Incredible video, the realword difference between 480 & 5970

Sh3rlock · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:40

Up until now, I have been very unsure whether or not I am making the right decision selling up my 5870 crossfire setup for a single 480 GTX. I was casually browsing youtube this evening, looking at some review videos and videos demonstrating the fan noise on the 480 when I can across this;

After watching it, I am sitting back, very happy with my choice.

I will be ordering a 480 GTX on Wednesday and am very much looking forward to giving it a go !

RavenXXX2 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:45

To be fair tessellation is not a thing ATI do well this generation as shown by the heaven bench, in games the 5970 fairs better.

whitecrook · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:48

the ati card looks terrible - i can't beleive it , surely somesetup issue - it's juddering ughhhh

Jibber55 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:49

Cool man, how often to you play this benchmark? Oh yeah......
480 is a good card and i'm sure you'll be happy with it but personally I think you're mad or very rich or both! No way I would downgrade/ move sideways from a 5970 but then you may have a very valid reason of which I am yet to hear.

RavenXXX2 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:49

Low FPS can cause micro stutter in dual GPU cards.

buttkinz · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:49

Aye, unfortunatly there's been NO SWEARING, AND THAT INCLUDES DISGUISED SWEARING!!! all tesselation worth watching in any new games. With the gf104 chips nvidia have also scaled down the tesselation performance as it's not needed yet, hopefully next year someone may bring out a game that does more than texture a facemask or a wavy flag lol

Sh3rlock · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:51

Jibber55 said:
Cool man, how often to you play this benchmark? Oh yeah......
480 is a good card and i'm sure you'll be happy with it but personally I think you're mad or very rich or both! No way I would downgrade/ move sideways from a 5970 but then you may have a very valid reason of which I am yet to hear.

As mentioned in my OP.

I am moving from crossfire 5870's to a single 480 GTX.

I have numerous reason, the main one being ATI's driver support for crossfire setups.

Nocky24 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:52

Not exactly a real world comparison, but I know what you mean mate. The bad company 2 and far cry 2 5870 vs 480 gtx videos sold it to me though. Very nice minimums indeed and in the far cry 2 video the 480 hardly flinched during intense scenes. Very impressed. Should be ordering on Thursday all being well.

The 5970 is the better card though, it's just tessellation where it really suffers.

coupe69 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:54

Damien. said:
I have numerous reason, the main one being ATI's driver support for crossfire setups.

Yep, there's been an awfull lot of people complaining recently about the state of crossfire in the last few driver sets.

Jibber55 · 23 Aug 2010 at 20:58

Damien. said:
As mentioned in my OP.

I am moving from crossfire 5870's to a single 480 GTX.

I have numerous reason, the main one being ATI's driver support for crossfire setups.

So you moving from a set up that was more powerful than a 5970... yeah I can see why you pointed that out.
Fair enough with the drivers point. It must be really bad of it's forcing to throw money away like that (just mean the money lost on 5870's). Could you really not find any driver release that would work for you? I know most people are happy to sit on 10.4/10.5 and wait for a good release.
And the reason for this thread was what??? let everyone know that the 480 is faster at tessellation than 5970, this is major news, why did no one mention this before..... oh wait a sec......
Or is it to make you feel better about your decision, which is what it looks like.
No offence mate, just trying to understand what message you are trying to relay.

Final8y · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:01

That bench could not be further from real world.

franco_22 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:04

Jibber55 said:
Cool man, how often to you play this benchmark? Oh yeah......
480 is a good card and i'm sure you'll be happy with it but personally I think you're mad or very rich or both! No way I would downgrade/ move sideways from a 5970 but then you may have a very valid reason of which I am yet to hear.

You know he can just sell both 5870s, buy the GTX 480 and still make a profit right?

GJ02 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:08

Damien. said:
I will be ordering a 480 GTX on Wednesday and am very much looking forward to giving it a go !

so you have gone from a 5870xfire setup to a 480, are you planning on sli or just keeping the 1 card ?

bit of a daft move if you ask me

RavenXXX2 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:13

A 480 is more than powerful enough to deal with the latest and future titles, overclocked it's a beast, a single fast card is always preferable to a dual GPU setup than can give inconsistent performance as well as stability issues from time to time. TBH I doubt you would notice the difference in performance going from xfire 5870 to a single 480 overclocked to 800+ on the core.

Jibber55 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:16

franco_22 said:
You know he can just sell both 5870s, buy the GTX 480 and still make a profit right?

My word Holmes, I think you have something! Wait a second, he's still loosing money on the 5870's

Money is really a side issue anyway, when I upgrade my machine then I expect better GAME performance.
Unless he's skint and needs the money or unable to get it to work properly with his set up (which is what it sounds like) then I just don't see the point.

Mr Krugga · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:18

I think the OP should judge graphics cards by PhysX capability next time around.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/163?vs=158

Hope you watercool that 480 and clock the nutz of it for great justice.

Temi_D · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:19

'realworld difference'...then you show us a synthetic benchmark :confused:

The only realworld difference I saw there was power consumption

Jibber55 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:20

RavenXXX2 said:
A 480 is more than powerful enough to deal with the latest and future titles, overclocked it's a beast, a single fast card is always preferable to a dual GPU setup than can give inconsistent performance as well as stability issues from time to time. TBH I doubt you would notice the difference in performance going from xfire 5870 to a single 480 overclocked to 800+ on the core.

Not sure I could recomend this to anyone I would call a friend unless they were having some major compatability issues tbh.

RavenXXX2 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:25

Mr Krugga said:
I think the OP should judge graphics cards by PhysX capability next time around.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/163?vs=158

Hope you watercool that 480 and clock the nutz of it for great justice.

WoW, xfire 5870 does not even crush a stock 480, imagine the gap when you clock the 480, yeah you can clock the 5870's but were talking about one GPU v two cards. 480 all the way going by that chart, I can live with the slightly lower fps especially when the 480 is clocked, no more xfire scaling problems and inconsistent stuttering performance.

GJ02 · 23 Aug 2010 at 21:25

thing is, since fermi launch people are saying its getting better and better, reviews are showning that sli is the best you can get.
i think people are seeing this and starting to switch, look at raven, he was the biggest fermi non believer now look at him.
ive even considered it, but then realised its a no brainer unless im going to sli, but until next year new cards are out of the question.
going from a 5870xfire to a single 480 imo is a sidestep, a waste of time and loss of money.
why exactly are you doing this, xfire driver support is not an issue for me using 10.4, .6 and .8 all of which are rock solid with no real issues. i stick with .4's as they have been the best out of the 3 sets.
have you not considered waiting to see what ati bring out next ?