GTX 480 Faster than GTX 295??????

RichardH754 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:14

I hope the GTX 480 will be a lot faster than GTX 295!!

I need to get something that is a lot faster than Quad SLI GTX 295s!

Any ideas?

'Wes · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:15

Don't count on it.

rjk · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:20

RichardH754 said:
I need to get something that is a lot faster than Quad SLI GTX 295s!

Any ideas?

do you have three 30" monitors?

RichardH754 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:22

I have 1 32" 1080p set up, but even with Quad Sli with AA forced on I get a lot of slowdown!

Maybe I should try 3 single cards this time.

arc@css · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:25

I would consider three single cards over two dual cards. That should be better.

ralv585 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:25

We don't know yet.

Wait and see!!!!!!!

Jezcentral · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:28

If you are only playing at 1920x1080, do you really need to upgrade?

P.S. Of course, if you WANT to upgrade, that's fine.

kitch9 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:37

RichardH754 said:
I have 1 32" 1080p set up, but even with Quad Sli with AA forced on I get a lot of slowdown!

Maybe I should try 3 single cards this time.

Whats the specs of your system? My 5870 chews through everything I throw at it with ease. (Apart from Crysis and Metro 2033)

titaniumx3 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:38

Hopefully the 480 should be able to match the 295. The 5870 is pretty much there already and it's almost certain the 480 should surpass the 5870 (it better do anyway!).

The real question is by how much exactly and at what cost.

straxusii · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:46

I'll be amazed if the 5870 doesnt match the 295 these days overall, it was 90% as fast on launch day and the driver updates since have been immense.

I would also be amazed if 480 wasnt faster than 295

Cooper · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:48

The fact we are even having to ask the question is a sign just how FUBAR these so called 'next gen' Nvidia chips are....

How can a new gen 'top of the line' GPU be slower than the last gen 'top of the line' GPU and it still be called progress??.

Clever marketing + Gullible consumers = rip off.

RichardH754 · 22 Mar 2010 at 14:52

This is what im worried about, the GTX 480 should be a little bit faster than the GTX 295! (I hope!)

straxusii · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:01

Cooper said:
How can a new gen 'top of the line' GPU be slower than the last gen 'top of the line' GPU and it still be called progress??.

Very easily, when old is dual GPU and new is single GPU

gatecrasherlok · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:03

in theory we would all like them to be faster but isn' the best comparison of the 480 card to be against the 5870 and its predecessor the gtx280 since they are single cards whereas the 295 is dual?

Phatzy · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:03

Cooper said:
The fact we are even having to ask the question is a sign just how FUBAR these so called 'next gen' Nvidia chips are....

How can a new gen 'top of the line' GPU be slower than the last gen 'top of the line' GPU and it still be called progress??.

the fastest current gen nvidia card is 2 chips on 1 card and the GTX480 is a single chip so i say the next gen is faster.

titaniumx3 · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:05

Also in the past, say when the 8800GTX came out, SLi/Crossfire were pretty crap back then, so it's no wonder the card beat them (i.e. the 7950GX2).

hideki · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:05

ravl585 said:
We don't know yet.

Wait and see!!!!!!!

If only people could

Rroff · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:07

I'm suprised your seeing slowdown at 1920x with 2x GTX295.

I'm using GTX260 SLI and when gaming on my 2048x panel I get silly high fps with everything turned up in most games.

Rroff · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:12

titaniumx3 said:
Also in the past, say when the 8800GTX came out, SLi/Crossfire were pretty crap back then, so it's no wonder the card beat them (i.e. the 7950GX2).

SLI wasn't too bad back then - tho still was far from perfect granted. The bigger reason why the 8800 cards could beat the GX2 by a decent margin in quite a few games was due to the move from fixed function to unified shader architectures. So instead of 48 frag/16 vertex pipelines that were stuck doing what they did and if they were underused didn't contribute at all - you have 96-128 pipelines that can be distributed to whatever part of the processing needed them most - so ignoring OP/s, etc. thats automatically almost double the performance potential and in theory upto 4-5x the performance.

magicroundabout · 22 Mar 2010 at 15:13

RichardH754 said:
I have 1 32" 1080p set up, but even with Quad Sli with AA forced on I get a lot of slowdown!

Maybe I should try 3 single cards this time.

can i be the first to say you are complete overkill with those cards at that res. buy another 2 x 32" monitors and you might unleash the full power.

personally i'd sell them and buy a single card solution.