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Geforce GTX 480 TDP at 250W

by on22 March 2010

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Not too high as some feared


One thing is finally clear. The Geforce GTX 480 specification is locked at this time and Nvidia works hard to ship as many card for its planned launch on 26th US/ 27th Europe. We already told you that it might be all the way to April 6th before you are able to buy the card but today we have the whole specification.

As we said earlier, the card has 480 cores with fifteen out of sixteen clusters enabled while the chip itself is designed with full 512 cores/shaders. The most important clock is the shader clock that today works at 1401MHz while the GPU clock is at round 700MHz. The memory clock is a quite unusual 1848MHz and the card itself has a 384-bit memory interface and comes with 1536MB of memory.

Fermi's TDP stirred up quite a bit of speculation, but we finally have some exact numbers. The TDP is not close to 300W as many have suggested before, it's 250W. This is much higher than the 188W TDP of Radeon HD 5870, but as long as Fermi Gefroce GTX 480 runs stable, it should satisfy its proud owners. The GTX 470 will obviously have a slightly lower TDP, probably slightly higher than HD 5870's TDP.

Last modified on 22 March 2010
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