@Kigmal:
Nah it can't. CE2 has a lot of procedural texturing features built in. And many other more advanced technologies that enable better realism.
@Kigmal:
They don't have a single flat rate for licensing on the CryEngine.
They review your application, and judge how much they would want you to pay based on the information you've given. That way small developers can license it also.
@kwyjibo:
It's around the same temperature as the 285 and around the same chip size. Sure in furmark it does get higher than the 285, but you're never going to get a game that pushes the card that hard.
As far as noise goes, well just have to see what different card manufacturers come out with. There are quieter fan designs for sure.
@kwyjibo:
Lol sure, I'm disappointed that the poor TSMC yields led to it being released this late. But I'm not disappointed at all with the actual card. It performs better than ATI's, in some scenarios by quite a large margin (and will increase more as drivers mature). Plus it's a whole new architecture for Nvidia to build from. With some amazing technical advances on the general computing side. Thanks to Nvidia this year my rendering time in Maya and Softimage is going to be cut...
Or you could wait for the refresh of Fermi! Or you could wait for the next generation from ATI! Or you could wait for the next, next generation!
<_<
@kwyjibo:
The increase in power is about the same as another lightbulb in your home, that's not on 24/7. That's nothing to really care about at all.
Guess you must live in an area where electricity is very expensive then. Upgrading to a card like this would merely be like adding an extra light bulb or two in your home. Which, at least where I live, doesn't increase your bill very much.
Actually the reduction to 480 is for yield purposes. The actual GPU wattage on the 480 is similar to last gens 285, although somewhat higher when pushing the card on super high load with furmark. So with the full 512 cores it would still easily fit within the 300watt max TDP.
http://www.hardwareheaven.c...
It's less than $100 more.
In a lot of cases it's much ...
Some people do more than just game on their PC's. And NVidia is starting to accelerate a lot of different software these days. And made it even easier for developers to port their applications with the new tech in Fermi. Rendering with any Autodesk product is going to take vastly less time now due to CUDA accelerated ray-tracing. It's a dream come true.
And gaming wise, the performance increase is actually pretty good for the money. And it's sure to get better as the drivers matu...
"One of the reason nvidia delayed this card was to optimize the drivers for release. "
Yeah.. you pulled that "fact" right out of your ass. Nvidia delayed the card because of poor yields at TSMC.
@SoX FireBlade:
If you're into 3D and video editing then you're going to want Nvidia's GTX 480 or 470. With this newest generation they've made it much easier to GPU accelerate applications. And most of all, the new 2011 series of products from Autodesk coming out this April will use MentalRay 3.8 and it's new iRay feature, which is a completely GPU accelerated ray-tracer. And it uses CUDA, so it won't work on ATI cards. Plus MentalRay is part of Nvidia, so it probably won't ever...
@steve30x:
Multiple GPU wattage doesn't work like that. Just because 1 GPU recommends a 600watt PSU, doesn't mean a second one recommends a double the wattage one. The 600 watt recommendation is for the card and all the rest of the usual components in your computer. The actual wattage requirement for the card alone is much low. If you were going Tri-SLI then yeah, 1200 would be best to keep a little headroom. No games will push the kind of wattage needed for Furmark.
@commodore64:
Yeah, but..
GTX 480 = 93 degrees also
5970 = 86 degrees
7 degrees hotter is not a big deal at all. And this is under freaking furmark. No game will ever push your GPU as hard as furmark does. So these temperatures are perfectly fine and nothing to wine about. They shouldn't even play into your decision in most peoples cases.
And the 470 isn't even much more expensive than the 5850, especially considering the extra's yo...
@kwyjibo: The actual card they showed last year may have been a mock-up, but they still had a working chip hooked up at that event also, running some tests.
It's actually not much hotter. The 5870 reach's almost the same temperatures as the 480.
@Fatmanp:
You do realize the GTX 295 is a DUAL GPU card right? lol. It's good news that the GTX 480 and 470 are around the speed of the 295, while still being single GPU cards. And apparently from the benchmarks released, SLI works a whole lot better on this new series.
http://hardocp.com/article/...
You get a card that beats the 5870, quite a bit in many ...
Yep. CS5 is going to be epic, especially Flash. They have developed a way to convert your Flash app's into iPhone apps. So you don't need to use a sh*tty Mac to develop iPhone/Touch applications anymore! WOOT! Now I can take a piece of that market pie.
Flash CS5 also has physics built in, which will make many peoples jobs much easier.
@wibble:
Haha, well since you seem to be such an expert on DirectX 11, how about you tell us what about it is just marketing ploy to dupe stupid gamers huh?
New simplified multi-threading instructions to make games utilize multi-core CPU's better? Nope, that's not marketing ploy.
GPU accellerated tessellation of geometry to allow for an incredible amount of polygons to be rendered and then displaced, enabling for the most amazing graphics ever seen in ga...
Yeah lol. And the snowy area image seems to be from Crysis, when you're heading up the mountain to investigate the boat that's somehow up in the mountain.