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Hmm... GTX480 and unheavenly performance?

well i sold my gtx 480 unfortunately so i can't give my results with that card, but i do have a gtx 560 2GB to test (2nd one arriving next week). only running 900/2100 right now for testing

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I did a quick run of Heaven last night.

I am running my Q6600 at stock at the minute

I got 1116 @1920x1200.


My friend in the states got 853 with a 460 and his Q6600 at stock @ 1680x1050
Another friend got 1244 with an i7 and a 570 @ 190x1200.
 
My heaven benchmark at 1680x1050 in windowed mode, running at 800 core btw :-

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EDIT: Seems most people are running this without AA cos the mode doesn't say e.g. 4xAA like mine does. Gonna run a fullscreen non AA one and see what I get then..

EDIT2: At 1680x1050 full screen mode with no AA I get 1599 FPS 63.5 :-

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Thanks to everyone who posted benchies of their 480s with various set-ups running 1680x1050 runs of Heaven.

Based on what I've seen on these, it seems there are few things we can tentatively conclude:
1. CPU does make a difference in Heaven - more than I would have expected.
2. With a Q6600 or probably even Phenom II X4, even heavily overclocked, a clocked-up GTX470 will probably give comparable performance with a GTX480 even if that card is also clocked. Guess I could have saved myself £50... :)
3. A heavily clocked GTX460 gets to within 20% or so of a stock 480 on a Q6600 system!

Thanks again to the helpful people in this thread. I have to admit this has put my mind to rest somewhat about there being something up with my card. Good to see at least some comparable results from other GTX480 owners with similar overall systems.
 
Michaeljcox24 said:
so now you've said what you've said, do you plan to upgrade your chip and / or monitor?
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I'd always planned to wait until I could see what Bulldozer and Ivy Bridge brought to the table and make an upgrade decision based on that. Although I must admit that I'm surprised at the results of the various Heaven runs I've been seeing (and I'm guessing they'll mirror gaming results, too), I don't think there's any need to revise those plans and upgrade asap.
 
Heaven is just one benchmark - maybe it's a bit glitchy on your computer. Shouldn't you test your card and other people test theirs in a couple of other benchmarks, and see if your 480 widens the gap from that 470?
 
Yeah, all this is a bit tentative since it's based on one benchmark.

However, with my GTX460, I did quite a lot of extensive testing of my card at stock and overclocked both to test stability and see what improvement I was getting for the extra voltage. I ran the Batman: AA bench, the Just Cause 2 Dark Tower bench, and the Mafia II bench as well as runs of Heaven 2.1.

After a few runs, I found the Heaven bench was the most consistent and seemed to give pretty good approximations for general performance of my card's overclocks. It was also by far the best test for stability (any clock that ran through 3 loops successfully never failed me in a game, whereas in games it seemed more random as to when instability would show up).

Of course before drawing any really strong conclusions about the 480, I'd want more extensive testing, but for a speculative initial idea I have good confidence in the Heaven benchmark - and I know it runs fine on my PC.
 
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