GTX 480 Versus 5970 (Crysis and Unigine Heaven)

[Dunceiam]

GTX 480 SC Vs HD 5970 OC Crysis Showdown

GTX 480 SC Vs HD 5970 OC Heaven V2.0 Showdown

Single GTX 480 Superclocked versus 5970 overclocked.

[Andy]

it seems the fermi gets battered in the non DX11 elements, the Unigine Heaven demo is absolutely riddled with tessellation in every nook & cranny possible, I doubt any game would be this DX11 intense

[raserei408]

Well, not yet. But you're right; by the time anything that intensive comes out Fermi will be at least a generation obsolete.

Then again, it also takes a lot less of a hit in AA than does the 5000 series.

[Dunceiam]

I'd just like to emphasize something, that was a 5970 not a 5870 versus a single 480.

[lamborghiniV12]

Damn the 480 is more power hungry then a dual GPU card

[Dunceiam]

2:15

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Benchmarks Bad Company 2, Cyrsis, 3DMark06, Temperatures & Noise

[mattering]

I'm in a dilemma....5870 or GTX480? D:

[raserei408]

I still say stick with a 5870, but if the performance of a 480 is worth the drawbacks, go for it by all means. However, you might wait until some manufacturers release custom coolers.

[Elton]

The GTX 480 + a Water Cooler + MSI afterburner set to 1.5v = a GTX480 that's extremely capable and performs incredibly well, of course it's power consumption hits about 250w, but it gets about 20% performance and about 150hz more on the core alone.

Read it on Guru3D, it was quite impressive, makes me think if they were able to get a revision of it and push the clocks, it would be damned impressive.

[Andy]

the reference GTX480 is already drawing 250w

[Elton]

the reference GTX480 is already drawing 250w

Is it?

[lamborghiniV12]

Yup if you were to increase the Vcore it will probally require about 280+ watts Look at this 5870 hitting 5.2Ghz on the memory : http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2948/sapphire_radeon_hd_5870_1gb_overclocking_tests/index.html

[Andy]

the reference GTX480 is already drawing 250w

Is it?

[Elton]

Oh, well that's max TDP, the way I saw it, it averaged at about 220w, it's not at 100% all the time ya know.

[Andy]

I'm guessing the 5870 would average around 100w (15w idle draw)