Nvidia Releases Most Powerful Graphics Cards on the Planet, Sold Out Everywhere March 27, 2010

Last night Nvidia finally released their Geforce 480 and Geforce 470 graphics cards to the world.  These cards are Nvidia’s flagship Directx 11 cards based upon their Fermi graphics processors and currently both outperform all other graphics cards currently avalible.  The hardware is the first major revision that Nvidia has done in several years, and it is a few years coming.  Up until this point, Nvidia has only released Directx 10 cards since their powerful 8 series.

I, being a person who has one of those 8 series cards, have waited years for this release.  A check of Newegg this afternoon showed all 470 and 480 cards by all manufacterers to be completely sold out, apparently I wasn’t the only one waiting, but unlike the others waiting, they had the money up front.  I haven’t seen a rush to buy graphics cards since the 6800 Ultra was released, but then again it’s been a long while since such a clear cut powerful card has been released to the PC Gaming enthusiasts.