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Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Reviews

Bjorn3D

06/2010

GTX-480 Thermal Study

When the Nvidia GTX-480 hit the shelves we saw a lot of sites reporting what we considered high temperatures on the GPU. A lot of those sites were relying on Furmark and chose not to game for hours on end in a variety of games and get thermal readings that way. We can understand the initial rush to publish because in reviewing it's publish now or suffer a loss of traffic on the review or article. We can't understand not going back and studying the thermal envelope of the GTX-480 after the initial reviews. So we fired up the GTX-480 and gamed for days on end (a dirty job but someone had to do it). Each game we ran we gamed for hours and hours then dropped out and took temperature readings. Each benchmark we used we ran multiple benchmarks back to back and dropped out and took readings. In all we spent 3 weeks gaming, taking thermal readings, and checking ambient temperatures to ensure continuity of testing. Sometimes you start into a review and it looks, on the surface, to be an easy one. Then later you realize that you just let yourself in for a few weeks of rigorous testing and easy left the room about the time you fired up the rig. This is one of those cases.

DigitalVersus

04/2010

8.0/10

Product Survey: Graphics Cards

The new generation of NVIDIA graphics cards is in! The GeForce GTX 480 1.5 GB is the first NVIDIA model with DirectX 11 compatibility. 3D performance, energy consumption, noise and heat levels: we cover them all in our analysis of the various strong and weak points of this long-anticipated card. Whether in terms of weight (930 grammes) or size (a little over 27cm), the GeForce GTX 480 is comparable to its direct rival, the Radeon HD 5870 from ATI. It has, of course, a double decker cooler and is partly in metal. NVIDIA warns users not to touch this part of the card as temperatures here can exceed 70°C ! This is definitely worth paying attention to as this card gets really hot. The graphics chip gets up to 93°C when loading 3D scenes. Make sure your casing is well ventilated to avoid overheating the system! The excessive noise levels should therefore be no surprise. In full load we took a reading of 61.9 dB(A), which is almost as much as the Radeon HD 5970, a double GPU card. Such noise levels truly are disturbing, especially for anyone in the same room while you're gaming. At idle, noise is more contained at 44.1 dB(A). This is far from being quiet but is acceptable and shouldn't annoy any but the most fussy.

TechRadar

03/2010

8.0/10

Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 review

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is indeed the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world. The air of relief is palpable as the great and the good of Nvidia gather beside this latest graphical opus in its downtown Paris office.The relief is not just our ours at having finally gotten hold of a working sample of the GeForce GTX 480, but representing the culmination of a lot of hard work, a lot of missed launch slots and a lot of rumour-mongering in the world's tech press.It's one hell of a relief for everyone at Nvidia associated with the GeForce brand.Also read: 10 best graphics cards in the world todayThe opening slide of the inevitable PowerPoint-a-thon is simply one word standing clear on a black background: finally.So yes, finally it is here. The GF100 GPU - known as Fermi - exists outside of the rumour mill and has its first derivative card; the GTX 480.GeForce 400-seriesThere will be others along very soon, most noticeably the cheaper GTX 470, but this graphical behemoth represents the top-end of Nvidia's Fermi launch. Originally pencilled in for a pre-Christmas debut, the DX11 riposte to AMD's HD 5xxx series of graphics cards has seen innumerable delays, sparking fears that something had gone badly wrong with Nvidia's brand new silicon.

Techgage

03/2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - GF100 Has Landed

The past six months have been rather difficult for both NVIDIA and consumer alike, as both sides have been eagerly awaiting the launch of the company's first GF100-based (Fermi) graphics cards. The long wait is over, though, and AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series finally has some competition. Given the extra time NVIDIA spent on GF100, can we expect that its latest releases can give the HD 5000 series a run for its money? The answer to that will of course be answered throughout the progression of this article. The first cards to be launched as part of the GF100 series are the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480. The latter comes in at $499, placing it $100 above the HD 5870. The GTX 470 is still considered a higher-end offering, but is more modestly priced at $349. Availability is expected to begin the week of April 12, with "tens of thousands" of cards being shipped out to retailers by then. The road to GF100 has of course been a rough one, with NVIDIA being hit with one issue after another. The biggest hit has been the fact that ATI beat the company to the punch by a full six months, something that no doubt drives some of the company's execs up the wall. Another rather significant issue has been yields, which by the looks of things, actually could still be an issue (something I'll talk about later).

TechSpot

03/2010

Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Review: Fermi Arrives

Two years later, Nvidia is finally ready to unveil a new piece of graphics silicon aimed at consumers and the enthusiast crowd based on its latest Fermi architecture. The GeForce GTX 280 was the company's last big launch that comprised of innovative technology, at the time rewriting the record books as the fastest single-GPU graphics card. Besides the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 that went on sale months later, anything after the GTX 280 has been a rehash of the same GT200b graphics core. Nvidia battled it out against the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, which had some good performers but was somewhat light on firepower. Long story short, last September ATI was already shipping brand new parts that were faster and more efficient, while Nvidia wasn't giving out any specific details on Fermi. These new Radeons became the first products to steal the performance crown away from Nvidia in a long time, and they did so in a very convincing fashion. The Radeon HD 5870 took its place as the new fastest single-GPU graphics card, even matching the mighty GeForce GTX 295 at a fraction of the price, meanwhile the Radeon HD 5850 rubbed shoulders with the GeForce GTX 285.

PCWorld

03/2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Is the GeForce GTX 480 fashionably late, or just plain late? ATI has been tooting the DirectX 11 horn for quite some time now, while their competitors labored on a rebuttal. At long last, Nvidia's first DirectX 11 graphics card is here -- and for better or worse, it's quite a beast. The card is based on Nvidia's new Fermi architecture. The feature-list is considerable: over 3 billion transistors, double the processing units of its predecessors (though ATI and Nvidia count these differently), and a strong emphasis on geometric realism. Nvidia's Fermi page is chocked full of information and demonstrations, and includes white papers detailing the strides they've made. Priced at $500, the GeForce GTX 480 is squarely aimed at . . . no competing product. The obvious target would be the reigning graphics card champ, ATI's Radeon HD 5870 -- but that card can generally be found for about $400. The 5870's bigger brother would be the next logical step, but that's a dual-GPU card, and it typically falls into the $700 range. As the GTX 480 is Nvidia's fastest single-card GPU, we opted to center our first look at the part around ATI's fastest single-card GPU, the Radeon HD 5870. To even the playing field a bit, we also took a look at MSI's R5870 Lightning -- a factory overclocked HD 5870 priced at $500.

HotHardware

03/2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: GF100 Has Landed

For better or worse, the launch of NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture codenamed Fermi, a.k.a. GF100, is one of the most highly anticipated in our industry, ever. Information about the GPU has been tricking out for many months now, some of it good and some bad. Regardless of what you have chosen to believe or ignore up to this point, one irrefutable fact remains. NVIDIA is extremely late to the DirectX-11 party. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Rival AMD has used the last few months to release a myriad of DX11-class cards ranging in price from under $100 to almost $700, fleshing out a top-to-bottom line-up that caters to virtually every market segment. Today NVIDIA is announcing two high-end cards, neither of which will be available for a couple of more weeks. So while this announcement is an important move for the company, NVIDIA would have liked to have made it sooner. C'est la vie.NVIDIA may be late with their DX11-class cards, but launching strong products that compete favorably at their respective price points may erase some lingering concerns about the company and restore faith in prospective consumers. To that end, we can finally show you what NVIDIA has in store for the hardcore gamers out there.

Bjorn3D

03/2010

9.5/10

Nvidia GTX-480 (Fermi, GF100)

We've all been waiting for Fermi for so long that when it finally came through the door, it was almost like a dream. With a newly redesigned core and 3.2 Billion transistors and 512 CUDA cores (480 exposed), the GTX-480 is one cutting edge powerful GPU you won't want to miss. The addition of DirectX capabilities and a GPU that can churn through Tessellation like no other. Nvidia upped the ante with Nvidia Surround and Nvidia 3D Surround, and now you can span a game or application across 3 screens. Nvidia's 3D vision has always been one of our favorite gaming methods and now you can game in 3D on three monitors. The 3D Surround (and regular Surround) will require 2 Nvidia GTX-2xx or GTX-4xx GPU's but with the GPU power required to span across three full sized monitors, we would highly recommend GF100 (Fermi) class GPU's. Did Nvidia stop at adding DirectX 11 and enough hardware to make Tessellation more feasible? No, Nvidia redesigned the cache setup, tossed some heat pipes on the GTX-480, and added C++ support for CUDA. The list of improvements to GF100 goes on and on. Nvidia took what they learned from the G90/G92 cores and applied it to GT200.

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EVGA GeForce GTX480 1536MB GDDR5 Dual DVI, HDMI, SLI Graphics Cards 015-P3-1480-KR	$219.99	See it
EVGA 015-P3-1480-KR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) Video Card - 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11	$229.99	See it
PNY XLR8 GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express HDMI Graphics Card VCGGTX480XPB	$599.99	See it