NVIDIA benchmarks GeForce GTX 480 against AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870

[solway]

NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi, made a few brief appearances at this week's CeBIT, and though we'll have to wait until March 26 for an official unveiling, the graphics giant has teased its upcoming high-end solution - the GeForce GTX 480 - in a surprise YouTube video.

The clip, featuring NVIDIA's director of technical marketing Tom Petersen shows a GeForce GTX 480 running in a high-end X58 system equipped with an Intel Core i7 960 processor. After a brief explanation of DirectX 11, particularly the goodness on offer from hardware tessellation, Petersen provides a performance comparison between the GeForce GTX 480 and AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 using the Unigine 'Heaven' benchmark.

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Source:
http://www.*****.net/content/item.php?item=22779
edit: the site name word is being filtered?

so redirect link
http://aiphaih.notlong.com

 

[rhys216]

^^^
Still doesn't work.
Please tell me it's not Unigine again...

 

[Th3D0n]

???? little useless if i cant get to the site!

 

[solway]

???? little useless if i cant get to the site!

christ give me a minute, even tiny url is filtered

updated

 

[Lightnix]

???? little useless if i cant get to the site!

Six me!

 

[rhys216]

^^^
Lol! It's Unigine!!!

 

[Th3D0n]

Six me!

lol

 

[Pendu]

Does this mean nVidia are lining up the 480 as a competitor to the 5870, the 470 as a competitor to the 5850?

 

[rhys216]

Yes but I don't think they mean to...
From the naming schemes of last round the 480 should be up against the 5970 like the 280 was against the 4870x2, and with the 470 against the 5890 and a 460 against the 5870 and a GTX450 (GTS350) against the 5850 and so on.

 

[kylew]

Yes but I don't think they mean to...
From the naming schemes of last round the 480 should be up against the 5970 like the 280 was against the 4870x2, and with the 470 against the 5890 and a 460 against the 5870 and a GTX450 (GTS350) against the 5850 and so on.

The only reason the GTX280 was up against the 4870X2 was because of its price.

nVidia certainly didn't intend for it to compete with the X2 for performance, it was simply no contest.

Same way that initially the GTX9800GTX was competing against the 4870, it was because they were at the same pricepoints, the 4870 blew it away which forced nVidia to lower most of their prices.

 

[Gerard]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18121646