ZOTAC GTX480 Review
Warhead, MW2, Metro2033
Published: 15th April 2010 | Source: Zotac | Price: £441.76 |
Crysis Warhead
Given the reliance of Crysis Warhead on PhysX based cards, and how well it responds to them, it's no surprise at all to see the GTX480 eat it for breakfast, especially in the maximum frame-rate tests.
When it comes the important average FPS test it's all a lot closer, but with the overclocked ZOTAC 480 allowing us to put Vsync on and see the benefit it definitely takes home the laurels here.
Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2 suffers from the same issue that we had with Shift, namely it's a console based game as so is reliant on absolute power rather than the little tweaks that enable the two different architectures to find gains in other ways. Our results reflect this although none of our cards remotely flinch and almost beg for a higher detail setting.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is the latest all shiny shooter employing nearly every fancy effect you could ever hope to see. It certainly is a feast for the eyes.
It looks like this could be the DirectX 11 equivelant of the Crytek games, because none of our cards managed to give a huge framerate. The ZOTAC in its overclocked state provided a much smoother gameplay experience without the frame-drops the others experienced.
Shall we move on to the conclusion and wrap this up?
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by name='clone38'
Aye its a bit of a let down by NV this time as i was really looking forward to the new cards.
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I hope the next generation brings something better to the show, because these are too hot for what they give, and when a 5970 is only £50 more, they represent very poor value.
My 280ocx is dammed loud on air but having heard these I couldn't put up with the noise.
Coz i imagine if u would oc a nuclear-reactor u wouldnt think twice before u would oc the ATI cards
My 5970s overclock to 900MHz core very happily (haven't really pushed them much) so I reckon the 480s would have to fight pretty hard to keep up. Also, can you imagine SLI 480s overclocked...I mean hell would look like a fridge comparatively.
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Originally Posted by name='Diablo'
Also, can you imagine SLI 480s overclocked....
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Originally Posted by name='ppuff'
Judging by the color of the cooler it seems that NVIDIA can use it to light their own victory cigar.
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i will stick to my 5870 and rather buy me a second one than one of the 480th.
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Originally Posted by name='Diablo'
I mean hell would look like a fridge comparatively.
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The Fermis apparently scale OK, but not as well as the 5870s. The fermi's are fast, but I'd be a little bit worried aout sticking them in a case with my other kit. I mean its fine for them to run hot apparently, but my processor and RAID controller are a little bit less happy with 90C+
Correctly installed/setup, the 480 with a voltage tweak and running at 850+ on stock cooling is breaking into 90 degrees
5870 in xfire is outstanding btw.
No matter how good the nvidia cards are, I would still worry about sticking that runs so hot into my case, where all the other components will get hot. Same applies with watercooling unless you have a couple of triple or quads to cool the cards.
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