Geforce 480 vram enough?

[dmxdex2020]

I am getting myself a 480 sli setup soon. I would like to max out BF3 and try metro 2033 maxed out.

Is the vram on the 480s enough to handle these games without going over?

 

[harmony]

BF3 beta: enough for casual play, insufficient to avoid lag spikes according to some reports.

Metro 2033: you wouldn't want to enable MSAA 4X and DOF with merely a pair of GTX480s anyway, unless 30 fps in some scenes (40+ fps average) is fine for you to play shooting games.

Forgot to say that I was saying 1920 x 1200 resolution.

 

[harmony]

I have done some first tests there: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1273264

When I have had more robust results I might start another thread here in this forum.

 

[mattjd]

BF3 beta: enough for casual play, insufficient to avoid lag spikes according to some reports.

Metro 2033: you wouldn't want to enable MSAA 4X and DOF with merely a pair of GTX480s anyway, unless 30 fps in some scenes (40+ fps average) is fine for you to play shooting games.

Forgot to say that I was saying 1920 x 1200 resolution.

I thought BF3 Beta played pretty well on my GTX480. 1920x1080 Ultra (0x MSAA because it made the graphics look worst for me). It did not drop below 50fps which I think is absolutely fine for online. vRAM usage was always around 1400mb so 1.5gb vRAM is fine for 1920x1080.

 

[Cleeecooo]

It's fine, but you may need to turn the eye candy down a little

 

[dmxdex2020]

2 480s according to guru3d gets 53fps on average on metro 2033.

i was told on these forums i can max bf3 out with 2 480s with 60fps.

 

[Falconik]

Ignore people who say 2x 480 wont do BF3. I have 2 480 myself and runs over 60 FPS maxed out with full AA on 1920 1200. It rarley goes below 50 fps. I have tried the big map with planes etc with a full server and fps is 60-50 fps. I did not see it drop below 50. Drivers will only get better as well for BF3. Already 38 % performance fix for BF3 beta which helped a lot!

So yeh, 2x 480 GTX is way more than enought to max out BF3. However, Metro you can max it out but like others said, if your willing to get 30-40 fps. I have had it maxed out and goes to 28 fps MIN. It isnt unplayable though. But I like my gaming smooth ^^

 

[dmxdex2020]

Ignore people who say 2x 480 wont do BF3. I have 2 480 myself and runs over 60 FPS maxed out with full AA on 1920 1200. It rarley goes below 50 fps. I have tried the big map with planes etc with a full server and fps is 60-50 fps. I did not see it drop below 50. Drivers will only get better as well for BF3. Already 38 % performance fix for BF3 beta which helped a lot!

So yeh, 2x 480 GTX is way more than enought to max out BF3. However, Metro you can max it out but like others said, if your willing to get 30-40 fps. I have had it maxed out and goes to 28 fps MIN. It isnt unplayable though. But I like my gaming smooth ^^

only 28 is normally what one would get. 2 should get a lot more fps on metro mate.

 

[Falconik]

I will do another benchmark on everything maxed and post it here ^^ Cant actualy remember what i got last time ^^

 

[chriso132]

It will play both well. I played the bf3 beta on just about everything maxed and got 70-80 fps. The gtx480 is practically the same as the gtx570. Mine are also overclocked so they are faster than the 570's and near enough on par with the 580.

 

[kitch9]

2 480s according to guru3d gets 53fps on average on metro 2033.

i was told on these forums i can max bf3 out with 2 480s with 60fps.

Easily. It ran at around 50fps on one for me. I didn't bother with MSAA (I used FXAA instead.) or HBAO (I used SSAO) as it made the game look worse IMO.

 

[Colasanto]

I have one overclocked 480 that can run metro 2033 maxed out with no issues at all (40fps avg)

Running 1080p res - Also had no issues with BF3 beta, smooth as anything maxed out.

EDIT: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/mukmu/ my overclock on it. Gonna take it up more but was focusing on my memory clock. 850mhz easily achievable. 1.113v atm