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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Wolfenstein
Finally among our revised benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage later this year.
The most distinguishing result in this benchmark is that it once again shows the Radeon and GeForce performance gap closing with resolution, with the GTX 480 going from a 15% lead to a fraction of a percentage loss by the time we reach 2560. The GTX 470 shares a similar story, however it ends up with a more definite loss by the end. Given the framerates we’re seeing at 1680, it’s likely that we’re CPU limited and are seeing driver overhead come in to play.
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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).