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Regardless of brand preference, any time AMD and NVIDIA release a new generation of architecture, we technologists and consumers of technology should get excited. These companies bring to the table hardware that truly changes the way we look at computing. More now than ever, the GPU is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day computing experiences. No longer a product reserved for gamers, the GPU has expanded its role to take on more and more everyday computing tasks.
In today’s Windows 7 environment, technologies like DirectX 11 with DirectCompute, and most notably NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture, the GPU is being used for everything from the mundane 3D acceleration of the Windows 7 Aero interface, to transcoding videos for use on portable media players, increasing the quality of standard definition video, 3D high definition movies, and yes, even gaming with eye-candy only imaginable just a few years ago.

So you can imagine that today’s release of the GTX 480 and 470, while a long time coming, is a very important event. We have our GeForce GTX 400-series landing page here - please check it out!

We’re lucky enough to share with you some internal impressions and numbers we’ve seen from NVIDIA’s latest and greatest. While we’ll show you the performance numbers you crave, we’re going to approach this from the standpoint of a system builder. There are plenty of great tech websites out there that will give you a comprehensive review, and we’ll be sharing some of the same data with you, and we know what everyone wants to see: SLI results. So we’ve quickly prepared some benchmarks with 1, 2, and 3-way Fermi.