How much would you pay for NVIDIA’s stonking Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 video card? Early estimates pegged the high-performing cards at around €600 or $600 for the single-GPU 480 model, but new figures leaked to Fudzilla suggest a somewhat more reasonable figure: they’ve heard €450 including tax when the cards come to Europe.
It’s obviously a week for leaky video cards, as after the first sighting of Sapphire’s stonking Radeon HD 5970 yesterday comes in-the-wild images of NVIDIA’s rival card, the GTX 480. Based on the company’s Fermi architecture, the GTX 480 is tipped to begin arriving on cards from select manufacturers this month.
Gigabyte’s external-GPU BookTop M1305 and M1405 notebooks aren’t the only machines relying on a separate graphics boost at CeBIT 2010 this week. Shuttle have brought along their interpretation, in the shape of the I-Power GXT Mini, a compact box fitted – in this case – with an ATI Radeon HD 4650 that hooks up to Shuttle netbooks via a special GXP port that looks a little like a larger HDMI port.
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My first desktop PC had a single fan; now we’re looking at video cards which tote three fans apiece. Such is the price of progress, and such is the awesome Sapphire Radeon HD 5970, based on ATI’s Radeon HD 5970 GPU and quietly brought out to play at CeBIT 2010 this week. According to Sapphire the triple-thick card is the fastest in the world.
AMD have announced their latest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5830, just as they were predicted to last week. The HD 5830 slots into the sub-$250 bracket and supports DirectX 11, ATI’s Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream; however it also confirms yesterday’s leaked specifications, which revealed that the card would not be as powerful – in comparison to its HD 5850 sibling – as some users had anticipated.
The last time we talked about the Radeon 5830 GPU we had heard that the GPU was delayed due to some sort of last minute issue. Reports are now coming in that claim AMD will launch the HD 5830 video card next week ahead of CeBIT. If true that would mean the last minute issue was a small one if it existed at all.
AMD have outed their latest video card, the ATI Radeon HD 5450, and while it’s packing DirectX 11 support it’s not really intended for the gamers. Instead the fanless half-height card offers DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA connections, support for Eyefinity multi-monitor output and more for just $50.
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Twitter is often a source of leaks and tips that manufacturers have to deal with then it comes to early info on their products getting out. At times, the companies themselves use Twitter to tease us about upcoming products with little tidbits like NVIDIA has tossed out in a tweet today.
The video card market has been hurt by the poor economy for sure. To address the slipping sales of high-end video cards NVIDIA and ATI have been sticking pretty much to mid-range and low end video cards over the last few months with a few exceptions. NVIDIA is now apparently set to launch a couple new high-end parts in a new family called GTX 300.
Back on the second of the month I posted up some pics and a few meager specifications that leaked about the new dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 video card. Today pricing information on the new video card has hit the web.
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