Testseek.co.uk have collected 140 expert reviews of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB GDDR5 PCIe.
March 2010
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Fastest single-GPU card Brand new architecture Tessellation-happy Only needs 8-pin and 6-pin power All the CUDA and PhysX goodness included
Pluses
Good performance in games
DirectX 11 compatible
3D Vision and 3D Surround
Acceleration of processing with CUDA compatible applications
Fast performance. Supports DirectX 11. Enables 3D Vision Surround with appropriate hardware.
Expensive. Power-hungry. Does not markedly outperform competing cards.
Nvidia's first DirectX 11 video card has been a long time in coming and it's not quite worth the wait. Though it's the fastest card on the market by a hair, its performance gains don't entirely justify its price. ...
By all accounts the GeForce GTX 480 is not the beast we were hoping it would be. It's main competitor, the Radeon HD 5870 is no slouch, so beating it in almost every test is a real accomplishment, however in many cases it wasn't a great deal faster wh...
Fastest singleunit DX11 graphics accelerator available, Best pricetoperformance cost ratio, GF100 Introduces Error Correcting Code (ECC), Outstanding performance for ultra highend games, Fan exhausts all heated air outside of case, Includes native HD...
Consumes 52W at idle and 370W under full load, Extremely hot under normal operation, Very expensive premiumlevel product, Cooling fan is audible under load
NVIDIA is back on top again, right where most gamers like to see them. Pros: + Fastest single-unit DX11 graphics accelerator available+ Best price-to-performance cost ratio+ GF100 Introduces Error Correcting Code (ECC)+ Outstanding performance for ul...
Abstract: Thanks to the modular, scalable design of PCI-Express, consisting of independent data-paths called 'lanes', motherboard designers can control a limited PCI-Express lane budget, and offer multiple PCI-Express x16 slots. In mid-range motherboards, and p...
As I was putting this story together, I asked senior editor Thomas Soderstrom what he wanted to know about GeForce GTX 480 and 470. He said, “price, performance, and power.” Reasonable enough. I’ll break it down similarly simply....
NVIDIA had a bit of a troubled launch with delays to their chip pushing this card back into March causing the market to have one DirectX 11 solution from ATI. The decision to release a card with fewer cores than originally planned must have been a diff...
Published: 2010-03-26, Author: Ken , review by: legitreviews.com
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 was known to be hot and fast before it came out and that is exactly what it turned out as being. If you like this article, be sure to ! ...
My thoughts going into this review were nothing but skeptical. Would NVIDIA actually be able to make a product after all the delays and rumored production problems that was worth considering? The answer was a surprising 'yes' as the GeForce GTX...
Relatively Fast, DirectX 11 Support, PhysX + CUDA Support, Great SLI Scaling
High Power Consumption, Hot and Can Be Loud, Late To Market, Only Slightly Faster Than 5870, For Much More Money
The GeForce GTX 480's performance lead over the Radeon HD 5870 increase when paired up in a dual-GPU SLI configuration. With their current drivers, NVIDIA-power cards offered better performance scaling in multi-GPU configurations, which resulted in larger...
Fastest single GPU card to-date, DirectX 11 support, Substantial performance improvements in DirectX 11, GDDR5 memory, Software voltage control seems possible, Native HDMI output, Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround, Support for CUDA, PhysX and 3D Visio
High power draw, Noisy cooler, High temperatures, Fairly high price, Paper launch, High temperatures and power draw makes SLI and triple SLI difficult, Limited availability, Only 480 shaders, DirectX 11 won't be relevant for quite a while
The first comparable thing to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 that comes to the mind are the powerful yet gas-guzzling SUVs that are used for cross-country drives with heavy loads, comfortably. Often stereotyped with fuel-inefficiency, those vehicles don't...
