Saturday, March 20, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Elite Bastards) 20/03/2010


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Leaked slides expose NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 specification and pricing

The launch of NVIDIA's DirectX 11 capable GeForce GTX 400 series is drawing every closer, so it was perhaps inevitable that we'd see some leaked presentation slides floating around sooner or later. That time has now come, courtesy of Turkish web site Donanimhaber, supposedly laying bare the specifications of the GeForce GTX 480 for all to see.

The slides don't provide as much details as we'd like, but they do give us the first image of NVIDIA's reference design - complete with protruding heatpipes.

The brief spec sheet confirms that 1,536MB of GDDR5 memory will be on board, connected via a 384-bit interface, and that the card will consume anything up to 300W of power.

Measuring around 267mm in length, the card sports both six-pin and eight-pin power connectors, and will feature dual-link DVI and mini-HDMI outputs.

HEXUS has posted up the slides in question. Meanwhile, VR-Zone also claims to have a scoop on specifications for both the GeForce GTX 470 and 480, along with recommended pricing details:

GeForce GTX 480 : 480 SP, 700/1401/1848MHz core/shader/mem, 384-bit, 1536MB, 295W TDP, US$499

GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 607/1215/1674MHz core/shader/mem, 320-bit, 1280MB, 225W TDP, US$349

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AMD Phenom II X6 CPU clock speeds revealed

Intel might have been first to market with a six-core CPU, but AMD aren't going to be too far behind on this occasion as they look set to launch their own, lower priced, range of six-core parts in the very near future. Thanks to a motherboard BIOS update recently released by Gigabyte, we now have a slightly better idea as to what the clock speeds of these CPUs will be.

Mainboard manufacturer Gigabyte Technology has reveled clock-speeds of Advanced Micro Devices’ forthcoming Phenom II X6 “Thuban” central processing units (CPUs). As expected, AMD’s six-core chips will feature substantially lower clock-speeds than their quad-core brethren.

According to the description of Gigabyte’s BIOS update for GA-790XT-USB3 motherboard, AMD Phenom II X6 1035T and 1055T will operate at 2.60GHz and 2.80GHz, respectively. Based on those clock-speeds, it is possible to estimate clock-speeds of other chips in the “Thuban” family: 3.0GHz for 1075T and 3.20GHz for the 10xxT chip due to be out in Q3 2010.

X-Bit Labs have all the details.

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