For the long awaiting fans and supporters of NVIDIA GPUs, the long delayed GTX 480 and 470 was finally benchmarked by Tom's Hardware (again, copying!). We hoped some extra boost on power and efficiency (price? don't think about it, they're high-enders) from the delay that's almost one year. But, it comes out that it did beaten Radeon HD5870 and HD5850 in performance, but their brother, Radeon HD5970 seems to still taking the performance crown in the comparison. But, the Radeon HD5970 was lost in power consumption and heat output from GTX 470. Unfortunately, the Radeon HD58** brothers won the comparison by having the lowest power consumption and heat output. This clearly stated that GTX 480 and 470 was in the middle of the Radeon Family, rather than outperforming all of them in terms of power consumption and heat output or performance and efficiency. So, this is all we got from the delay we'd waiting for? Not so fast!
Although I'm one of Radeon fanboys, but I expected NVIDIA to be the best in performance, both in quality and speed, not only speed and fps, as they're quite useless for human eyes (30 fps is enough for me). But according to Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA was taking a long time in researching softwares, CUDA and GPGPU (CPU calculations using GPU). NVIDIA 'is' the best one for folding, they're good in calculations and all related things, so that's why they have high fps. But, it's already defined from the name, it's Graphic Card, not Physics Calculation Card. So, it must do best in what it functioned for, displaying graphics in games and all sorts of things that required graphics. So, which one is better, NVIDIA or ATi? Never ask that type of question or you'll start an internet war or Cyberwar, especially in computer enthusiasts forums.
Source: GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards! (Tom's Hardware)
(thanks for Tom's Hardware, good luck NVIDIA. Radeon, Donto Koi!)
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