Since they’d already shown us the box-art for their new video cards based on NVIDIA’s GTX 480/470 GPU, it perhaps comes as little surprise that ASUS have made their ENGTX480 and ENGTX470 cards official. Using the GeForce Fermi chips, the ENGTX480 uses the GTX480 core with 1401 stream processors and a 384-bit memory interface, while the ENGTX470 has 1215 stream processors.
They’re paired with 1536MB of GDDR3 memory on the ENGTX480 and 1280MB of memory on the ENGTX470. Both cards have twin dual-link DVI-I outputs and a single HDMI, and come with an adapter for VGA use; they’re capable of up to 2560 x 1600 DVI-I resolution or 2048 x 1536 D-Sub resolution.
While that might not sound like much different to the rest of the new GTX 480/470 boards we’ve seen, ASUS reckon their Smart Doctor Voltage Tweak system – which can boost performance by up to 50-percent with apparently minimal user-difficulty – together with benchmarking and other tools. No word on pricing as yet.
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