HD 5870, to us, seems like the better value for the gamer right now.


GeForce GTX 480 SLI clearly provides a better gameplay experience than the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970. In the dual-GPU competition, we felt GeForce GTX 480 SLI provided the best experience, but it will certainly cost you. It will cost you a lot of money, and it will cost you by requiring a high powered hardcore enthusiast system to support it, again costing you more money. If you are a gamer, and you want the best performance you can get right now, GeForce GTX 480 SLI is where it is at. Just beware of all the consequences of running such a configuration. We are frothing at the bit to get into some NV Surround gaming with a GTX 480 SLI setup!


Overall, GF100 hasn’t exactly delivered. I think we were all hoping it would provide a substantial gameplay improvement over the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. Competition is good, and we would like to see it. Unfortunately, our experiences weren’t as positive as we had wanted. When you break it all down to cost, power and performance, the GTX 480 and GTX 470 don’t measure up. The only saving grace is the awesomeness of GTX 480 SLI, but it comes at some high costs
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At it appears Charlie was right about the Dirt 2 demo DX9 issue on the 4x0 cards. In actual gameplay the 5870 is faster than the 480.
 
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