GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards!

[builderbobftw]

Goddamn. I like Nvidia, and have used thier products in the class.

But the sad fact of the matter is that GF 100 loses to Cryprus in Price, Preformance and Power.

0/3, Way to go Nvidia!!!!!

 

[Sunburn74]

Man I'm not sure how exactly they tested for temps (whether in a case or on a bench), but man if you have a case that doesn't have a massive side fan, these gpus are gonna raise the temp of every component. Its one thing for nvidia to say "our gpus can survive 97 degree celcius temps", but they have no claim for what that does to your chipset, your hard drives, and the rest of your PC over the long run

 

[Johnpombrio]

Y'know, I think I bought too much GPU when I got my ATI 5870 a month ago. At 1920 by 1200, any one of these cards would give me great frame rates. With more temperature headroom,
I could also o/c my ATI 5870 to match the GTX480.
What impresses me is how well the GTX295 did in this roundup.

 

[kevin1212]

Isn't this exactly what happened to ATI with their 2900XTX? My how the tables have turned.

 

[reprotected]

@Sunburn74, the heat is in the GPU, it won't burn up your case to 97. The only reason why I'm not so pissed is because I'm not buying a new computer. I like the SLI though, it can seriously rip 5970, and I don't feel as Nvidia was looking for performance as much as balance. I do think though SLI is better than CrossfireX, PhysX still prefers Nvidia and GTX 480 kills the 5870/5970 in tessellation.

 

[utgardaloki]

I think nvidia needs to get their act together. If it weren't for 3D vision I would probably switch to ATI for the next up-grade. Waiting to see how ATI's 3D solution turns out. If it's as good as nvidia's I'm switching.

 

[kevin1212]

Just saw over at techspot that the GTX 480 wins with crysis, what happened there?

 

[spoofedpacket]

[citation][nom]tpi2007[/nom]hmmm.. so this is a paper launch... six months after and they do a paper launch on a friday evening, after the stock exchange has closed.. smart move by Nvidia, that way people will cool off during the weekend, but I think their stocks won't perform that brilliantly on monday...[/citation]

If you think Nvidia's stock is going to move anywhere over a gaming video card, you've got a lot to learn about Nvidia.

 

[garandx]

Seems like its kind of a bad time for both ATI and Nvidia, Nividia has a sub-par launch of a bloated, hungry, hot card, and ATI is having some good supply issues with its higher end cards resulting in some quite startling markups from MSRP. *Sigh*

 

[muharizj]

4870x2's all the way - maaan am I glad I bought the x2 almost 2 years ago. Nvidia SUX. Waiting all this time and the x2 is very close in most benchies that truly count.

 

[coolkev99]

This seems like the launch of the PS3. Overhyped and anti-climactic performace. I guess waiting will eventually bring out the best in this series.. however, many of us have already waited long enough.

 

[LATTEH]

I bet ATI is very happy

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Why no Dx11 for Dirt2 and STALKER ?

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]JackNaylorPE[/nom]Why no Dx11 for Dirt2 and STALKER ?[/citation]

As explained in the story, DiRT 2 has a bug where it won't recognize the GTX 480/470 as DX11-capable, so we had to force all cards to DX9 or drive around with the retail version manually. For STALKER, we were looking to compare apples to apples in DX10. Used Bad Company 2 and Metro for DX11.

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]kevin1212[/nom]Just saw over at techspot that the GTX 480 wins with crysis, what happened there?[/citation]

Well, it depends what you're look at/for. With AA enabled, the 480 does take first place at 2560x1600 in Crysis. Benchmark settings, resolutions, and workload all make a notable difference in the results.

 

[e-rock]

Toms Hardware Editors Pick For "people will still buy it because it's from Nvidia " Award.When ATI deserves the crown this time.

 

[falchard]

I find there to be some interesting bits and some... terrible disapointments in this card.

The GTX480 has 50% more transistors then the HD5870, yet it can only muster 10~15% more FPS. Its not going to take much for AMD to make a better card then this. It also comes at a price, heat, and power premium. I think nVidia forgot that they first should make a GPU, and second should make a GPGPU.

The interesting part is the tesselation performance. With their setup they have less of a hiccup from tesselation, but it comes at a drop in overall performance. Is nVidia tesselation better because it has less of a drop, or is AMDs solution better because of nVidia's overall poor use of transistors?

 

[psychoticdream]

thank you for yet another awesome review

 

[aethm]

Actually... they fared better than I thought. I doubt I'll buy anything though until game developers actually utilize this kind of power (if ever) the way things are going.

 

[enzo matrix]

I think I'll stick with my radeon 3870

 

[xsamitt]

I think I'll be waiting for the 6000 series from ATI.I'll be gaming at 2550by1440.And I want a more powerful card than what either team has right now.Though if i were buying right now it would be the Red team for sure.The green team is just much to hot and power hungry fro me.

 

[LePhuronn]

Did we honestly expect anything else?

 

[brennon7]

3 screen BENCHMARKS IN ALL REVIEWS FROM NOW ON!!!!!! 5760 x 1080 This single monitor crap is pointless. NO difference in 200fps and 60fps on a monitors that refresh at 60hz

 

[cybot_x1024]

Q: Can it play Crysis?
A: Well, maybe with walking sticks, coz its a crippled card.

 

[daniel266]

Can we have some 2d Benchmark??
and can you test these cards on Photoshop and autocad to see if the nvidia cards and the new cuda beats ati versions ??