MSI Claims ''World's Fastest'' Single-GPU Card
The N480GTX Lightning reached P39281 on 3DMark Vantage.
MSI is claiming the title of “world’s fastest” with the launch of its single-GPU graphics card, the N480GTX Lightning. According to the company, the card established a new world record by reaching P39281 through 3DMark Vantage. It achieved this milestone thanks to the overclocking capabilities of the new Power4 Architecture and a core clock of 1450 MHz (using liquid nitrogen).
"The N480GTX Lightning features the industry-first Power4 Architecture to enhance the relevant design and material of four types of power supply. These include 16 Phase PWM design to provide three times more electricity for the GPU; the next-gen capacitor, Proadlizer, to significantly enhance signal stability; the industry-best MOSEFT, CopperMOS, to supply sufficient and stable power to the GPU and memory; and the uniquely designed 6-pin power connector to provide the pure power for memory," the company said.
To keep things ultra-cool, MSI has implemented its latest Twin Frozr III thermal design, using two 9-cm PWN fans, its exclusive 8-mm SuperPipe technology, and two form-in-one heat-sinks. The overall design supposedly lowers the GPU temperature 18-degrees Celsius than the reference design, allowing for a greater potential to overclock.
In addition to the card, consumers will be supplied with MSI’s exclusive Afterburner utility for adjusting GPU and memory clocks, and for adjusting the voltage of the GPU, memory, and PCI-e combined, boosting the OC performance of up to 34-percent more than the reference design. Other features include Dual BIOS, a PWM Clock Tuner, next-gen military-class components, and more.
To learn more about MSI’s N480GTX Lightning powerhouse, head here.
Update: According to MSI, users can expect to achieve up to 900MHz on the stock cooler, but the card ships at 750MHz out of the box.
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Wow... so many buzz words... My head is going to explode!
More than a Graphics card... this is an Marks and Spencer... Oh sorry, it's an MSI Graphics card.
Does it FLY like a G6?
I seem to remember huge artical hyping up that toms overclocked a graphics card to 1 ghz for the first time ever. Somthing along those lines it was about a year agon i think. And here we have a graphics card a 1.4 ghz out of the box! Am i reading that correctly? Cause if it is THATS FRIGGING AWSOME AND I"M SOO GETTING ONE! Or if my wife says no then I"M SOO GETTING A GTX 580 when it comes out.
Seriously, SOAB, I just recently bought the MSI GTX 460 Hawk WTF??? AND 2-3 WEEKS LATER COMES THIS.. WOW?
Save the money and wait for the 580 to drop.
i'm sorry i don't own a nuclear power plant ...
sounds like a benchmark, but on the other hand let's wait until some testing in game before we go crazy over this thing
Well 6 core 6 ghz per core might help also... lol
Hmmm using this might be cheaper to use than central heat during what is to be the coldest winter in living memory but right now no thanks temps are still rising outside and the sun has gone down. Solar activity has gone through the roof in the past two weeks.
Does it FLY like a G6?
Thanks Palit, I already had that song stuck in my head :-P
MSI is just getting better and better with their products. Love it.
Damn! I just hope that the requirement don't include:
A power supply dedicated only to the graphic card!
READ:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func= [...] cat_no=130
750mhz core.
Derp.
READ:http://www.msi.com/index.php?func= [...] cat_no=130750mhz core.Derp.
Actually, my derp. MSI has a screenshot with 1450mhz clock.
Even so, someone messed up and sold this card short lol.
What! You need two PCI-e 8-pins and one PCI-e 6-pin? Oh well... I guess by looking at the MSI board, i can somehow add a water block and overclock it over 1.1 ghz, if the MSI enchantments really work better than the reference one. At those speeds, it will be faster than a 5870 crossfire configuration.
PWN fans huh?
MSI FTW. Between their exclusive lucid hydra, great performing (and looking!) motherboards, and really excellent GPU's, they are doing quite well.
It requires it's own circuit & a 20 amp breaker.....
Bogus. Note 1: "The world record is broken by N480GTX Lightning under LN2 extreme overclocking."
So, with the stock cooler (even if it is a good one), you won't get anywhere near there.
Nothing but hype. Next...
Save the money and wait for the 580 to drop.
Like an article before, I have to say a non-cut down versionof Fermi is not worth the wait. If you want want to wait go ahead I'm going to grab a Radeon HD 6970 and see if its the single gpu king.
OOh I may just have to remortgage my house for that setup...lol
As a quarter of the article is about their new cooler, how do you use LN2 with an air cooler? 1450 core would probably be sucking down 350-500W, so the card that accomplished this is really only related to this one in the PCB/ components used. Nice card for sure, but you won't get this card above 1GHz core.
This claim is not worth much...
In about 2 weeks... ATI 6950/70 whatever will hit the market.
still pretty good.
I'm liking my 460 hawk edition.. 31% oc woot.
Like an article before, I have to say a non-cut down versionof Fermi is not worth the wait. If you want want to wait go ahead I'm going to grab a Radeon HD 6970 and see if its the single gpu king.
So, basically. Having never seen a bench on either, and having not even seen official specs on the new nvidia card (which I'm still skeptical it will be out this year) you've made a decision. Either you're a real amd fanboy or you're just excited and making rash decisions.
I am gonna get this card just so I can read my e-mails faster!
What an overkill for an average user!
LOL "using liquid nitrogen" that plus the cost of everything else will make getting that score cost you more then the computer itself.
Benchmarks shouldn't count unless you can play a full game start to finish at the speed stated.
Don't HD4890's go above 900mhz core clock?
Like an article before, I have to say a non-cut down versionof Fermi is not worth the wait. If you want want to wait go ahead I'm going to grab a Radeon HD 6970 and see if its the single gpu king.
It will be. 30% expected performance boost over 5870 means it can be beyond GTX480s limits. Then it will overclock. Remember, this is an overclocked GTX480 we are talking about.