GTX 480/470 reviews and discussion

[hatter]

As it has been the tradition, let me open the thread

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[user67]

Re: GTX 480/470 reviews

Saw this just now at techpowerup forums…

Here’s the translated page:-

Google Traduire

[muzux2]

Re: GTX 480/470 reviews

i was about to post the same link…

btw, GTX 480/470 seems to walk over HD5870/5850 with ease… lets wait for more reviews though..)

[Happy_Singh]

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^^I didn’t see any benchmark in the link! then how GTX 480/470 seems to walk over HD5870/5850??

[desiibond]

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And the real reviews are out:

Hexus.net:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21651&page=17

Bottom line: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 could have easily been better, perhaps should have been considering the time of arrival, but we feel that, underscored and handicapped by a paradigm shift in GPU thinking, it retains enough features and visceral ooh la la to be worthy of a £400 price-tag, if not £450.

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after looking at the review, felt that though GTX480 is astronomically faster than HD5870, it’s performance got a hit and fell down to HD5870 framerates in DX11 mode of games.

Bad COmpany 2 : 4-9% better performance over HD5870

crysis warhead: -.2 to 14% faster

dirt 2 :

so, is there going to be a price cut on ATI HD5xxx cards, hell yes!

GTX480 is to be priced at $450 and current price of HD5870 is $440.
GTX470 is to be priced at $300-320 and current price of HD5850 is around $330.

am pretty sure that ATI will put HD5870 at $375 approx and HD5850 at $275-$300

[muzux2]

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^ hexus review along with it168.com pulled down, card is still under NDA.. i saw some benchs, GTX 480 clearly seems to be ~ 15% better over HD5870..

[asingh]

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That Hexus link is not opening. Is it a proper review, or speculated graphs and text.

Okay, its pulled down.

[muzux2]

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copy of Hexus benchs…

ForumBase - Einzelnen Beitrag anzeigen - ATi HD5800 und nVidia GTX400 (DX11 Gerüchteküche)

[desiibond]

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It is a proper review showing benchmarks done in-house.

[Shripad]

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hexus didnt rate it highly though. In fact they gave it poor rating score and not ideal conclusion

Score 3/5.

[psyph3r]

need to save now for a 5850, looking forward to some price drops in the next 2 mnths.

[desiibond]

yeah. it is a fast card but the problem is the number of delays and possible price cuts from AMD. By the time the whole range of Fermi based cards come out, ATI would be moving on to next gen or better architecture leaving nVidia in cold waters.

[Shripad]

@desiibond

yeah. it is a fast card but the problem is the number of delays and possible price cuts from AMD. By the time the whole range of Fermi based cards come out, ATI would be moving on to next gen or better architecture leaving nVidia in cold waters.

No price cuts coming from ATI.
They dont need to, and they have said they wont

[stalker]

Ultra hilare thread of TPU members waiting for NDA to end

The GTX 480/470 performance thread - techPowerUp! Forums

[hatter]

Guru 3D review is up

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-470-480-review/

[stalker]

AT up

AnandTech Forums: Technology, Hardware, Software, and Deals

To wrap things up, let’s start with the obvious: NVIDIA has reclaimed their crown – they have the fastest single-GPU card. The GTX 480 is between 10 and 15% faster than the Radeon 5870 depending on the resolution, giving it a comfortable lead over AMD’s best single-GPU card.

Meanwhile let’s talk about the other factors: price, power, and noise. At $500 the GTX 480 is the world’s fastest single-GPU card, but it’s not a value proposition. The price gap between it and the Radeon 5870 is well above the current performance gap, but this has always been true about the high-end. Bigger than price though is the tradeoff for going with the GTX 480 and its much bigger GPU – it’s hotter, it’s noisier, and it’s more power hungry, all for 10-15% more performance. If you need the fastest thing you can get then the choice is clear, otherwise you’ll have some thinking to decide what you want and what you’re willing to live with in return.

Hexus up

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 finally unleashed. Reviewed and rated.

The GeForce GTX 480 chip can’t be manufactured in any real volume with the full 512 cores intact, meaning that it loses a stream-processing unit composed of 32 cores. Ramping up clocks on a 3bn-transistor GPU manufactured on a 40nm process is also difficult without running into fundamental thermal concerns, hence why GTX 480 isn’t clocked especially high, and the card chews through watts with gay abandon.

Conjecturing somewhat, GeForce GTX 480 is probably 75 per cent of the high-end GPU that was imagined by NVIDIA early last year. Our numbers show that NVIDIA’s finest single-GPU card is, on average, around 20 per cent faster than AMD’s Radeon HD 5870 1,024MB at a 2,560x1,600 resolution. GeForce GTX 480 is due to cost some 40 per cent more, so whilst the trade-off between extra expense and performance isn’t ideal, it’s not shockingly bad, either.

How does it play out for the gamer right now? Radeon HD 5970 remains the world’s fastest graphics card, GeForce GTX 480 becomes the world’s fastest single-GPU card, and Radeon HD 5870 is still a good bet at sub-£300.

Bottom line: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 could have easily been better, perhaps should have been considering the time of arrival, but we feel that, underscored and handicapped by a paradigm shift in GPU thinking, it retains enough features and visceral ooh la la to be worthy of a £400 price-tag, if not £450.

TPU up

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Fermi Review

Value

• According to NVIDIA the suggested retail price of the GeForce GTX 480 is USD 499. Whether this will hold up in the market we will see and depends on supply and demand.

Pros

* Fastest single GPU card to-date

* DirectX 11 support

* Substantial performance improvements in DirectX 11

* GDDR5 memory

* Software voltage control seems possible

* Native HDMI output

* Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround

* Support for CUDA, PhysX and 3D Vision

* Improvements to integrated HDMI audio device

Cons

* High power draw

* Noisy cooler

* High temperatures

* Fairly high price

* Paper launch

* High temperatures and power draw makes SLI and triple SLI difficult

* Limited availability

* Only 480 shaders

* DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while

No one seems to have oc’ed em significantly.
TPU has a cursory glance without going in to too much detail.
Hilbert has a 13-14% improvement.

Theo had mentioned that the 480 has around 50-60w of headroom to play with.
AT is getting HAMMERED

[hellgate]

I’ll be getting a GTX 470 or a 480.
Just w8ing to see if PII X6 perfs better than i7 930.

[Lord_Nemesis]

More reviews

GTX 480 Launch Review - Page 1 - Fermi.. ? Ahoy!

Introduction - NVIDIA Fermi - GTX 470 - GTX 480 - GTX 480 SLI Review | [H]ard|OCP

[jc36lect3r]

Here’s the review from Tom’s

GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards! : The Way It?s Meant To Be Played?

The 470 can’t beat the 5850, and the 480 falls behind the 5970.

So much for the people who were expecting price cuts from ATi..

Looks like the 5850 was a good investment after all

[muzux2]

Hothardware has extreme Test setup..295 SLI, HD5970 CF, HD5870 OC included in review..
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: GF100 Has Landed - HotHardware