On the road the GTX 485

The solution, based on the full-fledged GF100 chip, will arrive in the fall.

Nvidia chief engineer Bill Dally has already confirmed some details. The GTX 485 high-end card will feature 512 shaders and 64 texture units. In general,  the continuous improvement of TSMC's 40 nm production technology will enable the production of flawless GF100 chips in a few months. The peculiarity of the matter is that you have to wait a "modest" half a year for this.

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From the expected specifications, the GeForce GTX 485 has an advantage of approximately 10% over its predecessor. Interestingly, the memory clock has not increased, although the GTX 480 does not struggle with bandwidth issues. Hopefully the new cannon of the greens will also get a better cooling system, which might be a quieter construction.