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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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
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