GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[Dainas]

Best. Review. Ever.

Well done xbitlabs! The first of a kind for gtx480s.

Metro on nvidia = fail.

To be fair, its because Metro=Fail. Atleast in its graphics engine.

[onethreehill]

HD 5870 Crossfire CPU Scaling Performance Part II
http://www.legionhardware.com/articl..._part_2,1.html

[onethreehill]

GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?
Soon after EVGA laid its hands on stocks of GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards, it claims from an internal test that 4-way SLI is possible on the reference design GTX 480 graphics cards. The GTX 480 was advertised to work with up to two more of its kind in 3-way SLI, in NVIDIA's presentations to the press. EVGA's feat of running four GTX 480 cards was possible on its X58 Classified 4-way SLI motherboard, which has room for four graphics cards, and a special SLI bridge that connects to four NVIDIA graphics cards with two SLI interconnect bridges each. EVGA released a special-edition GeForce GTX 285 4-way SLI ready graphics card to go with the motherboard.

The EVGA X58 Classified 4-way SLI isn't the only motherboard to support 4-way SLI, the recently released EVGA Classified SR2 also ships with the special SLI bridge. No other motherboard vendor released a 4-way bridge, yet. EVGA demonstrated the 4-way SLI setup with a run of Unigine Heaven, although it did not give away any performance numbers.......

http://www.techpowerup.com/119615/Ge...-way_SLI_.html

[Helloworld_98]

http://www.techpowerup.com/119615/Ge...-way_SLI_.html

I'm surprised they didn't use their watercooled ones

[Manicdan]

so if a 480 is good for 3xSLI, how does 4x work? is the motherboard making a software link?

[Helloworld_98]

so if a 480 is good for 3xSLI, how does 4x work? is the motherboard making a software link?

the classified has some nvidia rebranded (somehow) magic included in the NF200

[onethreehill]

NVIDIA GTX 480 SLI Review
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...e_GTX_480_SLI/

[fiskov]

Others who might be mainly interested in this card for Flight Simulator X (FSX) like myself.

FSX comment

A user here comments:

"I cant say for the 480 but I installed my 470 last night. I played a few hours of FSX with it and I like it very much. I've seen a much better difference going from the GTX275 to the GTX470 than when I went from a 8800GT to the GTX275. No huge increase in framerate, (I would say about 10% above the GTX275) but much smoother without any stuttering. Need to do lots more testing tough".

It's sounding very promising, soon as i get my 480 i'll give some feedback of my own.

[onethreehill]

GTX 470 SLI Review
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...li-review.html

[stinkas]

^^^
Maybe just me, but that smelt a bit like badly disguised Nv damage control...

[Trigger5521]

^^^
Maybe just me, but that smelt a bit like badly disguised Nv damage control...

Have to agree.

One has to believe that with 6 months of driver development time the picture could be completely different. Min framerates seems to be the only shining light.

[SKYMTL]

^^^
Maybe just me, but that smelt a bit like badly disguised Nv damage control...

I must have missed something then.....

However, the facts are quite clear: in general, ATI’s cards offer better multi GPU scaling than anything NVIDIA can currently offer.

ATI threw a live hand grenade into the SLI party by posting performance increases that were simply jaw-dropping in nearly every respect.

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen so as it stands we feel that spending $700 for two GTX 470 cards is a hard sell when you can buy a similarly performing solution from ATI for more than $100 less.

It is quite evident that while the GTX 470 is a clear winner against a single HD 5850, SLI is currently struggling to mirror the downright amazing scaling that Crossfire offers.

but the HD 5850 in Crossfire is simply too close for comfort in most cases.

[trinibwoy]

I was wondering wtf these guys are talking about. They obviously didn't read the article.

[flippin_waffles]

Nvm, that doesn't make any sense.

[onethreehill]

GTX 480 (825/1100 MHZ) vs. HD 5870 (975/1300 MHz), Overclocked Performance Analysis, Part 2
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=16997

[eric66]

Have to agree.

One has to believe that with 6 months of driver development time the picture could be completely different. Min framerates seems to be the only shining light.

article is huge bogus first nvidias sli scaling is bad next min is more important so we should actually consider 470 sli then power cons kicks in and again we are back to 5850

[SKYMTL]

article is huge bogus first nvidias sli scaling is bad next min is more important so we should actually consider 470 sli then power cons kicks in and again we are back to 5850

As stated:

ATI's scaling is excellent in the AVERAGE framerates. NVIDIA's scaling is merely OK for average framerates.

ATI's scaling isn't that great for MINIMUM framerates. Yes, the overall scaling graph makes it look amazing but that's because of some incredible scaling in Far Cry 2 and BF:BC2. Other games are merely so so or take a minimum framerate hit when going to Crossfire. NVIDIA's scaling is quite good for minimums but the vast majority of its lead here is due to the GTX 470's single card minimum framerate lead.


There are always pros and cons to every product. Simple as that.

[annihilat0r]

article is huge bogus first nvidias sli scaling is bad next min is more important so we should actually consider 470 sli then power cons kicks in and again we are back to 5850

I don't want to have to dissect partitions of your posts to understand them every time. How about using some punctuation marks?

[trinibwoy]

article is huge bogus first nvidias sli scaling is bad next min is more important so we should actually consider 470 sli then power cons kicks in and again we are back to 5850

Fortunately, humans have well developed brains that are capable of sorting out the various nuances. It doesn't need to be black and white.

[onethreehill]

A note on GeForce GTX 480 noise levels

Now that GeForce GTX 400-series graphics cards are out in the wild, although in limited numbers, I should say something quickly about the main issues for which these cards, and especially the GTX 480, have gained a reputation: power, noise, and heat. I talked about this some on the latest podcast, but I don't think I communicated it all that well in the context of our GeForce GTX 480 and 470 review.

I feel like the GTX 480 is getting a bit of a bad rap.......

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18774

[stinkas]

^^^
Now that's how PR damage control is supposed to be done.

Has Nvidia fixed the power/heat issue with dual monitors yet? >90C at idle is a no go for me...

[japamd]

As stated:

ATI's scaling is excellent in the AVERAGE framerates. NVIDIA's scaling is merely OK for average framerates.

ATI's scaling isn't that great for MINIMUM framerates. Yes, the overall scaling graph makes it look amazing but that's because of some incredible scaling in Far Cry 2 and BF:BC2. Other games are merely so so or take a minimum framerate hit when going to Crossfire. NVIDIA's scaling is quite good for minimums but the vast majority of its lead here is due to the GTX 470's single card minimum framerate lead.


There are always pros and cons to every product. Simple as that.

Great review! But how can a HD 5970 perform worse than the 5850 CFX? Like this and this

Oh, as you've benched using FRAPS, maybe you could post some charts showing framerate fluctuation among cards tested during tests, mainly the GTX 470 SLI and HD 5850 CFX. That would be great!

Off-topic: Not big deal but I'm think there's a typo in Test System & Setup

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate N x64 SP1

[tajoh111]

Great review! But how can a HD 5970 perform worse than the 5850 CFX? Like this and this

Oh, as you've benched using FRAPS, maybe you could post some charts showing framerate fluctuation among cards tested during tests, mainly the GTX 470 SLI and HD 5850 CFX. That would be great!

Off-topic: Not big deal but I'm think there's a typo in Test System & Setup

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate N x64 SP1

For the most part, most reviews point to 5850CF being slightly faster than the 5970.

[eric66]

For the most part, most reviews point to 5850CF being slightly faster than the 5970.

lol wut

[Zloyd]

Epic ATI crossfire scaling