GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[Dimitriman]

So what kind of minimum power supply are we looking at here for running the 470-480 on single and SLI modes?
I saw a review where gtx480 in SLI was making a system consumption of 710W on load :S

I think some people aren't grasping the fact that when they buy one they will need a new PSU, especially if they are thinking of SLI. I can see a lot of PSU's going down from ignoring this issue.

Still though GTX480 is faster than 5870 by some 20% which in my books is a success given all the problems they had. As long as everyone realizes that their investment in these chips will likely go beyond the 350$ price tag (PSU, extra case cooling) - then I don't see any Nvidia loyals backing down from this one.

PS: At Fermi's current price, if it stays this much, we will no doubt see 5870 price cuts and it probably will not take very long to happen.

[mmorpgfocus]

So.

I have just got a hexi-core 980 extreme edition with 12GB Ram and 256GB SSD with TRIM built in.

It seems that 2x GTX480 in SLI will be the fastest possible GPU.

From the reviews it seems that 5970 and even 5870 Xfire are stomped by 2x GTX480 in SLI.

[iTravis]

So.


From the reviews it seems that 5970 and even 5870 Xfire are stomped by 2x GTX480 in SLI.

We all know that Captain Obvious, not to mention price, heat, noise, and power consumption.

[xdan]

It think that most of reviewerss should have used an 6 core processor.
The difference betwen 5870 and Gtx 480 is 20-30%, and in some situation GTX 480 reach 5970.
Also in some situation G100 arhitecture is in deed 2x GT 200 With LN cooling without any voltage modification which is posible, but now there is any software, can reach 900MHZ core..
The consum is indeed very bad...I hope than in 1-2 month to lauch GTX 490( 512 SP). A better revision chips could shave 10W TDP...All in all these cards are decent ...not very good, not bad either ant the prices are good.
The best FERMI card will be the budget GTX 460...?
http://lab501.ro/placi-video/nvidia-...l-magnetism/22

[zerazax]

Noticed something interesting. Looking at the reviews posted, the most positive reviews for the GTX 4xx's were the ones that didn't review power consumption and noise. The ones that did, were far more muted in conclusion

The difference betwen 5870 and Gtx 480 is 20-30%, and in some situation GTX 480 reach 5970.

Outside of synthetics and a few games where either ATI isn't well optimized or SLI/CF doesn't scale well, the 480 never really reaches the 5970 at all.

And 20-30%? Where? HWC and AT all gave the 480 roughly a 13% average on performance over the 5870. One of the users on this forum collected the data from 8 different reviews and showed 8% with no AA, and 15% with AA at 1920 x 1200. All the reviews acknowledged that the gap between 5870 and 480 shrinks at 2560 x 1600.

Don't make up 20-30% here, that's not even close to being true

[ajaidev]

It think that most of reviewerss should have used an 6 core processor.
The difference betwen 5870 and Gtx 480 is 20-30%, and in some situation GTX 480 reach 5970.
Also in some situation G100 arhitecture is in deed 2x GT 200 With LN cooling without any voltage modification which is posible, but now there is any software, can reach 900MHZ core..
The consum is indeed very bad...I hope than in 1-2 month to lauch GTX 490( 512 SP). A better revision chips could shave 10W TDP...All in all these cards are decent ...not very good, not bad either ant the prices are good.
The best FERMI card will be the budget GTX 460...?
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Looking at this it seems that 5870 OCed is doing really well against the GTX480 stock and even to some extend the GTX480 OCed.

Now the 5870 2GB matrix is 900Mhz and will most likely be good to go against the stock GTX480 price will determine how well it sells.

[Helloworld_98]

Looking at this it seems that 5870 OCed is doing really well against the GTX480 stock and even to some extend the GTX480 OCed.

Now the 5870 2GB matrix is 900Mhz and will most likely be good to go against the stock GTX480 price will determine how well it sells.

but why would you get the matrix when sapphire has their 2GB vapor-x which is probably cheaper, has a well known to be good cooler and has a 25MHz clock advantage?