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Here a roundup of today's NVIDIA Geforce GTX 480 reviews



GeForce GTX 480 PCI-Express Scaling
NVIDIA's latest beast offers unprecedented performance to the enthusiast gamer. But it also requires massive amounts of data being fed to it to perform. That's why it is commonly expected that high-end graphics cards are crippled if the PCI-Express interface does not offer the maximum speed of x16 2.0. We test four different PCI-E configurations and their performance to shine light on this question.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series preview
With so much rendering horsepower at its disposal, it's more than welcome news to see NVIDIA focusing on 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing with their new high-end parts, and in the chart above we can see the company's claims that 8x MSAA suffers a far smaller performance hit with the GeForce GTX 400 series compared to the GeForce GTX 200 series illustrated for your perusal. With support for up to 32x Coverage Sample anti-aliasing to add to the mix, you certainly shouldn't be left wanting in terms of image quality improvements from this generation of hardware.

SLI scaling is also improved for this new generation of hardware, with 90% scaling expected of many titles thanks to improvements to both caching and compression within the GF100 architecture. Needless to say, 3-way SLI is still supported at the high-end, and we should also be seeing Quad SLI making an appearance further down the line according to NVIDIA.
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NVIDIA Geforce GTX 480 Review @ Hardware Canucks
After nearly a year of waiting, NVIDIA is finally launching their Fermi-based GTX 400 series of DX11 cards today. With ATI currently dominating the marketplace with their HD 5000-series, NVIDIA needs to offer a near-perfect combination of price and performance to succeed. Can their flagship GTX 480 accomplish this?
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review @ Ninjalane
In this review we will be looking at new GeForce GTX 480 and some of the new technology and performance it brings to the table. Does this card have what it takes to be a real graphical powerhouse?, will the 32 core reduction in power be enough to beat the Radeon HD 5870??
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Fermi @ techPowerUp
Today marks the release of NVIDIA's new GeForce Fermi architecture. After excruciating months of delays, NVIDIA has finally given the green light for their new products. The GeForce GTX 480 offers all the latest features like DirectX 11, Tesselation, gaming on multiple monitors and GPU computation. Did NVIDIA's new card manage to claim the throne?
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Review @ HardwareHeaven.com
So today one of the most discussed graphics card launches of all time takes place; join us as we take a look at the real world performance of the GTX 480 covering DirectX 9, 10, 10.1 and 11 gaming, GPU Computing (CUDA), High Definition playback, PhysX, 3DVision, gaming with 32x anti-aliasing and even 3D-DVD playback. If that's not enough then how about internal and external temperat ure readings, power use then some overclocking?
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Review of the GTX 480
From just a price-performance metric, the GTX 480 is a fine match for ATI offerings.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480: GF100 Has Landed @ HotHardware.com
For better or worse, the launch of NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture codenamed Fermi, a.k.a. GF100, is one of the most highly anticipated in our industry, ever. NVIDIA may be late with their DX11-class cards, but launching strong products that compete favorably at their respective price points may erase some lingering concerns about the company and restore faith in prospective consumers. To that end, we can finally show you what NVIDIA has in store for the hardcore gamers out there. Today, NVIDIA is officially unveiling the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. We have two of the flagship GeForce GTX 480 cards in house, and have tested them alongside NVIDIA's previous-gen products and AMD's Radeon HD 5800 / 5900 series, both in single and dual-card configurations. Check out the article right here...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GF100 DX11 Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
Heat and power aside, the GeForce GTX 480 graphics card is impressive as they took the single GPU performance crown back from ATI and that was no easy task. They also improved the GPGPU performance over the previous generation core by a fair amount. Seeing F@H performance jump up nearly 70% was amazing, but at the same time the power and heat increases took the fun out of that performance increase. Having waited this long for Fermi to come out, I personally expected a little different user experience and many of you might have as well...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Fermi Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
At the center of every new technology is purpose, and NVIDIA has designed their Fermi GF100 GPU with an end-goal of redefining the video game experience through significant graphics processor innovations. Disruptive technology often changes the way users interact with computers, and the GeForce GTX 480 graphics card is a complex tool built to arrive at one simple destination: immersive entertainment. Priced at $499, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 empowers DirectX-11 video games to deliver unmatched geometric realism. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests 3D frame rate performance of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480, and demonstrates how well Fermi architecture fits in with GeForce 3D-Vision.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Review: Fermi Arrives
After a lengthy delay we are finally able to show you what Nvidia has been working on for the past few years. As you may know, the GeForce GTX 280 was Nvidia's last big launch in 2008 that comprised of innovative technology, at the time rewriting the record books as the fastest single-GPU graphics card. Besides the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 that went on sale months later, anything after the GTX 280 has been a rehash of the same GT200b graphics core.

The company battled it out against the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, which had some good performers but was somewhat light on firepower. Long story short, last September ATI was already shipping brand new parts that were faster and more efficient, while Nvidia wasn't giving out any specific details on Fermi. These new Radeons became the first products to steal the performance crown away from Nvidia in a long time, and they did so in a very convincing fashion.

Now Nvidia is finally ready fire back with a new piece of graphics silicon aimed at consumers and the enthusiast crowd based on its latest Fermi architecture, code-named GF100. The new series will debut with the GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 graphics cards. Designed to be the next evolution in GPU computing, we are excited to see what these new boards are
capable of, and whether or not they'll be able to bring Nvidia back into the spotlight.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 DirectX 11 Video Card Review @ Hi Tech Legion
In the past a GPU lacked the technology to render life like images as well as realistic scenery. We were used to seeing polygons which made things appear to be realistic but just didn't have the overall look and feel. With technological advances which include Tessellation and Ray Tracing images are more realistic, lighting can cast shadows, hair flows as if it were being blown in a breeze (and looks like real hair), buildings blow up into a million pieces and interact with the characters. This is all due to technology and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 DirectX 11 Video Card is one of the most technologically advanced video cards to date.
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Nvidia GTX 480 Review @ OCC
ATI has filled its product stack from top to bottom so nVidia has its work cut out for itself, filling up its stack to compete with ATI at all price points. To achieve this, nVidia built a scalable architecture that uses GPU clusters so you can drop clusters (four on the GTX 480) to reach a performance and price point. It will be interesting to see how nVidia fills out its DirectX 11 portfolio. All things considered, nVidia stepped up to the plate (albeit rather late) and delivered gaming performance with visual quality. While the cards do not hit stores until the week of April 12, nVidia has assured us of an ample supply of cards available on launch.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) @ InsideHW
Six months have passed since the first DirectX 11 accelerator seeing the light of day. ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 was presented on 23rd September 2009. After its appearance and the graduate fading of the media appraisal of the new standards and models, all eyes turned to Nvidia, impatiently waiting for a competitor. Unfortunately, as time went by with no response, Nvidia started to gather attention by some rather strange ways. First of all, an overblown secrecy surrounding the development of the new GPU which was supposedly on its way, supported by a “fishy” model of a supposed Fermi card by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun himself. A premature leak of “white paper” material followed, which is a rather awkward move in itself, although nvidia isn’t exactly new to the concept of “paper launch"…
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