The new generation of nvidia cards 480 and 470 gtx has been unleashed, both of them are based on GF100 graphics chips. The new chips started mass production this year, and are expected to be used in new video cards that will be launched around April 2010.
The GeForce GTX 480 will be the high end video card using 480 CUDA cores, 700 MHz graphics and 1,401MHz processor clock speeds, plus 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 memory running at 1,848MHz (for a 3.7GHz effective data rate), while the GeForce GTX 470 will be a more affordable card with a 40nm processor, 448 cores and a clock speed of 607Mhz which is paired up with 1.28GB of GDDR5 memory. Those graphics cards arrive with DirectX 11. NVIDIA recommends the use of a 600W power supply with the GTX 480, but that is just a minimum. Enthusiasts who want to prepare for a possible SLI setup should have a 1000W PSU at the minimum, with a 1200W PSU.
