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***THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD***

no_1_dave said:
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS: 47.6
Scores: 1199
Min FPS: 9.6
Max FPS: 103.8

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

Not sure how this compares.
This is with my 470 & system in sig.
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Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS: 41.3
Scores: 1040
Min FPS: 13.7
Max FPS: 114.5

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1680x1050 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

With a 5870 @ 915/1250, notice the higher min and max fps though ;)
 
Some benchmarks for you all.

All tests are @ 1920x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF, all advanced settings set to max unless stated, OS Win 7 HP x64.

I5 is clocked to 3.6GHz (18x200bclk) 4GB of memory @ 1600MHz 8-8-8-26, will re-run with cpu @ 4GHz tomorrow if I get time.
Video cards are at stock clocks....for the time being!

First off Dirt 2:

dirt2_game2010-04-1700-44-03-20.jpg


Just cause 2, Dark Tower:

JustCause22010-04-1700-20-14-30.jpg


Just cause 2, Desert sunrise:

JustCause22010-04-1700-22-53-52.jpg


Just cause 2, Concrete Jungle:

JustCause22010-04-1700-24-48-97.jpg


Batman AA using just the GTX 480 for rendering and physX:

batman480physx.jpg


Batman AA Using GTX 480 for rendering and GTX 260 for PhysX:

batman480260physx.jpg


Unigine Heaven 2.0 normal tessellation:

heavenbenchmark.jpg


Unigine Heaven 2.0 extreme tessellation:

heavenxtreme.jpg


3DMark Vantage settings:

vantagesettings.jpg


3DMark Vantage result:

vantage480xtreme.jpg
 
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Excuse the messiness of this post guys, just thought I'd post a few quick benches for you to have a gander at.

Heaven benchmark, default settings, 1900 x 1200



Furmark - 1900 x 1200, 32xAA, ran 7 minutes, auto fan speed, temps peaked at 90c :o

Note, the fan only ramped to 68% when temps peaked at 90c (top right of pic), I thought it would have been more than that? Surprisingly though it's a lot quieter than my 280's fan when running at the same rpm and no louder than my case fans.



Furmark - 1900 x 1200, 32xAA, ran 8 minutes, fan manually set to 100%, temps peaked at 67c

Definitely too loud for my (or anyones) liking when set to 100%, still nice to see temps never peak above 67c though. Personally I think 75% will be the sweet spot for keeping noise and temps well within check.



3D MARK VANTAGE - 21328

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2098968

5870 in the same system scored 18547



GTA 4 - 1900 X 1200, all settings maxed.

Statistics
Average FPS: 62.91
Duration: 37.30 sec
CPU Usage: 61%
System memory usage: 69%
Video memory usage: 93%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Resolution: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: Very High
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Video Driver version: 197.41
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

Assassins Creed 2 - 1900 X 1200, 4x AA, all settings maxed, vsync enabled, benched for 5 minutes whilst free running/causing mayhem around the city.

2010-04-16 23:11:36 - AssassinsCreedIIGame
Frames: 17887 - Time: 300787ms - Avg: 59.467 - Min: 52 - Max: 60

^^ Other than the framerate dropping to 52 for a brief second the card held a constant 60fps. Well impressed.

Assassins Creed 2 at same settings as above but with vsync disabled. Seems the framerate is locked at 60.

2010-04-16 23:36:24 - AssassinsCreedIIGame
Frames: 17466 - Time: 291144ms - Avg: 59.990 - Min: 59 - Max: 60

BAD COMPANY 2 - DX 9, Africa Harbor, 10 V's 10, 7 minutes played - 1900 x 1200, all maxed except bloom and HSAO.

2010-04-17 01:21:36 - BFBC2Game
Frames: 51173 - Time: 386420ms - Avg: 132.428 - Min: 69 - Max: 200

BAD COMPANY 2 -DX 10, Nelson Bay, 10 V's 10, 14 minutes played - 1900 x 1200, 8xAA, all maxed except bloom and HSAO.

2010-04-17 01:56:03 - BFBC2Game
Frames: 95226 - Time: 846451ms - Avg: 112.500 - Min: 48 - Max: 177

Note some tests state my cpu is running at 4GHz, or in gta's case, 2.66GHz, I think that's because they're not reading the 21 multi as I have turbo boost turned on, cpu is actually running at 4.2GHz.

I'll post some more + clocking results when I've finished having a play. :D
 
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coupe69 said:
Some benchmarks for you all.

All tests are @ 1920x1200 with 4xAA and 16xAF, all advanced settings set to max unless stated, OS Win 7 HP x64.

I5 is clocked to 3.6GHz (18x200bclk) 4GB of memory @ 1600MHz 8-8-8-26, will re-run with cpu @ 4GHz tomorrow if I get time.
Video cards are at stock clocks....for the time being!



Just cause 2, Dark Tower:

JustCause22010-04-1700-20-14-30.jpg
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this is with a 5850 @ 850/1200 and a Phenom II x4 @ 3.6 and 4gb of ddr2 memory.

 
straxusii said:
It's not the same test mate, he's got physx and a higher res
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Oh i doubted the slight difference in res would make much more than 1-2fps difference and i didnt see that he had physx on. but then again since it a poor console port i doubt the physx is implemented much anyways.
 
For reference I get about 52 fps in that demo same settings and 1920x1200, it's cuda not physx and doesnt work with my setup (so the 9600GT isnt used for cuda I guess if it was physx then the 9600GT would be used in just cause 2)
 
straxusii said:
For reference I get about 52 fps in that demo same settings and 1920x1200, it's cuda not physx and doesnt work with my setup (so the 9600GT isnt used for cuda I guess if it was physx then the 9600GT would be used in just cause 2)
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so very close to a 5870 then given the small % performance increase over my 5850 due to the extra shaders
 
straxusii said:
Different res mate, you might think that 1080p is approximately equal to 1200p but 1200p is ~11% bigger
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ok then, I dont suppose you would like to rebench at the same settings as me when you get the time would you? And i havent seen but im guessing that your using a 480?
 
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I think you guys should use 1680 rez as well, as it's a fairy popular rez and it would make comparisons between setups a lot easier, it's not as if us with 1680 max rez monitors can bench any higher rez, you guys with 1920 monitors can come down to us though.
 
I don't mind re running some tests at 1680x1050, but can we at least crank the settings up, after all I didn't spend the best part of a half a grand on a video card to run with no AA and only 4xAF etc.

16xAF and 4xAA should be the minimum prerequisite for all these tests.
 
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