Especially interesting are the results of the Unigine benchmarks, based on DirectX 11 and uses tessellation.
Nvidia announced in advance, would be the Fermi-enabled graphics cards, the HD-Tessellation 5800er cards significantly outperform.
This we were able to adjust with the provisional benchmark results on the
CeBIT
in Hanover.Thus achieved at a fourfold anti-aliasing, the GeForce GTX 470 averaged 29 frames per second (fps), a Radeon HD 5870 around 27 fps, the HD 5850 only 22 fps.
At eight times the anti-aliasing, however, the performance of the GeForce 470 GTX breaks strong.
Then reached only 20 fps, a Radeon HD 5870 is just under 23 fps faster, the Radeon HD 5850 (19 fps) is subject only slightly.
Also built into the BIOS of the preliminary test card, we were able to take a look.
The shader cores were running with 1255 MHz, the GDDR5 memory, with only 1600 MHz (read-write clock).
Nvidia seems much slower than AMD's memory tact, however, resembles that of the higher number of data lines again.
However, the specifications of the card are not yet final, therefore the test results can also enjoy with caution, in the 3D performance, however, no major changes more likely.
Currently, even rumored to be that the graphics chip, the GeForce GTX 480 will not have the full 512 shader cores.
Even Nvidia would not confirm to us in conversation that the GTX 480 actually has 512 cores.
Thus, it was pointed out that we hadpresented
in January, although the GF100 at full expansion (ie 512 seeds), but had never explicitly announced that the GeForce GTX 480 actually has this number of cores.
In fact, Nvidia has for some time after the architectural idea in January, only the names of the first two high-end graphics cards announced.
Clarity, it will be until the
27th
Give
in March,
when Nvidia will officially introduce the card.
Yet the board partners themselves seem not much about the upcoming cards to know what some manufacturers were upset.
So Nvidia will inform his partner until next Monday on the final specifications, the first cards to arrive two weeks later in their camps.
While some partners were already confident that quite sufficient quantities of the new cards from the 29th
March will be out of stock.
Concerned about them, but the price / performance ratio.