Testseek.com have collected 140 expert reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe.
March 2010
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The editors liked
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
By all accounts the GeForce GTX 480 is not the beast we were hoping it would be. It's main competitor, the Radeon HD 5870 is no slouch, so beating it in almost every test is a real accomplishment, however in many cases it wasn't a great deal faster wh...
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...
Consumes 52W at idle and 370W under full load, Extremely hot under normal operation, Very expensive premiumlevel product, Cooling fan is audible under load
NVIDIA is back on top again, right where most gamers like to see them. Pros: + Fastest single-unit DX11 graphics accelerator available+ Best price-to-performance cost ratio+ GF100 Introduces Error Correcting Code (ECC)+ Outstanding performance for ul...
Abstract: Thanks to the modular, scalable design of PCI-Express, consisting of independent data-paths called 'lanes', motherboard designers can control a limited PCI-Express lane budget, and offer multiple PCI-Express x16 slots. In mid-range motherboards, and p...
As I was putting this story together, I asked senior editor Thomas Soderstrom what he wanted to know about GeForce GTX 480 and 470. He said, “price, performance, and power.” Reasonable enough. I’ll break it down similarly simply....
NVIDIA had a bit of a troubled launch with delays to their chip pushing this card back into March causing the market to have one DirectX 11 solution from ATI. The decision to release a card with fewer cores than originally planned must have been a diff...
Published: 2010-03-26, Author: Ken , review by: legitreviews.com
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 was known to be hot and fast before it came out and that is exactly what it turned out as being. If you like this article, be sure to ! ...
My thoughts going into this review were nothing but skeptical. Would NVIDIA actually be able to make a product after all the delays and rumored production problems that was worth considering? The answer was a surprising 'yes' as the GeForce GTX...
Relatively Fast, DirectX 11 Support, PhysX + CUDA Support, Great SLI Scaling
High Power Consumption, Hot and Can Be Loud, Late To Market, Only Slightly Faster Than 5870, For Much More Money
The GeForce GTX 480's performance lead over the Radeon HD 5870 increase when paired up in a dual-GPU SLI configuration. With their current drivers, NVIDIA-power cards offered better performance scaling in multi-GPU configurations, which resulted in larger...
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
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
The first comparable thing to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 that comes to the mind are the powerful yet gas-guzzling SUVs that are used for cross-country drives with heavy loads, comfortably. Often stereotyped with fuel-inefficiency, those vehicles don't...
Ultra High Performance, Redesigned Core, 3DSurround/Surround, Handles AA/AF like it's not there, Stable Drivers (
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Well we are afraid time beat us this round. We have other content we would like to post but it will have to take the form of a tack on to the review. Still left untouched due to time constraints, StoneGiant DX11 Benchmark, 3D Surround and 3DVision Sur...
