IT News HeadLines (Elite Bastards) 28/03/2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and 480 launch coverage

Now that the cat is out of the bag and the first Fermi-derivative GPUs have been unveiled the coverage is pouring in - Here's our list of all of the reviews and articles that have hit the web thus far, including our very own preview.

- Elite Bastards
- Anandtech
- Benchmark Reviews
- bit-tech
- Bjorn 3D
- Firing Squad
- Guru 3D
- [H]ard|OCP
- Hardware Canucks
- Hardware Heaven
- HEXUS
- HEXUS (SLI performance)
- Hot Hardware
- Inside HW
- Ninja Lane
- PC Games Hardware
- PC Perspective
- techPowerUp
- techPowerUp (PCI Express scaling)
- Tweak Town

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Elite Bastards preview: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series

It's been a long time in coming (although then again I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that), but today finally sees NVIDIA lift the lid on their first GF100, Fermi architecture-based graphics boards in the form of the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480. Were they worth the wait? We only received our press briefing a few short hours ago, but we've endeavoured to take you through what these new GPUs have to offer.

With so much rendering horsepower at its disposal, it's more than welcome news to see NVIDIA focusing on 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing with their new high-end parts, and in the chart above we can see the company's claims that 8x MSAA suffers a far smaller performance hit with the GeForce GTX 400 series compared to the GeForce GTX 200 series illustrated for your perusal. With support for up to 32x Coverage Sample anti-aliasing to add to the mix, you certainly shouldn't be left wanting in terms of image quality improvements from this generation of hardware.

SLI scaling is also improved for this new generation of hardware, with 90% scaling expected of many titles thanks to improvements to both caching and compression within the GF100 architecture. Needless to say, 3-way SLI is still supported at the high-end, and we should also be seeing Quad SLI making an appearance further down the line according to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series preview - Fermi unleashed at last

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