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Colorful's box spills more details on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GPU

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 March 2010, 14:00

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Whilst navigating through the tech-filled halls at CeBIT 2010, keen to spot NVIDIA's next-generation graphics architecture, we were told that board partners would be wheeling in the high-end GTX 480 card in closed PCs, limiting the press' chances of getting hands-on with the GPU that's due to launch on March 26th.

As the launch draws near, NVIDIA's partners are busy readying retail boxes.



One such partner - and we confess that the name hadn't crossed our radar too many times before - is Colorful.

NVIDIA remains tight-lipped over the card's specifications, but we can confirm from the box that it will have 1,536MB of GDDR5 memory.



The rear outputs will comprise of twin dual-link DVI-I connectors and a mini-HDMI port (v1.3a). No provision for DisplayPort, then?

The power requirements are such that it needs more juice than twin 6-pin plugs can supply, and the setup is the same as a Radeon HD 5970's.

A chunky PSU is recommended, pitching in at 600W - 42A on the 12V line - for a single-GPU system. Add at least 250W for a second card.

Now all we need is a card to test NVIDIA's claims of upcoming high-end graphics hegemony.

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Posted by Shooty* - Mon 01 Mar 2010 14:43
How long til we have GPUs you need to plug directly into the mains?
Posted by jim - Mon 01 Mar 2010 14:50
At least all those stupid 1kw PSUs might actually come in useful.
Posted by scaryjim - Mon 01 Mar 2010 14:54
Indeed, 42A on the 12V line means > 500W - so I reckon the rumoured 280W TDP must be pretty close to the truth, at least for the top end part. That's kinda power hungry for a 40nm part, isn't it? ;) Does the 1536MB hint at a 384bit memory bus? I thought it was gonna be in the 400s?
Posted by CK_1985 - Mon 01 Mar 2010 15:13
scaryjim
…Does the 1536MB hint at a 384bit memory bus? I thought it was gonna be in the 400s?

I was under the opposite impression - that the 480 was definitely going to have a 384bit bus. Somenone's bound to spill it soon enough though!

The choice of outputs is quite telling I reckon - they've obviously had to use one of the two slots as a full-width exhaust vent (unlike the 5870's half-and-half design), so clearly it's gonna produce a lot of heat…
Posted by Darren - Mon 01 Mar 2010 15:13
600w minimum, so that basically renders the Seasonic X 750 I got usless for SLi, just as it does for the latest Pro and Modu ranges from Enermax aimed at the enthusiast. Am I the only one who finds that power draw questionably high? It's 100 watt above the minimum for a 5870, and is on par with a crossfire setup of two of them.

Yet the performance we've seen from leaked numbers suggests it doesn't justify that power requirement increase. Yeah I know we should wait for confirmed numbers but I can't help shaking something is wrong here.

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