Testing Methodology and System Setup
NVIDIA provided us with an early look at new version of GPU-Z that properly recognizes and reports on the GF100-based parts we were testing.
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 470
It appears that all of our specs are validated and verified here. On to the testing!
There was quite a debate between NVIDIA and AMD on what should be compared here in our review. NVIDIA was pushing the fact that the GTX 480 and GTX 470 are both single-GPU graphics cards and should be compared with the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 respectively. AMD said that the power consumption results pushed the GTX 480 into a different segment than the HD 5870 and that it should be the direct competition of the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970. For us, I decided to look at price.
The estimated pricing of our comparison cards looks like this:
- GeForce GTX 480 – $499
- GeForce GTX 470 – $349
- Radeon HD 5970 – $699 (if you can find them)
- Radeon HD 5870 – $429
- Radeon HD 5850 – $299
I also took this opportunity to add in a couple of DirectX 11 gaming titles to our test suite. Now that both NVIDIA and AMD have DX11 options available we can do a real apples-to-apples comparison that we just couldn’t do before. Towards the end of our benchmarks be on the lookout for both DiRT 2 and the new Metro 2033 pages.
- Testing Configuration
- ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 + nForce 200
- Intel Core i7-965 @ 3.33 GHz
- 3 x 2GB Corsair DDR3-1333 MHz
- Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD
- PC Power and Cooling 1200w Turbo Cool PSU
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I think that the most fascinating development is how they are able to control the computational mode on the GPU by modulating the level of detail on the fly. Therefore freeing processor power which might otherwise be locked into an unnecessary frame rate setting.
Jim
Thanks for this great review.
Thanks for this great review. I was not sure which one to buy but thanks to this review i will go with GT 470.
Frank
gtx470 give error code43
gtx470 give error code43