It finally happened. NVIDIA eventually lifted the curtain on the long overdue GF100 based GeForce series of graphics cards. After numerous delays, the graphics card has shown up in more or less the configuration that had been rumoured nearly half a year ago. Despite the wishes of some polarizing write-ups online, the graphics cards had better availability at launch than what the competition (ATI) offered in November of 2009.
With that said, the NVIDIA GTX400 series is actually five months later than what consumers would have wanted, and with five months to make up for, the question remained, “was the wait worth it?” The answer to such a question is not as clear cut as some may want it to be. Regardless of where you stand, it is obvious to everyone that the GTX480 is indeed the single fastest GPU we have seen to date. While it isn’t the fastest graphics card on the market, as that honour belongs to the competition’s Radeon HD5970 graphics card, being able to claim the fastest GPU ever produced is very important to NVIDIA. So much so that the company poured a ridiculous number of gates into a core that is physically smaller than that of 2006’s G80 but far denser and more powerful per square mm. How many gates the GF100 houses exactly will remain within the walls of NVIDIA, but the number they are willing to publicly disclose about the GF100 core is 3.2 billion gates. That makes it the densest processing unit that you can buy in any consumer level CPU or GPU. In fact, that makes it more than twice the size of the already large GT200 core (1.4 billion) by a good 400 million gates, which means you can fit a single 7800 GTX core in there and still have gates left over, or you could almost build a complete G80 GPU using the left over t...
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...ort comings, it’s still a graphics card worth owning, especially if you want to play the latest games with the most advanced settings enabled. The GTX480 is an excellent graphics card that delivers the ultimate performance and is certainly worth the investment.
Reviewer: Neo Sibeko
Benchmark results
Heaven Benchmark 2.1: 1341
3DMark Vantage: P17270
3DMark06: 22233
Crysis Warhead 1920x1080: 68.77
Resident Evil 5 1920x1080 4xAA: 100.7 fps
Award: Hardware
Score: 8/10
Bottom line: It may have been late but NVIDIA has does it again by producing not only the largest but fastest GPU ever.
Plus:
Fast, very fast
CUDA
3D-Vision Surround
4-Way SLI
Minus:
Heat
Very heavy power draw
Specs:
Core: 700MHz GF100 (40nm)
Processors: 480
Render Outputs: 40
Memory: 1,536MB GDDR5 (3,996MHz) 177GB/sec
API: DirectX11/OpenGL3.x, OpenCL 1.0, CUDA,PhysX
Overall, this CPU presents even greater value for the power user than the Phenom II X4 did. Not only is it faster, it runs cooler, has Turbo Core technology, is highly overclockable and has an incredible price. There isn’t much more a CPU can be for the price and we couldn’t have asked for much more. If there was ever a time to truly go the AMD route for power users and overdclockers, this would be it, as AMD has managed to produce their best work since the advent of the Athlon64.
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