GeForce GTX 480 with 512 shaders spotted

Posted on Wednesday, August 04 2010 @ 15:43 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Expreview received pictures of a new GeForce GTX 480 model that features the full 512 shaders and the same frequencies as the standard GeForce GTX 480.

Happening by a fortunate chance, a mysterious friend provided us some information about GeForce GTX 480, which comes equipped with 512 streaming multiprocessor (SM) , that is to say, the card is based on the whole GF100.

As screenshot shown, the yellow tantalum capacitors cover the whole PCB comes first, and the card uses a 8 phase power design, as well as a 8pin+8pin power adapter; Meantime, the card carries 12 GDDR5 granularity, it’s equipped 1536MB of memory size paired up with 384bit memory interface; It packs dual DVI+mini-HDMI connectivities too, the former interface adopts metallic shield design to reduce electromagnetic interference.

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Re: GeForce GTX 480 with 512 shaders spotted
by Anonymous on Thursday, August 05 2010 @ 4:45 CEST

Lack of displayport is an error, imo.
Dual 8 pin power I see.
With all those capacitors, hope the heat comes out well controlled.

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