ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 SLI

Hayder_Master · Apr 14, 2010

great w1zzard you did it so quickly, amazing review

LAN_deRf_HA · Apr 14, 2010

So will anybody be reviewing 4 way 480 sli and sapphire/asus/xfx's special 5970s in CF? Would be neat to know which to pick for "ultimate" builds.

wahdangun · Apr 14, 2010

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

No, just the cards.

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

WTF, 600 watt for SLI ? wew and 600 watt of heat,

BTW, are you use DX 11 setting in DX 11 title ?

W1zzard · Apr 14, 2010

wahdangun said:
WTF, 600 watt for SLI ? wew and 600 watt of heat,

BTW, are you use DX 11 setting in DX 11 title ?

metro and unigine were running in dx11 mode

poo417 · Apr 14, 2010

NIce review Wizz. Any news yet on getting the surround drivers? We really need to see how these work with 5760 x 1080/1200 +

Then hopwfully you will get hold of the 4gb 5970 as well.

Mr McC · Apr 14, 2010

Eva01Master said:
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.

Achieving maximum perfomance whilst ignoring all other concerns, such as heat and noise, doesn't seem too smart to me; however, if performance is to be judged in isolation, why wouldn't the "SMARTEST of them all" simply crossfire 5970's?

Edit: nice review.

Lionheart · Apr 14, 2010

These cards are powerful beats, but the heat and power consumption ruins it, also the price, gonna wait for the yields to get better and maybe some GTX 485 SLI action :toast:

Wile E · Apr 14, 2010

Mr McC said:
Achieving maximum perfomance whilst ignoring all other concerns, such as heat and noise, doesn't seem too smart to me; however, if performance is to be judged in isolation, why wouldn't the "SMARTEST of them all" simply crossfire 5970's?

Edit: nice review.

Rumor has it that 480 can do Quad SLI. If not, we know it can do Tri SLI. I wonder what wins then 3xFermi or 2x 5970?

wahdangun · Apr 14, 2010

Wile E said:
Rumor has it that 480 can do Quad SLI. If not, we know it can do Tri SLI. I wonder what wins then 3xFermi or 2x 5970?

maybe that's was just evga exclusive

hat · Apr 14, 2010

Maybe the "will it max Crysis?" jokes will finally start to end :rolleyes:

thanks for a great review, w1zz

claylomax · Apr 14, 2010

That's a nice review and must have been a expensive one by the looks of it; I don't know how much electricity costs in Stuttgart, but I'm sure it can't be cheap. :laugh:

Andrew · Apr 14, 2010

Nice review...

What would be the performance with 3 monitors @ 5760x1080?

thanks

mdm-adph · Apr 14, 2010

erocker said:
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.

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

You know, I'm just going to go ahead and start using the snark mark ("~"), because it seems that the Science of Sarcasm is already a lost art. :wtf:

That okay with everyone?~

nick11 · Apr 14, 2010

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_5970_CrossFire/7.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_480_SLI/7.html

•All video card results were obtained on this exact system with the exact same configuration.
•All games were set to their highest quality setting

both reviews have the exact same system setups but there is a huge difference in results except for windows vista 32bit/sp2 vs windows 7 64bit :confused:

which review do we trust Mr.Wizzard?

kid41212003 · Apr 14, 2010

Newer drivers I suppose.

HalfAHertz · Apr 14, 2010

kid41212003 said:
Newer drivers I suppose.

I thought that was supposed to increase performance

kid41212003 · Apr 14, 2010

Yeah, I missed that after switching tabs so quickly.

Anyway, do you find the HD5970 is quite weird in that benchmark? It's scale 2.3x compare to a single card, even though with lower clock speed. I haven't seen anything like that in before.

W1zzard · Apr 14, 2010

different in-game settings, unless the specs table is EXACTLY the same, dont compare old and new reviews

Hayder_Master · Apr 14, 2010

i im very shocked cuz i see first 200% SLI performance

steelkane · Apr 14, 2010

That was An Awesome review, the power & heat would be fine with me to have that kind of performance with a 30" panel, If one can buy two card, 30" panel, the PSU & all the other hardware to make it run smooth.. why would they be worried about heat when water blocks are available.

nick11 · Apr 14, 2010

W1zzard said:
different in-game settings, unless the specs table is EXACTLY the same, dont compare old and new reviews

•All video card results were obtained on this exact system with the exact same configuration.
•All games were set to their highest quality setting

That's what you wrote in both reviews.. so which one is correct and which is wrong or did you miss something, the fps are just abnormally different, like 20fps+ difference in some cases lol.. go back and see, your setups are 100% the same except for the OS

PopcornMachine · Apr 14, 2010

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

Yeah...the results of Folding with GTX 480s:

Good News: We cured all diseases known to mankind!

Bad News: Ensured the doom of all life on planet Earth.

ty_ger · Apr 14, 2010

PopcornMachine said:
Yeah...the results of Folding with GTX 480s:

Good News: We cured all diseases known to mankind!

Bad News: Ensured the doom of all life on planet Earth.

The GTX 480 doesn't even support Folding yet. NVIDIA is supposed to be working on a revision which will allow the card to support Folding within a couple of weeks.

Fourstaff · Apr 14, 2010

PopcornMachine said:
Yeah...the results of Folding with GTX 480s:

Good News: We cured all diseases known to mankind!

Bad News: Ensured the doom of all life on planet Earth.

It is a good tradeoff: Imagine a world without diseases and idiots. Ahhh, bliss.

Update: Its supposed to read like this: GTX480 will cure all the diseases by wiping out mankind. Without man, there is nothing to infect

WarEagleAU · Apr 14, 2010

Good one Popcorn and Fourstaff. Looks like SLI/Xfire scaling is finally paying off. Some of the highest numbers yet. Thanks for that speedy review W1zz!

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