NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews Available
Here we are, the first reviews of NVIDIA’s new flagship cards, the GeForce GTX 480 and the GeForce GTX 470, are available. The list of reviews is available at the end of the post.
GeForce GTX 480 main features
- GPU: GF100 @ 700MHz / 3200 million transitors / 40nm
- Shader cores: 480 @ 1401MHz
- Memory: 1536MB GDDR5 @ 924MHz / 384-bit
- ROPS: 48
- Texture units: 60
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11
- GPU Computing: OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX, DirectCompute
GTX 480 PCI-Express power connectors: 6-pin + 8-pin
GeForce GTX 470 main features
- GPU: GF100 @ 607MHz / 40nm
- Shader cores: 448 @ 1215MHz
- Memory: 1280MB GDDR5 @ 837MHz / 320-bit
- ROPS: 40
- Texture units: 56
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11
- GPU Computing: OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX, DirectCompute
GTX 470 PCI-Express power connectors: 6-pin + 6-pin
Performances
GTX 480 – OpenGL performance: Quakewars
GTX 480 – Direct3D 10 performance: Far Cry 2
GTX 480 – Direct3D 11 performance: Unigine Heaven 2
Power consumption and temperatures
According to TPU tests, the power consumption of GTX 480 reaches 320 Watts (under FurMark) and the GPU temperature is around 96 degrees Celsius on typical gaming load. [H]ardOCP has also done power consumption tests with FurMark.
Loaded power consumption with FurMark 1.8.0 (source)
GTX 480 – GPU Temperature with FurMark – 96°C (source)
GTX 480 – Power consumption with FurMark – 330W (source)
Noise
[H]ardOCP has published some videos showing the GTX 480 tortured by FurMark: the VGA cooler can be very noisy! From Guru3D, the noise under loading is around 43dBA.
Power consumption with FurMark (source)
Conclusion
TPU:
The GeForce GTX 480 shines in nearly all games in our test bench, giving out the highest performance figures for a single-GPU graphics card. It especially performs well in some of the newest DirectX 11 generation tests, something worth discerning.
The GTX 480 is quite simply not a “Radeon HD 5870 Killer.” We don’t know if we were supposed to think it would be or not, but with the power consumption this beast requires, you would hope it would be providing a bit more performance than it is. We can’t say that any of the real world gameplay advantages blew us away compared to the experience of gaming on a Radeon HD 5870.
Even so, when we tally up the results out of all titles tested, the GeForce GTX 480 wins nearly everywhere except in Anno 1404 and ironically 3DMark Vantage. There are scenarios where the GTX 480 is very close to the 5870, but there are also scenarios where the GTX 480 completely and utterly kicks the Radeon HD 5870 in the proverbial nuts. When we focus solely on the GTX 480 now for a minute, substandard and topic of discussion obviously has to be the TDP — the card when stressed will utilize nearly 250 Watts and that certainly is pretty steep power consumption, especially compared to ATI’s Radeon 5870 with a TDP of only 188W. You are going to need a decently ventilated PC as the heat the GeForce GTX 480 produces is plentiful. Make no mistake, the card will get hot, very hot. So that’s definitely something you need to keep in the back of your head.
Yes, the GTX 480 offers great performance in our test games, especially in Dirt 2 and Bad Company 2, but compared to the competition, it doesn’t make a strong enough case for itself, especially when you consider that there are just so many caveats involved with buying this card. The higher price, the 100W of extra power consumption, scorchingly hot temperatures and a much noisier stock cooler are all extremely detrimental to its desirability. The HD 5870 remains a far better choice if you’re a gamer; while we’ve yet to see how the GTX 480 performs with CUDA apps and Folding, at this stage Fermi looks like a flop.
GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470 Reviews
- NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 finally unleashed. Reviewed and rated @ Hexus
- NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait? @ AnandTech
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Fermi @ TPU
- NVIDIA Fermi – GTX 470 – GTX 480 – GTX 480 SLI Review @ [H]
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GF100 DX11 Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 Review – GF100 and Fermi tackle gaming @ PC Persp
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1,536MB Review @ bit-tech.net
- GeForce GTX 470 and 480 review @ Guru3D
- GeForce GTX 480 review @ HardwareCanucks
- GeForce GTX 470 review @ HardwareCanucks
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Review: Fermi Arrives @ techSpot
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Aww Nvidia, you’ve been disappointing me.
I’ve been waiting for Fermi so long…
But I don’t like its power consumption and heat.
I think I’m going to use ATi until Nvidia making another breakthrough.
[...] tech-demos for the new GeForce GTX 480 (and GTX 470) are [...]
How could Nvidia do this?
Dudes, these cards are bad. Decent performance at great power,temperature and noise cost. Nothing good in that. Let’s hope the B1 revision fixes all that.
I think a revision will have a hard time fixing that. The general design of the fermi architecture is flawed. Too much focus on tessalation power. A huge chip design, that is expensive to produce and hard lower power usage of thus requires noisy cooling.
So, it’s 14 Watts more hungry than GTX280, double the performance – and people bitch about it? XD
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Just get whichever Radeon
I bet enthusiasts will get all the few 480s in stores for 3-way SLI, others for the 5x CUDA performance. Everyone else – stick with the more-than-necessary older cards ^^ . Buying anything higher-end right now, at the current uncompetitive rip-off prices is rarely sane imho
Hexus claims double-precision speed is crippled on desktop cards:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24000&page=3
[...] poor GTX 480… Promised, I will release a FurLessMark GTX 480 [...]
[...] to Hexus, the desktop version of the GF100 GPU, which powers the GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470, has a limited double precision speed. Indeed, the double precision speed is limited to 1/8 of [...]
[...] 1.6.0 brings the support of NVIDIA’s GTX 400. It’s interesting to notice that it’s no longer possible to adjust core and shader [...]
[...] to Hexus, the desktop version of the GF100 GPU, which powers the GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470, has a limited double precision speed. Indeed, the double precision speed is limited to 1/8 of [...]
[...] for more details on infrared / thermal imaging) we can easily see two very hot parts when of the GTX 480 is loaded: the GPU area and the VRM [...]
[...] the GeForce GTX 480 and have done some DX11 tessellation performance comparisons between the GeForce GTX 480 and the Radeon HD [...]
[...] Yes my friends, there is no longer danger to plug two monitors on a GeForce GTX 480! [...]
[...] internal test at EVGA shows that the GeForce GTX 480 supports the 4-way SLI. I can’t imagine the PSU required to run that test: with around 300W [...]
[...] has released a new set of WHQL graphics drivers with the official support of GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. This driver is limited to GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 only.. I modified the inf file to support my [...]
[...] watts is the power consumption of two GeForce GTX 480 under FurMark (res: [...]
[...] FluidMark is quick way to have a good overview of a graphics card PhysX performance in the domain of fluid simulation. The guys at extrahardware.cz have used FluidMark 1.1.1 for benchmarking a GeForce GTX 480: [...]
[...] card comes with a factory-overclocked GPU: – GPU core: 625MHz (ref=607MHz) – GPU processors: 1250MHz – Memory: 3348MHz [...]
[...] a GeForce GTX 470 from GALAXY. This card comes with a factory-overclocked GPU: – GPU core: 625MHz (ref=607MHz) – GPU processors: 1250MHz – Memory: 3348MHz (ref=3348MHz) And according to their tests with [...]
[...] has published two Direct3D 11 tech-demos for the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. Both demos (island and hair) are based on hardware tessellation, one the big feature of D3D11 / [...]
[...] will use the hardware tessellation, one of the big features of DX11 class graphics cards like GeForce GTX 400 series or Radeon HD 5000 [...]
[...] new version of GPU-Z is out. This version improves the support of GeForce GTX 480 with full voltage controller and real-time clock monitoring [...]
[...] Here is the detailed view of GPU-Shark with a GeForce GTX 480: [...]
[...] is presenting at Computex 2010 a prototype of a dual-GPU graphics card that includes a GTX 470 for graphics rendering and a GT 240 for processing [...]
[...] Galaxy loves dual-GPU graphics cards. After the dual GTX470+GT240, here is a dual GTX 470: two GF100 GPUs on the same [...]
[...] has published a small tool that makes it possible to patch a GeForce GTX 465 into a GeForce GTX 470. How is it possible ? Just by enabling three SMs (streaming multiprocessor). Because first versions [...]
[...] goes through the GPU. But watch out my friends, the GPU we are talking about, is the one behind the GeForce GTX 480. To reach 108A, the GPU is overclocked to 797MHz (the reference clock is 700MHz) with a VDDC (GPU [...]
[...] for a GTX 480 (GDDR5) with stock memory speed we have: – Real memory speed: 924MHz – Effective DDR memory speed: [...]
[...] GIGABYTE X58 A-UD5 – Windows 7 64-bit – Graphics drivers: R258.96 – Graphics cards: two GeForce GTX 480 (reference board + reference clocks). – Wattmeter – Idle power consumption of the system: 190 [...]
[...] has released a new 480-core GF100 based card: the N480GTX HydroGen. This GeForce is equiped with a large full copper waterblock that [...]
[...] Geeks3D《NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews Available》 [...]
[...] the world. The GPU, a GF100 with 480 cores, is factory overclocked at 810MHz (ref: 700MHz, see HERE for reference GTX 480) as well as the the memory with a clock speed of 950MHz (ref: 924MHz). The [...]