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March 2010
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Priced to compete wth ATI 5870
1.5GB GDDR5 Memory
Advanced Tessellation with Raster and PolyMorph Engines
PhysX
CUDA
3D Vision
Most Powerful GPU on the Market
High-Resolution Gaming with PhysX
Support for more DirectX 11 features than the competition
Black Chrome Heatsink
3D Vision Gaming across 3 Monitors
Surround Gaming up to 3 Monitors
3D gaming at 1080p
Fast performance. Supports DirectX 11. Enables 3D Vision Surround with appropriate hardware.
Fastest singleunit DX11 graphics accelerator available
Best pricetoperformance cost ratio
GF100 Introduces Error Correcting Code (ECC)
Outstanding performance for ultra highend games
Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case
Includes native HD...
Breathtaking visual effects rendering thanks to Fermi and DirectX 11 technology
Relatively Fast
DirectX 11 Support
PhysX + CUDA Support
Great SLI Scaling
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 Visio
Superb performance
Works with 3D Vision
Supports physics
Computation acceleration
Ultra High Performance
Redesigned Core
3DSurround/Surround
Handles AA/AF like it's not there
Stable Drivers (
The editors didn't like
UmptionHeat
Editors Choice
Gold
Huge power usage
Extremely hot
Higher price than the competition
Flagship product without the full 512 Cores
Needing a set of GTX 480/470 in SLI to use the Surround gaming options
Expensive. Power-hungry. Does not markedly outperform competing cards.
Consumes 52W at idle and 370W under full load
Extremely hot under normal operation
Very expensive premiumlevel product
Cooling fan is audible under load
Runs hotter and louder than the competition.
High Power Consumption
Hot and Can Be Loud
Late To Market
Only Slightly Faster Than 5870
For Much More Money
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
Blocks adjacent slot
Loud under load
Requires eight- and six-pin PCIe power connectors and robust power supply
Abstract: Nvidia’s long anticipated enthusiast graphics card, the GeForce GTX 480, has finally arrived at the DirectX 11 ball. ATI has been strutting its stuff since last September, but if Fermi makes a...
For over six months, NVIDIA has been trying to center as much attention as possible on its new architecture so as to queer AMD’s pitch with the Radeon HD 5000 series. Those in bad faith will also say that it was making all that noise so as to drown out...
What do we have half a year since the release of the Radeon HD 5870? Taking all the tests together (which is not exactly correct), the new GeForce GTX 480 is an average 5 to 15% faster than the Radeon HD 5870 depending on the specific test, quality mod...
Before drawing any conclusions we'll dot the i's on what has already gained momentum on the Web. As you may know, NVIDIA accused AMD of reducing image quality in Warhammer 40.000: Dawn Of War II by means of Catalyst AI for the sake of higher performan...
Abstract: Yesterday, we updated the video card BIOS of our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 reference graphics card to what we were told is the version that will be used on the GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards when they come out in just a couple weeks. The version that a...
Published: 2010-03-31, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
These two new GeForces draw more power, generate more heat and noise, and have higher price tags than the closest competing Radeons, but they're not substantially faster at running current games. For many, that will be the brutal bottom line on the GeF...
All things considered, there's a lot to like here. The Fermi architecture has a lot to offer, particularly where anti-aliasing or tessellation are concerned. The 5870 does have a considerable advantage over the nVidia GeForce GTX 480 in a number of pl...
NVIDIA's Fermi architecture has been brewing for a while, but from a consumer perspective, we've been waiting a long six months to see the results come to fruition. Has the wait been worth it? I have to say that no, it wasn't. It's not that GF100 or t...
Abstract: Six months have passed since the first DirectX 11 accelerator seeing the light of day. ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 was presented on 23rd September 2009. After its appearance and the graduate fading of the media appraisal of the new standards and models, all e...
Abstract: The downside of the Geforce GTX 480 is, without any doubt, the high power consumption: In idle mode it needs more than twice as much energy as the Radeon HD 5870/5850 and when running games it even reaches the level of the HD 5970. This leads to a high workload noise level: 6.7 Sone when gaming and extremely..
