ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 SLI

[I.R.A]_FBi · Apr 13, 2010

Fourstaff said:
Bad move, he will just pack up and leave, leaving us with no more reviews

sarcasm?

W1zzard · Apr 13, 2010

fatguy1992 said:
I think a 4.2GHz-4.4GHz bloomfield or guftown would do just fine. But i'm sure that would be heaps of work to re-test with so many gpus.

send me a gulftown, i'll use it in the next round of reviews, otherwise i have to use what most people can afford

Fourstaff · Apr 13, 2010

[I.R.A]_FBi said:
sarcasm?

Indeed

erocker · Apr 13, 2010

mdm-adph said:
WIN: Nvidia has finally improved SLI-scaling to a level where it's pretty damn respectable -- I got to give them props for that.

FAIL: Two GTX 480's are only 13% faster than a 5970, yet they draw nearly twice the power. There's something really wrong with that. What the hell is a dual-GTX 480 going to look like? Three PCB's, one just for the power circuits? Is it even possible?

Yeah, Wiz, your puny 3.8GHz Core i7 is making other review sites laugh at us -- we demand a LN2-cooled 7.0GHz PhenomII right away.

fatguy1992 said:
I think a 4.2GHz-4.4GHz bloomfield or guftown would do just fine. But i'm sure that would be heaps of work to re-test with so many gpus.

I disagree. A 980X is not a gamer's CPU. Considering most of the review content is based on games, I would rather see a more mainstream CPU do the work and face it, two of these cards blows everything else away with even a "puny" i7. I for one am glad the review is geared towards the gamer and no those looking to extend their e-peen. I would love two of these cards. Gaming with more eye candy on than I even care to use would be very fun.

W1zzard · Apr 13, 2010

sorry about that cf scaling confusion, bta helped with the conclusion and got the wrong numbers. i fixed it now

douglatins · Apr 13, 2010

Temperatures look fine, what happened? Winter with open windows? 100% fan cycle? Or maybe you summoned blizzard on the room?

xkche · Apr 13, 2010

W1zzard said:
sorry about that cf scaling confusion, bta helped with the conclusion and got the wrong numbers. i fixed it now

tnks!

I like the scaling... over 50% in 1920x1200! is very good!

I wait for a GTX460 :cool:

HalfAHertz · Apr 13, 2010

mdm-adph said:
WIN: Nvidia has finally improved SLI-scaling to a level where it's pretty damn respectable -- I got to give them props for that.

FAIL: Two GTX 480's are only 13% faster than a 5970, yet they draw nearly twice the power. There's something really wrong with that. What the hell is a dual-GTX 480 going to look like? Three PCB's, one just for the power circuits? Is it even possible?

Yeah, Wiz, your puny 3.8GHz Core i7 is making other review sites laugh at us -- we demand a LN2-cooled 7.0GHz PhenomII right away.

It's 18% u nub!

25x16 is the only resolution you should be concerned with when evaluating something of this magnitude...

Sasqui · Apr 13, 2010

Wow, the performance and power draw, both jaw dropping.

Didn't know TPU Testing Labs were located in Springfield, LOL

LAN_deRf_HA · Apr 13, 2010

To put it all in perspective...

5870 CF

480 SLI

Scaling seems about even between brands.

Delta6326 · Apr 13, 2010

what? ATI?

erixx · Apr 13, 2010

haha you outbid him

fritoking · Apr 13, 2010

man im not a "high powered " user..but i bet that those cards pull more juice than my quad and tri core systems combined...wtf....i would hate that electric bill,and trying to cool the room they are in. its hard enough to cool this room w/ a tri core..quad and a dual.......and the arcade.

human_error · Apr 14, 2010

excellent review as always w1zz, i've been loking forward to your SLi review

One thing i am dissapointed about is that the sli scaling isn't as good as i was led to believe on other sites (i dont bother looking at numbers there, just read their summaries)- i was hoping for 70%+ scaling (i even read nearly 100% scaling on some reports). Guess i'll have to wait longer for sli and crossfire to offer the performance jumps i would like...

OneCool · Apr 14, 2010

Nice review!

Monstrous cards.

Those power numbers are just wrong :rolleyes:

crow1001 · Apr 14, 2010

So the smart man goes with 2x 5870's, or the smarter man does 2x 5850's and clocks them, fanboys go down the 480 SLI path.

And great review. :toast:

Trub has his TRI SLI heaven 2 bench up, eye watering wattage used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMJkVQiq5c

Soylent Joe · Apr 14, 2010

It maxed out Crysis at all but one resolution. The beast has been slain at last! :rockout:

dinmaster · Apr 14, 2010

great review! for a single monitor. I got to wait longer to see the scaling and performance of multi monitors (3 displays) and perhaps where ati or nvidia really kick ass.

overclocking101 · Apr 14, 2010

nice review w1zz!! thanks! I think its better to do the review the way you did it simply because not everyone everclocks their i7's to 4ghz+ in fact a lot dont. more people own prebuilt dells etc that dont oc with i7's than system builders, he tageted the review to the masses not just one group. and sli scaling is better with the GTX480's nice! the CF scaling is high but upon release it was terrible, just think this is an unoptimized setup when newer drivers come and stuff like that sli scaling will be better and eventually out do ati all together I think.

Zubasa · Apr 14, 2010

douglatins said:
Temperatures look fine, what happened? Winter with open windows? 100% fan cycle? Or maybe you summoned blizzard on the room?

Mini-Jet digivolved into Jumbo-Jet

It would be nice to include noise and 5870CF in the review W1z. :ohwell:

ShRoOmAlIsTiC · Apr 14, 2010

W1zzard said:
send me a gulftown, i'll use it in the next round of reviews, otherwise i have to use what most people can afford

haha, then why you using the 480 in sli! Most people cant afford that either. J/k wizz! Love ya man and great review as usual.

johnspack · Apr 14, 2010

Gawd, I'm just getting ready to sli gtx260s, these must be a blast!

btarunr · Apr 14, 2010

mdm-adph said:
FAIL: Two GTX 480's are only 13% faster than a 5970, yet they draw nearly twice the power.

Over twice the power. Remember a single GTX 480 draws more than a single HD 5970.

caleb said:
Also I am wondering what was max power consumption of the whole system ?

No, just the cards.

mdm-adph said:
Yeah, Wiz, your puny 3.8GHz Core i7 is making other review sites laugh at us -- we demand a LN2-cooled 7.0GHz PhenomII right away.

Phenom II will make other sites laugh at us, whatever the GHz. Core i7 "Bloomfield" at 3.8 GHz can't bottleneck anything.

Eva01Master · Apr 14, 2010

crow1001 said:
So the smart man goes with 2x 5870's, or the smarter man does 2x 5850's and clocks them, fanboys go down the 480 SLI path.

And great review.

Trub has his TRI SLI heaven 2 bench up, eye watering wattage used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMJkVQiq5c

The Smart man goes with 2 x 5870
The Smarter one goes with 2 x 5850
And the SMARTEST of them all have a good enough work to go with 2 x GTX480, doesn't care about power draw, uses Watercool to get them chilly and silent and then he enjoys the PhysX and 3D Vision surround.

Steevo · Apr 14, 2010

Physx for all 16 games that use it, and the insane power bill from running these with F@H for any length of time.

Impressive review, but holy space heater batman. What are they trying to do, melt the polar ice caps this year hoping the flood waters will cool Fermi?

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