XFX GeForce GTX 480, GTX 470 Pictures Leaked

oh lordy look at that 480 such a menacing heatsink

Thats one awesome looking video card.
Deserving of its unofficial nickname "The Worlds FASTEST "

you probably need a nuclear powerplant to run one lol

Damn, at least it looks sexy.

I stopped holding my breath two months ago, and got a couple 5770's. From the sounds of it I made the right decision.

I'm tired of Tom's hyping of everyone for nVidia. Did you do this for ATI? No, I didn't think so.

looks as potent as a 5870!! impressive!

i wonder how much it cost ~ 100 bucks ?! LOL

meh i was waiting for ati's price-drops when this is released .

Again with PICTURES? Please stop posting these stupid "news".

Hopefully all the more recent rumors are wrong and the GTX 480 is at least 20% faster than the 5870, because if nothing else that is an awesome looking heatsink.

It's all about the stability - sick of my ATI vertical line/grey screen crashes. My old Nvidia never crashed this much - heck no video card I owned in the last 10 years crashed so much as my ATI 5770, and I am not the only one with this issue - just read the official ati forums - it's a nightmare.

haha i have to say it does look very nice..only if it was cheaper

I'm suprised they did not include and intercooler because of all the 'w' usage what was it 295w?

So everytime someone whips it out for Nvidia, Toms will show the pictures?... The only thing I hope to get out of these cards is an eventual ATI price drop...

Hmm, interestingly, it takes the shape of a reference Quadro. (minus the 295w TDP and monster heatsink to accommodate it)

henrystrawn, That's exactly what I did. I have one 5770, one to go!

the_krasno, I agree with you.

Well, this will be interesting. Even as an ATi user, a card that can run C++ natively is pretty neat (providing it even hits the market...)

looks good, wonder how large it is.

Glad to know people can tell how fast it's going to be by looking at it. Moving right along...

Looks great, nice case art, but then again, its just art, a nice looking case, and a nifty cooler, we just cant wait for the full specs and actual benchmarks!!! 320bit for the 870 sounds fimiliar though. Wasnt the 8800GTS also 320 bit?!? I wonder why it was never followed up for the 9xxx series.......

I have a theory about this card. I theorize that its essentially a 285 with an all new chip, and a larger amount of faster ram which is where its getting all of its speed from. Its the same size as the 285 and uses the same power as the 295. Oh and btw if you arent going to go with SLi a 750w psu will run it. go to http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp and put your stats in (dont forget the capacitor aging).

I have a i7 920 and a velociraptor and an 8800gtx and Im only using 485W with 30% capacitor aging allowed for. When I put in the 295 (since the gtx480 is using the same wattage) it bumps up to 587w. So to run SLi you'll need 802W minimum. So an 850 or 900 would run SLi 480s. Its really not that bad guys.

Those boxes are sexy...oh and the cards are nice too!

The cards look pretty cool, I doubt they will be cool temps though.
And performance is definitely up in the air.

Cool I get to buy the Bitchen Fast 3D, the 480 is of no surprise that have such a cooler but didn't expect the heat pipes. I have to admit they got looks right now I want benches and videos.

Heatpipes are cool if is an optional feature to add extra cooling for quieter performance, or extra overhead for overclocks as with the sapphire "vapor x" cards. But if pipes are a required element for the reference design, then this is not a good thing, not good at all.

Thats one hell of a heatsink on the GTX480, making the supposed 295W TDP seem plausible unfortunately. It definitely makes use of certain cases to house the cards extremely plausible unfortunately.