Gigabyte GTX480 SOC Review
3D Mark Vantage and Unigine
Published: 22nd November 2010 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £350est |
3D Mark Vantage
As we saw when we reviewed the Lightning, its really two cards. When stock it's just cool and quiet, but once overclocked its an absolute beast. The Gigabyte in 3D Mark is between those two extremes being better out of the box but just a bit behind when overclocked. We still see some very gaudy numbers though.
Unigine Heaven
0x Anti-Aliasing
Again we can see the performance of the GTX480SOC in 'stock' configuration beating out the Lightning fairly easily. With the overclock applied things are tight between the two cards with the SOC just edging ahead. Considering that it's 35MHz slower than our Lightning overclock it's impressive indeed.
8x Anti-Aliasing
With more image quality the graphs get stretched but the results remain the same. Synthetically at least the SOC is ahead at stock and overclocked. Impressive performance indeed from Gigabyte.
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I hope they do a version of the gtx 580 quick of this wonder when we will see the first non ref gtx 580s anyway.
Wow it's a very nice job that Gigabyte has done. I'm wondering how their warranty and support will be for GPU's, if it's comparable to EVGA and they bring more non-reference cards like this well... They'll do really well! Comparing this card at stock the the reference card is quite impressive and the work Gigabyte put in, especially with technology that you can't pronounce 
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Originally Posted by Dewinte
Wow it's a very nice job that Gigabyte has done. I'm wondering how their warranty and support will be for GPU's, if it's comparable to EVGA and they bring more non-reference cards like this well... They'll do really well! Comparing this card at stock the the reference card is quite impressive and the work Gigabyte put in, especially with technology that you can't pronounce . |
Naked card = geek porno LOL 
Nice review matey
Nice review matey
How you managed to keep me occupied for thirty minutes I have no idea... As always, lovely jobly.
As always, lovely jobly.When i saw 30 minutes, i was like 
but once again really good. So many reviewers do a 3 minute video and spend time on the written review, nice to see a better balance.
but once again really good. So many reviewers do a 3 minute video and spend time on the written review, nice to see a better balance.Think the cooler is amazing would love to see it fitted on a 580 and the results that would produce
Good stuff man. Nice to see all of the left over 480 GPUs being put to use any way.
Amazing what can be done with them really.
Cheers as ever guys !
Amazing what can be done with them really.
Cheers as ever guys !
I'll tell ya... Gigabyte are awesome.
3 year warranty on motherbaords and graphics cards regardless of what the shop you buy them from say. Can just send direct to their repair centre in umm Milton Keynes I think. I send them a faulty B grade motherboard bought from OCUK that had one dead DIMM slot and as I didn't use the board for 28 days when I bought it, it was out of their B grade warranty period. I explained all this to Gigabyte and they happily accepted the RMA. I sent it to them on the Thursday and had a repaired motherboard back to me by Monday via courier. They also included a free bag which was nice.
Now with my Powercolor (1 year warranty) starting to die misserably, I will only buy either Gigabyte or Asus. Nothing else will get a look in unless exceptional.
Now time to read the review.
3 year warranty on motherbaords and graphics cards regardless of what the shop you buy them from say. Can just send direct to their repair centre in umm Milton Keynes I think. I send them a faulty B grade motherboard bought from OCUK that had one dead DIMM slot and as I didn't use the board for 28 days when I bought it, it was out of their B grade warranty period. I explained all this to Gigabyte and they happily accepted the RMA. I sent it to them on the Thursday and had a repaired motherboard back to me by Monday via courier. They also included a free bag which was nice.
Now with my Powercolor (1 year warranty) starting to die misserably, I will only buy either Gigabyte or Asus. Nothing else will get a look in unless exceptional.
Now time to read the review.
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Originally Posted by Dewinte
Wow it's a very nice job that Gigabyte has done. I'm wondering how their warranty and support will be for GPU's, if it's comparable to EVGA and they bring more non-reference cards like this well... They'll do really well! Comparing this card at stock the the reference card is quite impressive and the work Gigabyte put in, especially with technology that you can't pronounce . |
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I'll tell ya... Gigabyte are awesome. |
How long ago was that?
I've had to deal with them twice since they've had a UK repair centre and have had an excellent experience both times. Once for a motherboard and once for a graphics card.
I've had to deal with them twice since they've had a UK repair centre and have had an excellent experience both times. Once for a motherboard and once for a graphics card.
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Tell that to my mate who sent back a 9800GTX and then proceeded to wait for 6 months until they sent him a 250. |
He got his card back about six months ago.
Bit of a nightmare really.
Bit of a nightmare really.
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Originally Posted by Bungral
I'll tell ya... Gigabyte are awesome. 3 year warranty on motherbaords and graphics cards regardless of what the shop you buy them from say. Can just send direct to their repair centre in umm Milton Keynes I think. I send them a faulty B grade motherboard bought from OCUK that had one dead DIMM slot and as I didn't use the board for 28 days when I bought it, it was out of their B grade warranty period. I explained all this to Gigabyte and they happily accepted the RMA. I sent it to them on the Thursday and had a repaired motherboard back to me by Monday via courier. They also included a free bag which was nice. Now with my Powercolor (1 year warranty) starting to die misserably, I will only buy either Gigabyte or Asus. Nothing else will get a look in unless exceptional. Now time to read the review. |
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