Sylvanas
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- Jan 20, 2004
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Lets please not muddy up the waters around Nvidia gpus by giving names to cards which have never been mentioned by any reputable source.
There is no 455, no 460x2, no 475 and definetly no 485. The 480 was ment as the 512 part. All the other parts are cutdowns from this piece.
A fully unlocked 460 will not equal the current 480. That would be dreaming. It could however put up a fight against the 5870 if factory overclocked to what most good factory oc cards come as now, minimum 800mhz on the core.
If Nvidia does come with a refresh sometimes next year, id imagine a late spring release, much like the gtx480 or a summer realease like gtx460. ANd yes, they will probably then call the 512 part a gtx485. But nothing like that exists anywhere yet.
There was this in addition to random PCB shots and specs arriving every now and then. It depends how Nvidia wants to play it with a 512 Fermi. It's relatively easy to just harvest good 512 yielding cores and sell them at a high price with perhaps slightly higher clocks, it's much more of an investment to do a 'revB' core much like Intels Q6600 G0 stepping CPU that lowered temps/power consumption with higher clocks with a minor redesign.
I'm sure we will know more come launch day for AMD's 6xxx series.
