Nvidia Benchmarks GTX 480 Against Radeon 5870
Nvidia shows its tessellation muscle against ATI's Radeon HD 5870. Interestingly enough, the ATI part hangs on fairly well until Fermi pulls ahead with its hardware tessellation.
Nvidia's GF100/Fermi GPUs, the GTX 470 and GTX 480, will be officially launched later this month on March 26. Until then, we're being teased by unofficial board shots and unverified benchmarks.
Today, however, we bring to you something completely official: a benchmark demo straight from Nvidia that compares the upcoming GeForce GTX 480 and the ATI Radeon 5870.
While Nvidia doesn't put the two video cards up against our usual battery of tests, it does chart the two in an demo that leans on hardware tessellation. With tessellation demands piled on, the GeForce GTX 480 performs significantly better. Other times, however, it seems that the Radeon 5870's performance will be on par with Nvidia's upcoming high-end GPU.
Until developers take advantage of hardware accelerated tessellation however, the 5870 still gives a GTX 480 incredible competition for being over six months old.
See the video below for more.
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It won't stand a chance against the 5970 by the looks of it.
glad i got my 2x 5770's fermi isnt looking to impressive so far
Vendor-supplied benchmarks? Awesome!
/sarcasm
Considering the 5xxx refresh or 6xxx series that is coming out h2, this isn't to great for nvidia.
Wow ati holds its ground. I guess i wont be changing my 5970 any time soon.
yeah but nvidia 480 will cost you a kidney
Vendor-supplied benchmarks? Awesome!/sarcasm
It's nvidia, they've never lied or used smoke and mirrors before!
/sarcasm
Closed benchmark done by the competitor without showing the actual settings before running. Yep, totally reliable.
erm now /sarcasm
Until its done by a 3rd party... who knows what the real performance is.
Besides, the newer GF cards are more for computations than 3D gaming.
Didn't this exact same article come out a week ago? O_o
Nvidia > ATI.
The end.
Fail the 5970 seems to blow them and I've heard of 6XXX series from ATI
This is looking pretty bad.
If based off closed benchmarks we think the 480 is screwed, the 480 is really screwed.
Nvidia > ATI.The end.
lolno
At last a Benchmark! A very small and selective one but still a benchmark.
I'm pondering two 5830's, but only cuz I know the GTX 470/80 will be $$$. I'll wait for the already planned Fermi refresh later this year. The 5000 series is built off RV780. GF100 is 100% new. Remember Barcelona? Or R600?
How about Nvidia power consumption? I want to know that too besides performance.
Fail the 5970 seems to blow them and I've heard of 6XXX series from ATI
AMD has nothing new til 2011. Check their 2010 roadmap.
How about Nvidia power consumption? I want to know that too besides performance.
GTX 470 - ~220w
GTX 480 - ~300w
What do you expect from 3 billion transistors though.
I am waiting for 5890
The one thing they don't say is how much power a GTX 480 actually consumes... if what Semiaccurate has been saying is correct, and they seem to have been right in their last articles, then the GTX 480 consumes so much power that they won't be able to build one using two chips, because that would largely exceed the 300w PCIe certification limit, which means the 5970 will have no competition.
Also, from what's being said - and shown, the GTX 480 will need a power supply with a single 12v rail giving 42A. You will clearly have to check you PSU carefully to see if it delivers those 42A over a single rail or something like 18A over two or three rails.
This looks like the competition will be closer than expected. Good news because competition means lower prices.
It wasn't so long ago Nvidia had a clear lead with it's 8800GTX.
Or the 6800GT before that.
So, until the real product comes out, I have no reason to doubt Nvidia and I'll look at the bright side, for now..
Other factors like being able to do GPU computing integrated in Visual Studio sounds very interesting.
I'm still waiting for GPU accelerated (OpenCL or DirectCompute) video trans-coding that really is much better that the CPU trans-coding. This may take another 4 years...
ati is going to lower their prices to the point were nvidia can't make any profit and will have to sell their cards at a loss.
The guy giving the demonstration said the system was nt overclocked in any way.
The i7-960 stock speed is 3.2GHz.
What do you see in CPU-Z at 0:54?
ati is going to lower their prices to the point were nvidia can't make any profit and will have to sell their cards at a loss.
I doubt that because if you use a bit of common sense AMD would lose money also for selling their GPU's at a lower price. AMD's prices are low at the moment, anything lower is considered a loss.
Nvidia is just making fail after fail. Their new cards run hot, take up lots of power, and barely make it over the 5870s. I also highly doubt that Nvidia left as much room for overclocking as ATI did on the 5970. ATI pwns.
oh god am i excited finally i can get my 300 dollar 5870!
soon soon...
That's nice, so WHERE IS ME FERMI?
The guy giving the demonstration said the system was nt overclocked in any way.The i7-960 stock speed is 3.2GHz.What do you see in CPU-Z at 0:54?
Turbo? The i7 960 can turbo up to 3.46Ghz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37151
looks like nvidia fail this time
but i bet they'll have a super fast refresh before the end of the summer
looks like nvidia fail this timebut i bet they'll have a super fast refresh before the end of the summer
How so? You can clearly see in the graph that it is faster