GTX 480

Technology and Gaming
#1

Who’s getting one?

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#2

i have 3 dollars is that enough?
(yes,my savings are in fact 3 dollars,6 brazilian reais)

#3

The 5970 is better and the 5870 is only marginally outpreformed by it and you save $100 with the 5870…sooooooo no.

#4

Was going to, but now they’re out i’m very glad i didn’t.

#5

I’ve had NVIDIA cards most of the time but this time I’m definitely voting for ATI/AMD.

#6

Mid March I purchased this 5870 for $370. I was originally going to wait until the nvidia launch to compare cards and make a purchase, but I got sick of waiting. IMO I definitely made the right choice. Paying more than $100 for a much nosier, only marginally better card is not wise. I am very pleased with my near silent 5870. Nvidia may have taken back the performance crown with their new card, but its too late and too expensive. Better luck next time!

Keep in mind however, we will not see the full utilization of Fermi until a GTX card is released.

#7

Nvidia still doesnt have the performance crown because the 5970 outperforms the GTX 480 by a long shot. Also the GTX 480 runs hotter than any card ive ever seen.

GTX 480

#8

5970 does outperform the GTX480, that is true. The only reason I didn’t mention it is because it is a dual gpu card. But yes, for a single card solution it does outperform the GTX480. The GTX480 is loud card, thats for sure. I never actually looked at the temp reports however, how hot does it get?

Any my apologies, I meant a later iteration…like a GTX490. Not all the functions are fully active on the current cards.

#9

over 90°C
I’ll try to get a HD5870 and I probably won’t buy a Nvidia card for a long time, because those are all more grill than gfx cards

#10

I want a 100°C card. Then I can make tea with it. :3

On the topic though, I’m not going to be buying a GTX 480.

#11

mine got to 120°C with the stock cooler
EDIT:
imagine you have two of them in SLI and wrap them up in aluminium foil, then you have an oven!

#12

You can make tea with the GTX480, it goes to 99C with that huge heatsink and fan attached, remove them and use the heat directly from the chip. But then you’d be wasting 300$ to make a cup of tea.

#13

It would be an awesome cup of tea though!

#14

I think he meant to say that it’s not running all the possible cores that Fermi was designed to run on. The GTX 480 only has 480 running cores out of 512

#15

It’s still an incredible let down after all the buzz over the past couple of years.

#16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSPqLKgnQs&feature=related

#17

I say yer’ a bunch of ATI fanboys. NVidia has always been the standard. NVidia is to ATI what PC’s are to Macs.

I’ll be interested to see how well the cards are optimized by the end of the series, when they come out with this generation’s equivelant to the insert number here800GT.

Hopefully this series will have a proper successor for my 8800GT for a proper upgrade. Might still be another year so the prices go down and the standard is heightened. Might be good to coincide with the release of Crysis 2…oh yeah, what are the requirements of THAT game going to be…?

EDIT: Also, review from a buyer on Newegg

#18

My first NVIDIA card had artifacts due to overheating (7900GT) and my second died after 6 months of use due to 90 C temperatures at 100% fanspeed (9800GX2).
Power sucking, overheating, microstuttering overpriced piece of shit.

I’m going ATI next time hurrr.

#19

but ATI drivers suck!
also I like the green color

#20

Sounds like the guy doing that review is a Nvidia fan boy. And the 480 never comes close to 5970, look at the benchmarks over at tomshardware.

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