Nvidia Touts (Quiet) 'Fastest DX11 GPU on Planet!'

Just a rehashed 480 with more performance "unlocked" from the drivers.
Still will be interesting if the cooling and performance pan out, and look forward to the battle between it and the 69XX series.

Hope that bad boy's adequately sealed - dropping the cash for the then-fastest DX11 GPU on the market, only to have its water chamber leak onto the rest of your $2000+ system would make for a bad day.

yay! another price drop just around the corner! *drool*
will be rooting for the gtx 460's!

Frankly, I don't care whether AMD or nVidia has the fastest GPU... I'm more concern about the price drops that will follow suit after new and better products come out

So now you'll be able to boil water for your tea while playing crysis.

I think they should fight the temperatures at the source- reducing power usage.


Anyway, nvidia is the way I'll go, since ATI/AMD has s#itdrivers for linux.

This sounds like the same thing Shuttle designed into their XPC line like 10 years ago, and cpu/gpu cooler makers have been toying with ever since. Except instead of water, they use a pressurized refrigerant with more ideal phase-change properties to move heat faster and to not pose a hazard if it ever leaked. How is this any different from one of those systems?

That's some serious claims they're making there. Hopefully manufacturers will begin focusing more on noise as well.

47db is not what I would consider quiet.

Nothing new with the vapor chamber, ATI used it in the 2000 series and I am sure they were not first do so either.

"It's a MILLION times better then the old GTX480! Although, thats not saying much since other things that were a MILLION times better then the old GTX480 included syphilis, and tuberculosis... and things like being on fire!"

Perfect Description! Tell me if you know where this is from!

... so the GPU will theoretically be not hotter the boiling point of water? so it will be about 100 c'...

Marcus, Nvidia already has the fastest DX11 GPU on the planet, the GTX 480. ATI's 5970 is faster but it has two GPUs.

Can someone correct me if I'm wrong?

How is that gonna cool anything? Won't the condensed water just run into the hot water that's on its way up? Then just head back up again?

Sapphire has been using vapor cooling for a while using Vapor-X on the (old) ATI's...

Wait , wait wait ... Am I the only one that is getting a deja vu here . He says its a brand new termal solution !!! Come on . here is a link that ati was testing it back in 2008 : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/r [...] 6523.html.

"Nvidia wouldn't reveal the name of the p"

really now?

Pretty much, yes. Not only that, but water boils at 100°C (212°F). I'm not sure I want my GPU to get that hot.

"IS IT CALLED SUPERMAN??"

47dba? What they use? A fan or a speaker. That's still loud as hell.

Sapphire had a Vapor-X version of the HD 4850 in 2008, IIRC, using this technology. I guess it's mature enough to be trusted by now.

47dB is excellent news IMO. My trusty old 8800GTX is rated at 61 dB under load, and it's several times weaker than the GTX 480.

It's likely a slightly redesigned GF100 similar to a less gpgpu heavy version like the GF104 it's why all rumors point to a GF110 instead of GF100b. In other words this is frankly no different then what amd does from year to year, just tweak what you have don't necessarily make a new chip.



It is for a gpu under heavy load, most high end gpus would do worse then this.

This kind of cooling has been used for heat pipes, all a vapor chamber is is just a flat heatpipe.



The technology has been around for much longer then that. It's just a matter of cost and performance.

Figures, thanks.

Not if it's in a vacuum it doesn't, at 260mb the boiling point is about 69°C.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presen [...] 0801&lid=1 Sapphire Vapor-X series cards have been around a while but they have a nice white paper on the tech for those interested.

ATI 2900xtx retail card had a vapor chamber and as you can see above many other partners for both AMD/ATI and Nvidia have been using them.

We need the release date, before that, nobody know the real performance of it (except nVidia).

First things first. That vapor chamber is gonna have to withstand a LOT of temperatures and pressures. Nobody will be happy having water in their computer. Plus, this means your case MUST BE standing upright and the heatsink facing upward. What if you have a case of a different shape and have your mobo horizontal. Yet another problem. Besides, even if they do snatch the performance crown, it wont be long till ATI releases a good card that will just blow it out of the water, hah, maybe it will before they do even =P

the skeptic in me couldn't help but noticed that it requires liquid cool..

exit jokes about making your breakfast enter jokes about heating your shower..

The rumours suggest that GF110 has fewer transistors than the GF100 so that makes it a different GPU even if it is only a tweak, just like the HD6xxx's are just tweaked HD5xxx's as you say.

That's not the way it works. The boiling point of water might be 100C, but measured Temperature is generally a measure of AVERAGE kinetic energy, not a fixed absolute value. Water left outside in a glass will eventually evaporate, even though the outside temperature is nowhere near 100C. This is because while the average temperature of the water is basically the same as the air temperature, a few of those water molecules (out of the whole bunch) absorb enough energy from the environment to reach that boiling point and evaporate out of the glass.

In anycase, I'm pretty sure this is the same as Saphire's Vapor-X coolers, which I have been fairly happy with in the past. I bet Saphire wasn't the first to do it either.

Water doesnt always boil at 100. It's based on atmospheric pressure. Lower the pressure enough water will boil at 90F. They have a small toy that shows that process.

Phase change is one way to move heat energy.

Sapphire Vapor-X no? Seems like ATI still would be leading in terms of technology.