Hardware Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1,536MB Review

I can't see how f@h with one of these could be attractive at the moment, the heat output 24/7 plus the power draw outweigh the GPGPU improvement. 2x GTX 250s would be more practical & probably cheaper overall including electricity for the same PPD.

Stanford are in bed with Nvidia so the 2nd phase GPU3 client based on OpenCL will be optimized for the Fermi architecture. Even then water cooling will most likely be a necessity making it too specialized.

 

Yeah I know, it's very impressive and you could even use the top of the cooler as a pan and cook some dinner while you game, you could put two of em in SLI and hey, YOU GOT A TOASTER!

Now really, tell me what's impressive if it barely holds up against 5870 and 4870X2 and costs 25% more than a 5870. I'm really disappointed since I was expecting a price war like many people said, I don't think ATI's are correctly priced since the 4870X2 used to cost like 350$ and the 5870 costs 400$ and is probably TONS cheaper to produce than a 4870X2. But ATI is on the lead this time around.

FERMI dropped into the game 6 months late, they're hotter, more expensive, consume more energy and hardly perform any better than the 5XXX series. (BTW: zipzoomfly.com has the EVGA Superclocked at 650$, what a waste of money)

 

lol yeah oh hey look here's nvidias target market

 

Anyone else seen this yet?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1258/15/

Attaching a second monitor bumps the idle temp to 90C and uses 80W extra power

 

If that's running at 94C in spring what will it become in an non air conditioned room in the summer?

 

Ye posted the details in another thread.

So much for them marketing 3D vision surround with 3 monitors if one of your cards is going to be idling at 90c trying to power 2 monitors, completely hopeless.

 

I'm beginning to wonder, at what temperature does your normal off-the-shelf PCB start to melt?

 

My guess would be double that 200c? The real problem i see is the possible reliability issues with FERMI. I suppose the better warranties that Nvidia AIB partners offer opposed to ATI AIB partners offer will no come in very handy.
Also this whole FERMI is great for folding is rubbish. Folders usually look for cards that cheap but are capable of producing a fair amount of points and are less power hungry, ie gts250 or second hand gtx295 etc. FERMI produces good point but thats all.
Also gfx cards for folding are much less reliable than using cpus ie a corei7 and the Bigadv work units.

 

Not surprising the 480 beats ATi in BFBC2 as ATi's support for that game is abysmal.

My HD 4870x2 has all sorts of shoddy graphics flashing issues. Cat 10.1,2 and 3's

 

Wait for Fermi eh? Well, how did THAT turn out

 

Wait for Fermi-Rev: B
LOL.

 

What a disappointment. Hopefully with better driver releases the cards will be more of a contender, but those temps and that power draw.... Shocking.

 

i wonder if all the nvidia fanbois are gonna crawl back under their rocks.

Charlie was pretty much spot-on with this fermi stuff, i for one will be talking his articles a bit more seriously in future.

 

I was waiting for someone to post that.

 

Has anyone watched the videos of the cards on the HardOCP review? Ignoring the review itself the videos show just how load Fermi gets (not to mention how much power they use).

BAsed on the all the reviews I have read the results seem to be all over the place. The other thing I can gather is that Fermi:

- Is roughly 10-15% faster than the HD5870 across the board
- Uses roughly 100w more power under load and 30-50w more at idle
- Runs at roughly 90-95 degrees when under load (and very loud to boot)
- Costs roughly £125 MORE than a HD5870 and works out the same price as HD5850 CF.
- Its a folding monster but considering its power draw and temps you would have to be mad to run even a single one 24/7.

All in all a big dissapointment. Whilst the performance is great in isolation it falters when compared to its direct competition, which of course is the important test.

 

Saw those hardocp noise videos, it IS loud although they do say thats the same as a dual gpu card ala 5970/4870x2. Whats mor amazing is with a powerful fan and probably the most elaborate and comprehensive heat sink ever seen on a card ever it still makes 94 centigrade load temps. Thats, fierce.....

 

If ATI pulls a 4890 style speedbin of the 5870, Nvidia will be crying rivers!

Given the heat of the Fermi, we can be sure that it hasn't won any lucrative console contracts, unless they bundle a LN2 pot with every console, now little Johnny, what did I tell you about cryogenically freezing the cat!

 

Running Dirt2, the results seems to be unrealible because of an incorrect game's profile of GTXs. When you run the demo, the GTX480 and GTX470 drop back to dx9 mode.

proof:


source:
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/23/nvidia-bends-definition-honesty-gtx480-benches/

 

Did Bit-Tech Experience this? Why didn't you show us the anti-aliasing results with Stalker Call of Pripyat? The expected results are that AMD cards take it just fine while performance of the 480 goes down the toilet. What gives?