GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[annihilat0r]

Sorry for the irrelevance but I need to ask you guys something. I got a really cheap 480 deal from Ebay, but I'm not sure if my PSU is able to handle GTX 480.

It's a FSP Epsilon 80plus 700W and has 4 12V rails of 18amps each, do you think that will be enough ?

[bamtan2]

does this look like the tech support forum to you

your psu has a max amps at 12V rating, different from what you just said. if the max number accommodates what the video card and the rest of your system needs at max (maybe 30), you can use it.

the manufacturer of the card you just bought tells you as much. for instance:

Requirements
Minimum of a 550 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 38 Amps.)

[onethreehill]

ASUS GeForce GTX 470 ENGTX470 Review
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1287/1/

[annihilat0r]

does this look like the tech support forum to you

your psu has a max amps at 12V rating, different from what you just said. if the max number accommodates what the video card and the rest of your system needs at max (maybe 30), you can use it.

the manufacturer of the card you just bought tells you as much. for instance:

Requirements
Minimum of a 550 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 38 Amps.)

yep, sorry. I had to bid quickly to get the deal and I was looking for a quick answer. the mods can delete these posts if they wish

[trinibwoy]

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/g...itt_einleitung

Nice roundup of DX11 SDK tests.

[DosDuoNo]

some before and after temps 2 hours gaming with crysis wars, with EK waterblock, something i just noticed was the idle clocks... core 50.5 Mhz? memory 67.5 Mhz?

nice to save some power this is on 197.44 drivers

[onethreehill]

MSI GTX 480 vs XFX HD 5870 XXX in 22 Benchmarks
http://www.techsweden.org/recension/...cken-benchmar/
Translated
http://translate.googleusercontent.c...8AK1yJT9QM-w#6

[japamd]

some before and after temps 2 hours gaming with crysis wars, with EK waterblock, something i just noticed was the idle clocks... core 50.5 Mhz? memory 67.5 Mhz?

nice to save some power this is on 197.44 drivers

Do you mind to post the max temperature instead of current temperature just after quitting the game?

At least here temperatures drops real fast after exiting a game, not sure if that's the case with GTX 400 series.

[Monstru]

Oh boy, it has been a month allready since Fermi launched? Well then, time to unveil our GIGABYTE GTX 470 review

[onethreehill]

Asus ENGTX-470 Voltage Tweak Edition
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1852

[RSC]

Asus ENGTX-470 Voltage Tweak Edition
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1852

[onethreehill]

GeForce GTX 480 2 and 3 way SLI performance scaling
We look at single card performance, dual-card performance and also triple (3-way) SLI performance to see how well these puppies will scale. The article will first cover SLI performance among the new GTX 480 in several configurations and games, and then we'll check a little 2-way Multi-GPU gaming in a handsome multi-GPU slaughter-fest article in the ATI versus NVIDIA kind of way to see who and what scales the best.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...ay-sli-review/

[onethreehill]

ASUS GeForce GTX 480
http://www.pureoverclock.com/article968.html

[annihilat0r]

Wow, the GTX 470 sells for $330 and the 480 for $470 here in Turkey

[onethreehill]

4-way SLI GeForce GTX 480 Test
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/artic...GTX_480_test/1

[japamd]

wow, the gtx 470 sells for $330 and the 480 for $470 here in turkey

470 usd?

[annihilat0r]

yep.

[p2501]

yep.

Any linkage? Do they ship EU-wide?!

[annihilat0r]

Nope they don't. Unfortunately the prices rose to $345 and 489 respectively the whole day those prices fluctuated, I don't know what the hell, but I called the store to see if the numbers were correct and they said yes, and they had the cards in stock.

[p2501]

Damnit. Cheapest you can get a card here is for around 520€ from retailers that actually have some cards in stock...

Thanks anyway.

[OliverM84]

My personal review:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/community...3-post168.html


POV GTX 480
3D Mark Vantage Performance und Unigine Heaven 2.0 @ 960/1921/2225 1.200v



Under water ...

Full review

Olli

[onethreehill]

Gigabyte GTX 480 and GTX 470: DirectX 11 Battlefield
After several delays the new generation of powerful Nvidia graphics cards has finally seen the light of day and now the graphics giants can finally compete on equal terms. Let’s find out how good the praised Fermi architecture really is with the help of GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 based products from Gigabyte.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...gf-gtx400.html

[m0da]

4-way SLI GeForce GTX 480 Test
http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/artic...GTX_480_test/1

It's loud. How loud you ask?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V13ZGIZgYY

[tajoh111]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...gf-gtx400.html

Man that review is weird. The charts and results are extremely in favour of the gtx 480, however the writing seems like its trying to say the opposite.

"The GeForce GTX 480 is indeed the fastest single-GPU graphics card, being an average 28-33% faster than the ex-leader Radeon HD 5870. In some games, the GF100 GPU enjoys a 50% and larger advantage over the RV870. However, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 comes from a higher price category, so the difference in performance should not be wondered at."

I think the 100 dollar price difference is well worth it if we ignore power, since your getting more than a 25% performance improvement on average meaning the gtx 480 is greater bang for your buck, if just barely.

"If we don’t separate gaming graphics cards into single- and multi-GPU ones, the Radeon HD 5970 still remains the king of the hill. The GeForce GTX 480 cannot match it, especially at 2560x1600. Here are the numbers: the GeForce GTX 480 is an average 3% slower at 1600x900, 9% slower at 1920x1080 and as much as 22% slower at 2560x1600."

It strange they don't make the same price comparison with the 5970 really. When you consider most people game on 1920*1080 monitors and the 9% sacrifice seems pretty small when you consider you save a hundred dollars(more so because even they admit the 5870 cost more than 599) and you don't need to deal with dual card problems.

It looks like the gtx 480 is the best card in that review in terms of bang for your buck and performance.

[Olivon]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...gf-gtx400.html

Yeah right tajoh111, Fermi's performance are quite impressive on this one