NVIDIA has unveiled the first set of charts based on the architecture Fermi . Heads range flagship chipset GeForce GTX 480, which NVIDIA described as "the fastest video processor in the world. He has 480 processor cores, 16 geometric blocks, four raster block. Optimized Mode SLI, resulting in speed from the second graphics card increased by 90%. It is anticipated that tests will be able to circumvent the new flagship ATI Radeon HD 5800.

Model 480 and more than 470 junior is the first card NVIDIA, supporting DirectX 11 (and with time and OpenGL 4.0) with all its attendant benefits, such as a hardware tessellation. Architecture Fermi much better combined with the technology CUDA, DirectCompute and OpenCL. Both new cards are easily cope with the trace of lighting and rendering hair in real time.

With support for 3D Vision , two or three cards can operate in three three-dimensional displays.

Now more about the characteristics. Clock frequency of the main core GTX 480 is 700 MHz, memory GDDR5 – 1,5 GB memory frequency – 1.85 GHz, power consumption – 250 Tues This card will cost $ 499.

Model 470 operates at 607-GHz core, it has 1.2 GB of memory GDDR5, the memory frequency – 1.67 GHz. But more than acceptable power consumption and price: 215 watt and $ 349.

Via Electronista

Nvidia will provide the following series of graphics cards – GTX 470 and GTX 480 – PAX East at the exhibition on March 26. The new cards, according to Nvidia, will implement all the capabilities of DirectX 11 at full capacity.

Based on the chipset GF100, graphics cards, according to Nvidia, have been created from scratch, so that they can most effectively work with the technology of parallel computing, embedded in DirectX 11.

Both cards will be equipped with 512 stream processors, technologies Parallel DataCache, Nvidia GigaThread and support of EEC. In general, each card will be on 3 billion transistors. GTX 470 and GTX 480 will receive 1 and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, respectively.

Via TechRadar