NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?

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.