***Nvidia GTX480 & 470 reviews & discussion***

[Jono8]

All anybody sees is the opposite to their opinion because they want to believe that they're the one who is right and everybody else is wrong.

meh, I just agree with the facts.

480 is the fastest single GPU...but it is badly priced,too hot and consumes too much power.

Therefore it is a product that is not good value for money.

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Isn't this thread meant to be a discussion? How many pages of the same ing drivel do we have to put up with. Ati fanboys hate the fermi thats fine, nvidia fanboys want to stand up for it, that's fine. No one at either company cares if a few young boys on a forum have a sword and shield with their logos on them...

 

[londonbairn]

Found this over at GuruBBQ

"The new Nvidia GPUs are spot on when it comes to cooking food, cooking our meats almost instantly with a superb charcoal taste. The ATi cards lacked behind, even subjected to 100% torture in a furnace, whereas the Nvidia cards comfortably cooked the food at idle in a ice cold room"

 

[rypt]

If it is quicker than all the others.

at what though

5870 is faster at GPGPU than the 480, I guess that means it is the fastest GPU around

 

[ejr22]

at what though

being faster.

 

[AMG]

the best thing I can say about fermi is that its no worst than its rivel card form ATI


So really I m defending both

but why pay £150 more for a card what runs hotter? which we can't help and takes a lot more power which we can't help

I will be pretty chessed off buying a £450 card and finding out a £300 card can keep up with it, need alone with card card running cooler and taking far less power.

 

[rypt]

being faster.

So the 5870 is the fastest GPU then, as it's faster at GPGPU according to that bench

GPGPU testing is a much more accurate method of determining RAW power than gaming FPS

 

[RavenXXX2]

Just to reinforce my post about overclocking the 5870 to oust the 480 performance wise, below is the overclocking results with a 480, he compares it to the clocking results of a 5870 of which beats the clocked 480, of course the results will vary with different games, even so, food for thought.

The actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 8.5%.
A Radeon HD 5870 overclocked to 1000 / 1370 reaches 132.3 FPS in the same test.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_480_Fermi/35.html

 

[ejr22]

So the 5870 is the fastest GPU then, as it's faster at GPGPU according to that bench

Going by your previous posts you're clearly an ATI fanboy/Nvidia hater so I won't bother trying to argue with you.

 

[Jokester]

At the end of the day you can either buy a 5870 for £310 or you can pay

45% more for a 10% gain with a 480GTX

or

60% more for a 60%(?) gain with a 5970

 

[AMG]

that does surprise me I thought the fermi would be faster in that situation

*edit*

also you can overclock the HD5870 by quite a bit


so its not stopping there

 

[rypt]

At the end of the day you can either buy a 5870 for £310 or you can pay

45% more for a 10% gain with a 480GTX

or

60% more for a 60%(?) gain with a 5970

Or buy 2x 5850 for 40% more and get a gain of 30% or something.

 

[Naff8000]

At the end of the day you can either buy a 5870 for £310 or you can pay

45% more for a 10% gain with a 480GTX

or

60% more for a 60%(?) gain with a 5970

hmm I'm going to save up another £9 and buy a worse card

 

[Jono8]

At the end of the day you can either buy a 5870 for £310 or you can pay

45% more for a 10% gain with a 480GTX

or

60% more for a 60%(?) gain with a 5970

and since when have these sort of price/performance percentages been any different in the world of graphics cards

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-152-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502

£50 for what will probably amount to about a 5% increase (if that) in performance over a regular 5870

 

[GJ02]

i have 2 of the worst cards and there better than the fastest gpu on the planet !

 

[Shocky-FM]

Going by your previous posts you're clearly an ATI fanboy/Nvidia hater so I won't bother trying to argue with you.

Yep, best ignore this guy unless you like talking to brick walls.

 

[Jokester]

and since when have these sort of price/performance percentages been any different in the world of graphics cards

Well, only since the 280GTX to be honest, previously to that ATI and Nvidia used to price their cards fairly evenly along the lines of price/performance. And for pre-overclocked cards, fools and their money are easily parted.

 

[Tute]

Yep, best ignore this guy unless you like talking to brick walls.

In fairness, both you and ejr are running a real risk of "pot, kettle" with those comments.

 

[ejr22]

In fairness, both you and ejr are running a real risk of "pot, kettle" with those comments.

ATI clearly have the bang for buck crown and the fastest card

Sure.

 

[kylew]

The problem is we are not going to see a dual GTX480 so the GTX480 has to fill that spot as well. I think Jokesters argument is totally correct if Nvidia can't build a dual GPU card.

IMO SLI/cross fire should be outlawed until they provide 1-1 scaling, but thats another discussion.

4 or more CPU core. Should be "outlawed" too according to that logic.