nVidia please slash those prices thanks to AMD.

[Destiny]

I was waiting for the 6800s but the price dropped on a GTX 470 the week before the barts were released... picked one up at Fry's and I'm loving it... I built my PC in Sept with the original plan to install a ATI 5850 or a AMD 6870 - hence the 550Watt PSU... but when I installed the GTX 470 its been working with no issues at all! It runs cooler and quieter than what other people are saying in my opinion... based on AnAndTech reviews I'm keeping my GTX470 - I originally was planning to return it and pick up a AMD 6870.... but I'm very happy with the way my GTX470 performs. My FPS gaming Kill/Death Ratio sky rocketed with the GTX470 that the servers' Admin kept kicking/banning me because they thought I was hacking...
It runs silky smooth at 1080p... I'm planning to pick up a 3D montior when more 3D games are available... I heard rumors that the new AMD 6800s have FPS issues with 3D Stereoscopic gaming (don't know if its true)?:hmm:

The extra 256MB (1024MB vs 1280MB) in memory and 320Bit vs 256bit makes a difference too in my opinion (but I could be wrong). I'm running everything Maxed/Ultra setttings and it is silky smooth. Again - FPS and performance varies of course based on the person's rig... Based on my experience I'm keeping the GTX 470... plus I'm planning to do some video and photo editing for commercial and marketing for my job - and I heard that the GTX 400 series was better for that anyways...

 

[Hauk]

Hauk thinks Tweakboy should get a 470 too.

 

[toyota]

I would get a gtx460 and probably oc to it 800-825. anything above 850 with extra voltage and the gtx470 starts making more sense. then again the gtx470 cards that are not much more than the gtx460 have the crappy noisy reference cooler.

 

[Hauk]

This is why I hope nVidia is working on 570ish card in addition to a 580. The waters between 460 and 470 are muddy as hell now..

 

[ability]

Any news on when the 480 will drop in price? This is the last piece to my puzzle, I'm on my new machine running my old 8800GT, I want to upgrade the final piece!

 

[Arkadrel]

Also as far as going the RED way and doing crossfire like suggested is something I will not do. After my x800XT PE and Catalyst driver problems left and right I completly gave up on ATI/AMD their drivers are thick and resource hog and just buggy. Their hardware is fantastic its the drivers that scare me and lure me away from them and go the Green way nVidia.... I think 8800GT as phsyx card and 470 as primary card will do justice I want to wait until the supposed 580 is released so the price of the 470 will slash to 200 or below not 260 bucks like it is now.

I just wanted to say that you should give amd/ati a chance... they got their act together.

I keep hearing nvidia guys go on and on about drivers, but Ive never had any issues. To me whenever someone says that, I think oh gawd, heres another nvidia fanboi makeing things up.

It could be that maybe in the past it was a bigger issue, but the 4xxx and 5xxx Ive owned havnt given me any issues at all. I used to use nvidia only before the 4xxx card I got. I turned ATI/amd fanboy from that experiance (in short I was happy with the change).

Any news on when the 480 will drop in price? This is the last piece to my puzzle, I'm on my new machine running my old 8800GT, I want to upgrade the final piece!

That will happend when the 6950-6970 comes out and beats it in performance at a lower price.
Nvidia will be forced to drop prices on those too (like they did with the 460-470s). So wait 3 weeks or so and you should see HUGE price drops in the 480s (nvidia been greedy priceing them as they are currently)

 

[VirtualLarry]

One reason to pick a 460 over a 470 is power consumption

Not if you plan on OCing the 460 to any significant degree.

 

[JimmiG]

Not if you plan on OCing the 460 to any significant degree.

Increasing the clock speed only has a small impact on power consumption compared to the extra 1 billion transistors of the 470.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/...enewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market/20

The overclocked GTX460 at 850 MHz/4 GHz only uses 27W more than the stock GTX460 at 675 MHz/3.6 GHz, and that's running Furmark. In Crysis, the difference is only 20W. The 470 on the other hand still uses 50 to 55W more than the overclocked GTX460.

This is why I think a GTX460 at 800 - 900 MHz with all shaders enabled would be the best way for Nvidia to compete with the 6800 series. The GF100-based chips are just too big and power hungry except for the ultra high-end market.

Notice that the Radeon cards do significantly better, however. So if you really care about power consumption, you definitely want a Radeon card. This has been true for several years now.

 

[Obsoleet]

Also as far as going the RED way and doing crossfire like suggested is something I will not do. After my x800XT PE and Catalyst driver problems left and right I completly gave up on ATI/AMD their drivers are thick and resource hog and just buggy. Their hardware is fantastic its the drivers that scare me and lure me away from them and go the Green way nVidia.... I think 8800GT as phsyx card and 470 as primary card will do justice I want to wait until the supposed 580 is released so the price of the 470 will slash to 200 or below not 260 bucks like it is now.

That's a lie because AMD didn't own ATI back then. They do now. I use a 5870 everyday and haven't had a Radeon since the 9800. It's my favorite video card I've ever owned besides my Diamond Monster 3D.

I've been burned by nearly every company out there, and writing one off forever is the fool's choice. I'm total bandwagon + cheap thrill fanboy. Bandwagon because there's good reason something is hot right now, and you can never turn down a cheap thrill. Right now, AMD is the way to go, and has been hot since the 4800s IMO.

Poor move. A 6850 would start off with great drivers on day 1, use less power, be just as fast and likely overclock more.