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

[DragonRR]

Nice score, 5870 below @ 1000 core/1240 mem

I suspect the 9.6FPS min on the 470 is an anomaly, I ran a Heaven benchmark earlier that stuttered right at the begining and kept a min of around 15fps. Anyway 480 screeny, same resolution. No OC.

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

the card is sandwhiched between a x-fi and the gts250, so it's not got an ideal amount of space

too cool, but I do have to apache blacks blowing down on it, and another one blowing into the

vents I'll maybe try some pics later

I've gone for an overclock straight away, 50mhz core and 50mhz ram.

Done some benches against 280 also


GTX280 197.13
core 675mhz
mem 1300mhz
shader 1415mhz
driver 197.13

GTX480
core 750mhz
mem 1950Mhz
shader 1500mhz
197.41

All Benches at 1920x1080 and 4xAA unless stated

RE5
Fixed benchmark DX10
GTX280 87.9FPS
GTX480 129.4

GTX280 3DV 39.5fps (motion blur off)
GTX480 3DV 48.7fps (motion blur off) hit 93c, fan got quite loud. suprised by the score :O


Batman Arkham Asylum
(All settings yes except motion blur off)
GTX280, no physx min:78 max:190 avg:139 reached 87c, fan went very high
GTX480, no physx min:121 max:274 avg:200 reached 93c, fan wasn't too bad
GTX480, no physx, 3DV min:49 max:60 avg:59 temp <90c

GTX280, high physx min:32 max:81 avg:53 reached 81c
GTX480, high physx min:39 max:137 avg:86 reached 90c

GTX280, GTS 250 physx min:50 max:134 avg:93
GTX480, GTS 250 physx min:47 max:164 avg:99 - suprised by this one! GTS250 the bottleneck?

GTX280, GTS 250 physx, 3DV min:26 max:60 avg:46 (reached 90c! then fan went really high)
GTX480, GTS 250 physx, 3DV min:23 max:60 avg:48 90c, probably a bottleneck somewhere (250

again?)


Crysis
VERY HIGH, benchmark_gpu
GTX280 NO AA min:15.99 max:27.47 avg:22.13
GTX480 NO AA min:28.97 max:46.11 avg:38.59

GTX280 4x AA min:13.53 max:22.16 avg:18.25
GTX480 4x AA min:26.57 max:39.27 avg:33.58


Heaven Benchmark v2.0

Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

NO AA
FPS: 52.0
Scores: 1311
Min FPS: 9.7
Max FPS: 117.2

4XAA
FPS: 43.4
Scores: 1092
Min FPS: 29.5
Max FPS: 93.4

2nd run using 1680x1050 as most seem to be using that

3Dmark Vantage
SCORE: 22013
GPU: 18630
CPU: 48361

GPU1: 59.73
GPU2: 49.23
CPU1: 3447.96
CPU2: 144.80

 

[no_1_dave]

Ok, here it all is:

470 boxed & new:

Next to my GTX 275
Notice how the 275 is actually bigger:

In my system, its no longer then the motherboard
Much smaller then I expected:

Not overclocked (yet)
Looks as though it should be able to overclock well: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-470-480-review/34
I'm really pleased so far. Going to test some games like Metro now & some 3D Vision

 

[RavenXXX2]

Nice overclock 1900+ on the core

Update your GPU-Z

 

[ToxicTBag]

Evening all...anyone have any idea which cards may come into stock next? Noticed someone said an hour ago there was some in stock i guessed i missed them as theyre all showing eta's which card was that? Thanks

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah they are in stock, but not necessarily here.

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Nice overclock 1900+ on the core

Update your GPU-Z

yeh i spotted that after but cba running vantage again :S updated post

 

[ToxicTBag]

Crumbs i'm hopeless at charades - any chance of a small indirect clue - much appreciated RavenXXX2

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Crumbs i'm hopeless at charades - any chance of a small indirect clue - much appreciated RavenXXX2

if you try scanning the internet you might find a 470..

 

[ToxicTBag]

Ahah got it ...thank you RavenXXX2 and Mr Fujisawa

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah there are still 480's doing the rounds as well.

 

[Liampope]

no_1_dave - if you want to get that close, look for the macro button (flower symbol)! Alternatively stay further away and crop afterwards - thos pics are plenty big enough

 

[Sylver123]

Hay guys,

Does anyone know whether the EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper comes with a complete water cooling kit in the box with it, every thing to get it up and running under water??? If it doesn`t, then what other parts would I need to buy to get the card fully running under water???

Thanks for responding.

 

[no_1_dave]

no_1_dave - if you want to get that close, look for the macro button (flower symbol)! Alternatively stay further away and crop afterwards - thos pics are plenty big enough

Lol yea, havent taken pics of gfx cards etc before

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

higher OC

 

[VoG]

Hay guys,

Does anyone know whether the EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Hydro Copper comes with a complete water cooling kit in the box with it, every thing to get it up and running under water??? If it doesn`t, then what other parts would I need to buy to get the card fully running under water???

Thanks for responding.

afaik tis just a card with a waterblock on. so you'll need a pump, rad, fan, hose, hose clips, & coolant of choice.

 

[Sylver123]

afaik tis just a card with a waterblock on. so you'll need a pump, rad, fan, hose, hose clips, & coolant of choice.

Thanks mate for responding.

 

[ToxicTBag]

Yeah there are still 480's doing the rounds as well.

Appreciate the pointer RavenXXX2 nabbed 2 480's just in case

 

[RavenXXX2]

Overclocking on the 480 seems to scale very well, nice increase over stock clocks, how high can she go? and what about temps and fan noise.

Appreciate the pointer RavenXXX2 nabbed 2 480's just in case

Nice, easily make a profit on one or both of them if you wished, saying that, overclocked 480's in SLI can produce some amazing FPS.

 

[Mr Fujisawa]

Overclocking on the 480 seems to scale very well, nice increase over stock clocks, how high can she go? and what about temps and fan noise.

Just tried 800 core, fan still on auto, but it crashed out at the dragon when it hit 94c.

What I've found happen during my testing is, regardless of clock, when it hits 93/94c the fan kicks in and brings the temp down to 90c. It's definitely loud when it does this, but it should be fine when gaming.