The 6 month wait for Fermi is finally over. Today NVIDIA is launching their first two Fermi family products: The GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Based on the GF100 GPU, the GTX 400 series is targeted directly at the high of the market, competing against AMD’s Radeon 5800 series.

NVIDIA has promissed a great deal about the Fermi family. It's supposed to be a compute monster, a tessellation powerhouse, and of course great at games. A 3 billion transistors and over 500mm2 in die size it's certainly some kind of giant.

So how does it stack up? We've run NVIDIA's latest through our new GPU test suite to see if NVIDIA can deliver on their promises, justify their pricing, and take back their single-GPU performance crown.

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