NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2010 7:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Mass Effect 2
Electronic Arts’ recently released space-faring RPG is our new Unreal Engine 3 game. While it doesn’t have a built in benchmark, it does let us force anti-aliasing through driver control panels, giving us a better idea of UE3’s performance at higher quality settings. Since we can’t use a recording/benchmark in ME2, we use FRAPS to record a short run.
ME2 is another victory for NVIDIA, albeit the smallest one we’ve yet to see. Here the GTX 480 is 4-11% ahead, while the 5850 and GTX 470 are tangled among each other the entire way. Meanwhile we once again see what little performance gap exists between the GTX 480 and 5870 dissipate as we increase the resolution.
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cmdrdredd - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
Get a sound card fr audiomcnabney - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - link
A sound card that will provide Bitstream HD audio will require another $200+, so that tacks on an even higher net-price for Nvidia.All of AMD's 5XXX cards give you real HD audio for free.
Hauk - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
An excellent article Ryan. I loved seeing Ujesh's response recaptured like that, so fitting for this epic fail. Well crafted review though..just4U - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
I agree an excellent article overall. I wonder if Amd will move and try and get price drops in play on their cards now. Afterall they are still selling far above their suggested sales price.formulav8 - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
Man the site is getting hammered.I wonder how many dissapointed compared to happy people there is going to be? :)
Jason
xsilver - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
the site is moving as fast as nvidia is moving cards ;)MrSpadge - Friday, March 26, 2010 - link
"Peak 64-bit FP execution rate is now 1/2 of 32-bit FP, it used to be 1/8 (AMD's is 1/5)."AMDs is 2/5, not 1/5. Otherwise.. still reading ;)
MrSpadge - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - link
It's still there (page 3).MrSpadge - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - link
It's still there (page 3).MrSpadge - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - link
It's still there (page 3).