Nvidia to release new GPU(finally)

Well after ATI enjoying having no competition for the past few months after the launch of there new DX11 5xxx series card Nvidia have finally released a launch date for their new Dx11 range.

The new Range will be using the “Fermi” GPU should start with the launch of the Geforce GTX 470 and GTX 480 on March 26th 2010. There still isn’t much been said around the new card performance and specification, it has been said that the new core was about 40% faster @ CES but since then have been rather tight lipped and nvidia hasn’t confirmed that rumour, so all we know for sure is that it support DX11 so will have tesslation.

Even though there have been no specs release yet, a couple of US site already have the new cards listed up they are expected to sell for US$699(~$780 AUD) for the GTX 480 and US$499(~$560 AUD) for the GTX 470, so going off a price viewpoint the GTX 480 is nvidia competition to the ATI 5970 and the 470 is to compete with the 5870, there is no news on any lower range cards so yet to be seen if the new Fermi will have a mid/low range of cards, or if nvidia are just going to let there current range of GPU hold that market segement for now, which again will give a large slice of the market to ATI as they will be the only manufacture support budget DX11 cards.

As normal expect to see ATI cards price plummet once nvidia releases on there new cards, so if you are deciding to get a 5850 or jump $200 and get a 5870, hold out for a month because it almost certain that the 5870 should drop $100 buck or so pretty quickly. Be interesting to see if the wait from nvidia has brought an benefit and they can compete with ATI new super fast 5xxx range.