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[VanjaTheMan]

Pa ne rade ove sad iz fermi serije

[Loverclocker]

ASUS Working on MARS II Dual GTX 480 Graphics Accelerator

After treating the enthusiast community to the Republic of Gamers (ROG) ARES Dual HD 5870 graphics accelerator, ASUS isn't wasting any time is designing its successor, referred to (for now) as "MARS II". This graphics accelerator uses two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (GF100) GPUs on one board, that's right, the first dual-GPU accelerator based on GF100, which is dreaded for its thermal and electrical characteristics so much, that NVIDIA is content with having the second-fastest graphics card in the market (GTX 480), with no immediate plans of working on a dual-GPU accelerator.



ASUS' ambitious attempt is in the design stage deep inside its R&D, where the design is in an evaluation state. The R&D gave us some exclusive pictures of the MARS II PCB to treat you with. To begin with, the card's basic design is consistent with almost every other dual-GPU NVIDIA card in recent past. There are two independent GPU systems, each with its own VRM and memory, which are interconnected by an internal SLI, and connected to the system bus by an nForce 200 bridge chip. On this card, two GF100 GPUs with the same configuration as GeForce GTX 480 (GF100-375-A3) are used, each having 480 CUDA cores, and connecting to 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 384-bit wide memory interface.



ASUS' innovations kick in right from the PCB, since it takes a lot of effort to keep such a design electrically stable, as well form an overclockers' product. MARS II uses a PCB with 3 oz copper layers to increase electrical stability, and used a strong VRM. Each GPU system is fed by an 8+2 phase VRM of its own, which use a new Super Alloy choke that reduces core energy loss. The card takes its power input from three 8-pin power inputs, which are fused.



The card is quad SLI capable, and can pair with another of its kind (and probably single GTX 480s). To cool this monstrosity, ASUS is coming up with a beefier than ever cooling solution. With the product being still at an evaluation stage, how long it will take to reach production, or whether it will in the first place, remains to be seen.

Cug...? 550-600W

[VanjaTheMan]

Palit GTX 460 1Gb Sonic PLatinum review:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...onic_platinum/

[Loverclocker]

EVGA GTX 460 SLI vs GTX 480

The GTX 460 has gotten great reviews since it has been released a couple of days ago, as the card perfoms great, runs quiet and packs impressive overclocking potential.
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The results we’re about to show you paint a nice picture on the performance of the upcoming dual-GPU (GF104) card. It will be great if the new dual-GPU card comes with two GF104 chips with 384 stream processors each, higher clocks and 256-bit memory interface because such a scenario would probably make the HD 5970 shake in its boots.



What we can see today is that GTX 480 pricing has dropped by more than €30 in the last few days, so the GTX 480 is now available at about €400. So, we’re about to see the reason of such high price-drops.
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Conclusion
... As far as performance goes – this is not a good day for the GTX 480 as it loses to GTX 460 SLI at reference clocks, with Superclocked clocks extending the advantage for additional 10%. Performance scaling compared to a single card is really nice and our today’s SLI runs up to 98% better than a single card. The only weakness the GTX 460 768MB SLI showed was 2560x1600 resolution, where the advantage over the GTX 480 was lost. This is a direct result of the smaller frame-buffer. ...

[Izvor]

[[]-DJ_Sm!nkA-[]]

Svako malo izadje neka novija i mnogo bolja grafika jbg. ^^ ova moja 295gtx je zastarila cima sam je uzeo ^^ a sad ne mogu nac jos jednu da uzmem

[Loverclocker]

Svako malo izadje neka novija i mnogo bolja grafika jbg. ^^ ova moja 295gtx je zastarila cima sam je uzeo ^^ a sad ne mogu nac jos jednu da uzmem

a zašto ti treba još jedna? Za gejming?

ne bih rekao

[Loverclocker]

Nvidia ION market is almost gone

Troubles with other markets in sight
Let’s take a look at Nvidia and what the company did over the past year. For Nvidia the future is Tegra and it was also betting a lot on the ION market, and let’s not forget that the company still makes most of its money from graphics for games.

Tegra is still not extremely popular and the most important design win is still Zune HD and recently launched and killed off Microsoft Kin. Nvidia keeps telling everyone to wait for the second half of 2010 and let’s hope for their sake that there will be some major design wins. We see a lot of potential in tablet business for this product, but not much demand has materialized yet.

ION is the one to worry about as the new Atom offers a much cheaper Broadcom decoder chip that can get you nice HD 1080 playback on a netbook or nettop. Nvidia has a point when it says that its ION graphics core can increase the encoding speed and benefit CUDA applications, but most netbook users don’t really care that much about the extras, they only want fluent 1080p playback. Let's not forget that the original IION 2 chipset with northbridge got canceled last year due Nvidia's legal fight with Intel. The current ION that you can find in Atom N4x0 powered netbook is simply a graphics core that does the graphics work for the machine.

The Geforce business is slowly recovering as the company has launched the first chip that has makes sense and can sell good, the GF104. This sub $199 product is the first product that can sell in nice volumes and help Nvidia to get its market back. ATI has sold 16 million DirectX 11 cards so far and Nvidia has a lot of catching up to do.

There are still two more cards missing, the mainstream GF106 and the entry level GF108 that should sell for some $59.99 and they should ship in millions. Both cards are DirectX 11 and they should do well for Nvidia but they only come in late summer.

Nvidia is doing a great job in mobile computing as its Optimus has won the hearts of almost every laptop manufacturer. Nvidia stole some market share from ATI, even it only has one big mobile GTX 480 that DX11 based, and it's aimed at a niche market. Ironically Nvidia won most of Calpella business with obsolete DX10 rebrands, but this is mostly thanks to power saving Optimus. The sad part for ATI is that they were the first to introduce switchable graphics, but Nvidia’s Optimus simply does it much better.

In early 2011 both AMD and Intel should have CPUs with integrated graphics, let's call them Fusion and the more of these chips gets sold, the less market will remain for entry level discrete graphics. We see trouble for discrete entry level, especially if graphics in Ontario and Llano turn out to be as good as we have reported. The really worrying part is that Nvidia is getting most of its design wins in the low-end, while ATI's mobile 5000 series dominate the premium market and obviously they have higher ASPs and sell at higher margins.Again at the same time Nvidia makes insane money with Quadro, and Fermi quadro is about to launch and take even more market share.

In DirectX 11 market ATI has a predominant market share but Nvidia still ship much more GPUs than ATI, hence makes more money.

Even with 10 months advantage on market beeing the only DirectX 11 in town, they didnt manage to steal much market from Nvidia and that in Q2 2010 Nvidia can end up with as much as 65 percent of the discrete market. Maybe we can blame TSMC for lack of 40nm chips.

With all this in mind, you can only imagine that Nvidia might need an x86 core for the future.

[Loverclocker]

GF104/GTX460 has a huge die

WHEN WE SAID that Nvidia's Fermi architecture was wrong, most people didn't understand what we meant, they focused on the chips. With the release of the GTX460, one look at the die size puts the problem clearly into focus, and it is quite ugly for Nvidia.

If you recall, we were the first ones to say that the GF100 was huge, 529mm^2, months before anyone else had hard data. This was backed up 8 months later by some pictures on EXPreview. We can now tell you about GF104 die, it is 24.9mm x 14.7mm, and the die size is 367mm^2. (Note: The dimensions are rounded to one significant digit after the decimal point, they are a hair larger so multiplying those rounded numbers gets you 366mm^2. This is not an error, the 367 number is correct, some mad scientists directly measured the die.) For some odd reason, Nvidia didn't give out any die size numbers when talking to the press, almost like they didn't want people to know something before the reviews went up.

ali pazi rečenicu hahaha

In the end, the GF104/GTX460 is a good card for consumers, it is priced right, and slots into a gaping hole in the AMD lineup. That hole exists because it is better for AMD's bottom line for it to be there. Nvidia poked a sleeping lion with the GTX460, and if it decides to roll over and swat the green team they have no defense.

[Loverclocker]

KFA2 GeForce GTX 460 1024MB EX OC and LTD OC review

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Noise aside, we do have to admit that everything else was done right. The slowest EX OC model (if you can call it that) is already pre-overclocked for you at 700 MHz on the core and 3700 MHz (effective) on its 256-bit gDDR5 memory. If you apply a little extra GPU voltage (you can use the Extreme Tuner HD application) the card almost reached 900 MHz, we however could not get it stable past 900 Mhz. But at such clock frequencies you have a tremendous amount of power and performance for a very fair price.

That other SKU then, dang man... the Super Overclocked LTD OC model runs at a 810 MHz core at default, that is frickin fast for a pre-overclock. Then the memory is overclocked at default for you as well, running a l33t 4000 MHz effective over the 1024MB gDDR5 memory partition. This, without doubt, will be the fastest clocked SKU available in retail/e-tail. It's like an orange colored lion that roars and screams performance.
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[Izvor]

...malo skupo, ipak, +20% GPU clock sa LTD verzijom...

[[]-DJ_Sm!nkA-[]]

a zašto ti treba još jedna? Za gejming?

ne bih rekao

Cisto bezveze da ne bude usamljena

[Loverclocker]

hahaha kralj xD

[Loverclocker]

World Exclusive: NVIDIA 512SP GTX480 Review

As we know, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 is not based on a completely functional GF100 graphics processor. Instead, a SM of it has been disabled, and the number of CUDA cores also shrinks to 480. NVIDIA may pursue for better yield rate, power consumption and heat control. But this can never satisfy the hard-core players.

Everyone is looking forward to the full version GTX 480 which uses all the 512 CUDA cores. The PCB design and benchmarks have been unearthed, making itself a focus of speculation.

Expreview has just received a sample of 512SP GTX 480, so let’s find out how it performs against the GTX 480 model that’s already available on the market.

+200W +5fps

[Loverclocker]

Nvidia GF108 pixellized and sized


127mm² die size

After the picture of alleged GF106 GPU that we've seen last week, it was time for the GF108 to share its part of glory.

The chip on the picture is an engineering sample marked as GF108-200-A1 and measures at around 127mm². The pixellized PCB also shows four Hynix branded memory chips. The GF108 should appear in retail sometimes during September, at least according to latest Nvidia plans.

[Loverclocker]

Nvidia posts $141 million loss

Revenue up, loss widens

Nvidia posted a $141 million loss in its second fiscal quarter, which ended August 1. Losses have widened since the same period last year, when the outfit was $105 million in the red.

Nvidia was forced to cough up $193 million for faulty mobile chips shipped in 2008. Had it not, it would have been profitable, but just barely. The company was also forced to take a significant inventory writedown due to poor demand.

On the upside, revenues jumped 4.5 percent to $811 million, although revenues still failed to meet analysts’ expectations. Nvidia is somewhat more optimistic about the upcoming third quarter and it expects revenues of between $836 and $852 million.

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However, Nvidia doesn’t appear to have a bright future in integrated graphics and chipsets either, as it basically has no chipset business thanks to licensing issues. The company appears to be doing quite well in the discrete mobile market, thanks to Optimus power switching technology. However, with no mobile DirectX 11 parts in sight it’s unlikely Nvidia will keep up the positive trend in the months to come.
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Nvidia shares hit a 52-week low following the announcement, but in they eventually closed at $8.96. Investors obviously aren’t happy bunnies and although new DirectX 11 GPUs should bring about some cautious optimism, the company is still confronted by numerous issues and it will clearly take months before investors regain confidence.

[Izvor]

[Loverclocker]

Geforce GTX 460 gets a bit cheaper


768MB boards apparently dropping under €150

We took a stroll down our price search engine and we ran into some rather interesting price cuts on several Geforce GTX 460 boards. The first price cut rumours appeared on the interweb a few days ago and the cuts seem to confirm the rumours.

Over the past 48 hours numerous European retailers have cut prices on 768MB boards by as much as €20 and some cards are already available for less than €150. The move seems logical, as 768MB versions were simply priced too close to the 1GB model, which also features a wider 256-bit bus. We're still not sure whether the 1GB model will see any significant cuts.

In any case several reference clocked cards are now priced in the €140 to €160 price range. As of Thursday, they are readily available for just over €150 on the continent. However, this is a rather interesting development as Geforce GTS 450 boards are just around the corner and they are expected to sell for around €130. Clearly the new board is going to face a fair bit of in-house competition, Nvidia style.

It’s also interesting to see how Geforce GTX 460 768MB pricing measures up to AMD cards, as it is one of few competitive Nvidia products on the market. Well, actually, it’s the only competitive Nvidia card at the moment. The Radeon HD 5830 is currently selling for €170+, while the Radeon HD 5850 costs more than €220. Obviously, Nvidia’s price cut might force AMD to respond in kind and slash HD 5830/5850 pricing, but it appears that AMD isn’t overly concerned with Nvidia at the moment. AMD has already dropped HD 5830 pricing by €20 in light of the GTX 460 launch, but it hasn’t cut HD 5850 pricing since launch.

Nvidia on the other was forced to drop 400 series pricing several times over the past few months, even on the relatively fresh and competitive Geforce GTX 460. Although this is rather bad news for Nvidia, it’s great news for the average consumers, as the Geforce GTX 460 is now a much better deal than the Radeon HD 5850 and it even comes close to some non-reference Radeon HD 5770 boards. We just need to wait for AMD’s response and it is likely to come over the next few weeks, as the company gears up to introduce the Radeon HD 6000 Series and cut Radeon HD 5000 Series inventory.

[Loverclocker]

EVGA rolls out GTX 460 FTW cards

850MHz core

EVGA has refreshed its Geforce GTX 460 lineup with a couple of FTW Edition cards with massively bumped up clocks.

Both cards feature 1024MB of memory and a 256-bit bus, but the EVGA Geforce GTX 460 FTW with external exhaust (EE) features a non-reference cooler. Both cards feature an 850MHz core clock which means they should end up as some of the fastest 460 boards around. In fact, only PoV’s TGT Beast Edition is faster, with an 855MHz clock. The memory has also been given a proper whipping and it runs at 1000MHz.

Neither card could be called cheap, as the FTW with standard exhaust version has an MSRP of $259, while the FTW EE with non-reference cooling should cost $269. Still, it’s probably better to go for the EE version, as EVGA usually knows what it’s doing when it comes to coolers and a $10 premium doesn’t sound like much anyway.

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

[Loverclocker]

EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW - Full Review (26 Games Tested!)

With the new release of the GeForce GTS 450, Nvidia has targeted a specific segment of the market with a suggested MSRP starting at $129, which makes this a very budget-minded card. They went after, or as they say “laser targeted”, the gamers who don’t play everything on max settings with super high resolutions. Instead, their focus was on the people who play with resolutions of 1280×1024 through 1680×1050 on monitors of 17″-22″. The GTS 450 is the replacement for the GTS 250 GPU and is aimed at competing with the ATI Radeon 5700 series GPU’s. The 450 we have for our review today is the EVGA GTS 450 FTW Edition, representing their ‘top bin’. They also have SuperClocked and SuperSuperClocked models as well. The GTS450 employs the new Fermi GF106 architecture, which is an updated version from the GTX460’s GF104. As this GPU is geared toward a budget-oriented market, we will be sure to test the resolutions recommended when using this card as well as some that may be more of a stretch for it. Without further ado, here is the GTX 450 FTW…

[Loverclocker]

MSI GTX 480 Lightning

In contrast from the usual one 480GTX so Lightning has 16 phases PWM instead of 8th Of course it is a bit worse MOSFETs and kapacitorer. The cooler is in aluminum and has 2x 90mm fans. The card is clocked at 750 MHz GPU, 1500Mhz on CUDA cores and 1000MHz on the memory (4GHz GDDR5).

Since the card is targeted against the overclockers, there are also a number of switches for various purposes, there is a switch for extreme temperatures, other switches to increase the volts. There is also an OCP unlocker switch and a PWM Clock Tuner. The card also has dual BIOS. From MSI Afterburner can also adjust the volts on the GPU, memory and the PLL: one.

MSRP for the Lightning N480GTX is 550USD, but expect at least 6000SEK in Sweden.

[Loverclocker]

Nvidia GeForce GTS 450: Hello GF106, Farewell G92

After dutifully serving the mainstream gaming community for three years, Nvidia's G92 is finally being played out. Meet GF106, the little engine behind GeForce GTS 450. Is this 192-core part still potent, or did Nvidia cut too much from G92's replacement?

[jakov_ct]

[neptune]

GTX 570 odlicna na svim testovima, izgleda da svaka ide na oko 850 za core frekvenciju, na tom taktu stize GTX 580 a cijena joj je 100e nize, u trenutku izlaska oko 350e, mogla bi biti super kupovina, posebno kad se jos malo univelise cijena kad izadje Cayman.
Stici ce i kod nas GTX 580/570 fermiji, evo cim nVidia izda GTX 6XX seriju

[jakov_ct]

GTX570 je definitivno najbolja kupovina za premium segment, malo losija od GTX580, a po prvim testovima bolja od 6970

[Drug Tito]

Kolika graficka, odnosno hladjenje...

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/7...er-cooler.html

[kalu]

gtx 580 aa

[Loverclocker]

GeForce GTX 590 and GTX 550 Ti Surfaced in Beta Drivers
NVIDIA_DEV.1244.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti"
NVIDIA_DEV.1083.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590"

We spotted two very interesting entries in the latest 266.7x beta drivers which imply the launch of the GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GTX 550 Ti cards are nearing. GeForce GTX 590 is a dual GF110 GPU solution with 3GB GDDR5 memory while GTX 550 Ti is based on GF116-400, comes with 1GB GDDR5 memory. Sporting a dual slot solution, the GTX 550 Ti reference design looks very much like its GTX 560 Ti counterpart with Dual DL DVI-I and a mHDMI port.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/geforce-...#ixzz1E9ooiuq7