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Nvidia announced their new GPUs codenamed "Fermi". These are a pretty radical changes compared to their previous GPUs. It features an L1 and L2 cache which is a first for a GPU and has been designed from the beginning with GPGPU performance in mind. Nvidia pretty much has a chokehold on the GPGPU market already and with this it's pretty much over at least for now for AMD/ATI in this market. In fact the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 the high performance rendering/playback engine is written in nvidia's proprietary coding language called CUDA and will not run on an AMD. Adobe did this cause nvidia has the marketshare and OpenCL just isn't up to snuff in it's current edition to do what Adobe needs.

Anyways in regards to graphics the 480GTX is as good or better than the AMD 5870 and I'd expect performance to improve as Nvidia tweaks their drivers. The 470GTX is as good or better than the 5850.

The only problem with these cards is that they eat a shit ton of power! A single GTX 480 uses more power than the ATi 5970 which is two GPUs on one chip.

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Retail prices for the 480 and 470 are $500 and $350 accordingly.

Full review here

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=888

They should be available on or around April 12th.

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I'm looking to hearing about the improvements in the GPGPU area, I expect them to be big. I think it's no coincidence that the launch date for these GPUs is April 12th which just so happens to be the day that Adobe announces their CS5 suite including the new Premiere Pro that using the Nvidia CUDA GPGPU technology.

I know a guy who does HD video in Premiere Pro and he was asking me to build him a system that would be able to handle HD video without skipping in Premiere Pro, I've been telling him to wait until now. I think my plan is gonna workout. I'm probably gonna go with the GTX 470, Core i7 860, 8GB of RAM and Premiere Pro CS5. I hope I get to play with this system, it's gonna be sick nasty!

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Here's Premiere Pro CS5 in action using the Nvidia CUDA powered playback engine! This is on GPU used inthe demo too so I expect the GTX 470 to be better.

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