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**Melcar** · 22 February 2010, 02:49 PM

I think the presumed launch price is a bit too optimistic. Lets wait and see.

**BlackStar** · 22 February 2010, 03:31 PM

Seems the list price isn't so optimistic...

Launch date is officially announced as the 26th of March.

Personally, I'd never buy at such prices but let's just hope the performance will reflect the cost.

**rohcQaH** · 22 February 2010, 03:59 PM

Originally posted by BlackStar View Post

Personally, I'd never buy at such prices but let's just hope the performance will reflect the cost.

Even if you limit yourself to the numbers nvidia released so far, you can narrow down the performance enough to know that $680 is way overboard. Let's wait for the final prices.

**chithanh** · 22 February 2010, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by BlackStar View Post

Seems the list price isn't so optimistic...

Users on other forums have already pointed out that for a 384 bit memory bus the cards would have a mulitple of 768 MiB of graphics memory. So these listings seem questionable.

**mirv** · 22 February 2010, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by chithanh View Post

Users on other forums have already pointed out that for a 384 bit memory bus the cards would have a mulitple of 768 MiB of graphics memory. So these listings seem questionable.

Not necessarily. Depends what they do with the memory bus.

**chithanh** · 22 February 2010, 04:12 PM

Fermi-based Tesla cards come in 3 and 6 GB memory variants: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1258360868914.html

So it would at least be surprising if GTX 480/470 don't come with 1.5 or 3 GB memory.

**Melcar** · 22 February 2010, 09:17 PM

March 26. Blah blah blah, character limit.

**Ex-Cyber** · 22 February 2010, 11:44 PM

Originally posted by Nvidia

Test drive our highly-anticipated, next-generation GPU?you may even be able to buy one before anyone else

Hmm...

"may even be able to buy one" => they will have few cards for sale

"before anyone else" => the cards won't actually hit retail on the 26th

I wonder when it will really launch...

**Melcar** · 25 February 2010, 05:11 PM

April, and even then you'll probably not be able to get a hold of one for some months after that.

Second-tier makers unlikely to start mass shipping Nvidia Fermi cards until April

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100225PD202.html

Second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470-based (Fermi) graphics cards until April despite that Nvidia plans to announce the GPU on March 26 since most of the them have not yet received complete reference board designs, according to sources from graphics card makers.

**daedaluz** · 25 February 2010, 08:22 PM

Don't know how valid this is, but you really shouldn't get your hopes too high regarding Fermi:

GeForce GTX 400 Series Performance Expectations Hit the Web

http://www.techpowerup.com/116114/GeForce_GTX_400_Series_Performance_Expectations_Hit_the_Web.html

A little earlier this month, NVIDIA tweeted that it would formally unveil the GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards, NVIDIA's DirectX 11 generation GPUs, at the PAX East gaming event in Boston (MA), United States, on the 26th of March. That's a little under a month's time from now. In its run up, so...

"Sources tell DonanimHaber that the GeForce GTX 470 performs somewhere between the ATI Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. This part is said to have a power draw of 300W."

That is ridiculous.

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