News - This evening's entertainment: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

[mercyground]

Go Team Green!

Wait. Rollo is back?

and tbh. its a moot point. its very late, hot, expensive, and PR'd to death.

nFinity is copying ATI but REQUIRES two cards. (handy that eh?)
3D is... just meh tbh. 120hz monitors and glasses required. Give it a few years and maybe 3D might be ok. Its a gimmik for now.

What i would like is to know where NV are going to take Fermi's successor. That and praying that Engineers make the card work. A process shrink and getting a handle on that TDP is a must.

[jim]

86 fps

[Percy1983]

Personnally they have missed the boat, I bought a 5850 as it offers amazing value and get a feeling that it was the right choice. Yes the green team may take the best card crown but I don't think they will win best value which is what I went for.

[kalniel]

All the cards have stock-clocked GPUs. So would you still like to see a pre-overclocked 2GB HD 5870 in there?

Wouldn't like to see the overclock, you're right, but just interesting to tease out the framebuffer effects. Could easily fit in another article though.

[matty-hodgson]

Testing both cards using the drivers at launch? If so, goodbye ATI! Your cards were pathetic at launch.

[scaryjim]

Hmmm... assuming the rumours are true, the GTX480 has the same number of shaders as a GTX295, but clocked ~ 15% higher, and it also has *effectively* (due to the internal SLI nature of the GTX295) ~ 70% more memory and ~ 50% more bandwidth. So I'd say we can expect to see *at least* 15% better performance than the GTX295, perhaps more. 15% would give it about 103fps, so I'm going to man up and go for a stonking 106.7fps - good, but not quite enough to dethrone the 5970

[kalniel]

Hmmm... assuming the rumours are true, the GTX480 has the same number of shaders as a GTX295, but clocked ~ 15% higher, and it also has *effectively* (due to the internal SLI nature of the GTX295) ~ 70% more memory and ~ 50% more bandwidth. So I'd say we can expect to see *at least* 15% better performance than the GTX295, perhaps more. 15% would give it about 103fps, so I'm going to man up and go for a stonking 106.7fps - good, but not quite enough to dethrone the 5970

gee if you're going to do it properly I detect distinct line wobble up to about 117fps. Which would be a frankly very odd result, but hey, we'll see if it fits with other sites

[j.o.s.h.1408]

What other games are you testing hexus?

i hope they test battlefield

[kalniel]

i hope they test battlefield

Thread. Read.

[Tarinder]

All I can say is that it's oddly quick in DiRT 2 DX9.

[circuitmonkey]

I'm going for 88fps

[GaryRW]

All I can say is that it's oddly quick in DiRT 2 DX9.

Surely not???? You mean an Nvidia card is oddly quick in one of the 2 games that Nvidia chose to release (leak?) benchmarks for? Surely you wouldn't suggest that they selectively chose the game just to show their card in a better light?

Edit - just realised before posting that the leaked/in house benchmarks say they are for Dirt 2 but DX11, not DX9. Guess we'll see later whether that's a relevant distinction or not.

[scaryjim]

All I can say is that it's oddly quick in DiRT 2 DX9.

Because obviously everyone who buys this card and DiRT 2 will be running the DX9 codepath...

Or will it be hard-coded in the drivers to only run DiRT 2 in DX9

to be fair, the performance on the card is really neither here nor there to me given that I'm still running a 17" CRT, and when I do upgrade monitor it probably won't be to anything past 1680 x 1050. I'm far more interested to see how they've managed to cope with the power and heat problems, and how much it's going to cost...

[matty-hodgson]

Well wasn't DiRT2 designed to be fast on ATI cards? There's ATI liveries in the game and it was released alongside the DX11 ATI launch..

[scaryjim]

According to the website, it does indeed have ATi developer support. That said, nvidia have had six months to pimp their drivers for it, so it's not necessarily surprising that they've managed to find some performance. Plus it's also not inconceivable that the ATI Dev support did a bad jobtm and it just doesn't run well on their hardware

How Fermi can handle DX11 is going to be a bigger test than how it manages DX9, tbh...

[mercyground]

All I can say is that it's oddly quick in DiRT 2 DX9.

so... we waited ages for the Green teams Dx11 card... and its fast in dx9... Welp.

/me shakes head.