http://www.tweaktown.com/news/14302/more_details_on_nvidia_fermi_price_psu_requirements_and_more/ind%20%20ex.htmli

TweakTown's own video card guru, Shane Baxtor has acquired some more specific details about NVIDIA's upcoming Fermi powered GTX 470, one of their first two DX11-ready cards to hit the market in answer to AMD's top-end HD 5800/5900 series.

With the very active rumour mill giving a hint that NVIDIA plan to make a big announcement regarding Fermi within the next 12 hrs, Shane gets an early scoop on the pricing and PSU requirements for the GTX 470. He learns that the official launch price looks to be $299 USD which sits in line with AMD's HD 5850, though performance is expected to be more around HD 5870 levels.


Power wise, NVIDIA is apparently slapping on a minimum requirement of 550 Watt, up slightly from AMD's min requirement on the HD 5850 at 500 Watt. In any case, it shouldn't matter to most people wanting a card like this, knowing full well that a quality PSU with plenty of headroom makes for a much more stable gaming rig.

In a separate posting, Shane is confident NVIDIA will announce their launch date for the Fermi cards within the next 12 or so hours which the rumour mill is indicating will be mid to late March. He also feels there may be an availability issue on the horizon with these cards due to the 1 year warranty that NVIDIA gives to its AIBs as opposed to a lot of the AMD cards on the market with 2 year warranties. This will make NV partners reluctant to carry a lot of stock of the cards as they know they'll need to offer 2 year warranties to stay competitive, but have fear of a lot of dead ones coming back to haunt them after the 1 year NV covered warranty period is up.

It looks like Nvidia is going to be so doomed exactly the same way as Sony did 

Everything I hear about Fermi is just doom and gloom :(

Somewhat different from Charlie's numbers.

It'll be interesting to see who ends up being right in the end...

^ It will be interesting indeed.

Even if Baxtor is right and Charlie is wrong, that is a lot of hurt for nVidia. It would be a ~500mm2 GPU with a complex 384 bit memory bus graphics card vs a 334mm2 chip with a 256 bit memory bus. End result, ATI cuts price down to $239 (where it started from memory) and nVidia bleeds lots of money for a fairly meaningless victory.

Wouldn't even be a victory, as with Fermi's rumoured power consumption the possibility of a dual GPU card is neg, so the chance of the 5970 being dethroned as fastest card is also neg.

This is true.

Plus, AMD could probably release a profitable 5890 anytime to put lots of pressure on Nvidia as well.

3DFX Voodoo needs to come abck and slap both Nvidia and ATI.

Nvidia cause they are overpriced and can't get their shit together and ATI cause they...ummm...they are...Canadian?

Pff, if anything, being Canadian's a plus for ATi.

Not after last nights hockey game...

Shit happens, and it's not like last night's game was worth much of anything anyhow.  We'll see who gets the Gold in the end~