Perhaps the most striking feature of the GTS 480 hardware is the enormous heatsink that protrudes from the card's plastic shroud. This is needed to cope with the temperatures output by the GPU.
 

Perhaps the most striking feature of the GTS 480 hardware is the enormous heatsink that protrudes from the card's plastic shroud. This is needed to cope with the temperatures output by the GPU.

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Photos: NVIDIA's new GeForce GTS 480

NVIDIA has announced its new flagship graphics card, based upon the long awaited Fermi architecture. The GeForce 480 is big, hot and power hungry, which has led to some interesting design choices. Before getting the card onto our testbenches we took some shots to show off the features of the NVIDIA Geforce 480 reference hardware.

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