Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480: Before And After A Year Of Driver Updates
Benchmark Results: 3DMark 11 (DX11)
Header Cell - Column 0 | Overall Score | Graphics Score | GT1 | GT2 | GT3 | GT4 |
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Performance Gain from 197.41 to 266.58 | 13.60% | 8.87% | 10.56% | 9.05% | 9.72% | 6.98% |
Compared to AMD, Nvidia's improvement in 3DMark 11 is particularly notable. Whereas the Radeon HD 5870 improved 2.5% since 3DMark 11 launched, the GeForce GTX 480 is approaching a 15% jump in the same short time. The jump in the graph above is indicative of roughly when the benchmark came out, suggesting Nvidia had work to do before the GF100 put its best face forward in 3DMark.
Nvidia and AMD demonstrate similar trends in that the GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 5870 both show the largest improvement in the GT1 test.
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-Fran- Heh, now it cooks my steaks 5 secs faster.Reply
Oh wait... I'm using a GT425M on my notebook... Damn!
Cheers! -
dragonsqrrl Impressive results to say the least... well, except for WOW. That has to be a bit of a disappointment for the people who care about that title. But otherwise quite remarkable performance optimizations from the driver team.Reply
I have to agree with the conclusion, due to the recent nature of the Fermi architecture it probably took both Nvidia and developers time to get used to the new hardware. It just wasn't well optimized upon launch. Although I think it's worth noting that it still managed to perform well even on those early drivers. -
ezodagrom In the World of Warcraft page instead of saying "Percent Gain from 197.41 to 266.58" it says "Percent Gain from 9.10 to 11.1". ;PReply -
acku 9512364 said:In the World of Warcraft page instead of saying "Percent Gain from 197.41 to 266.58" it says "Percent Gain from 9.10 to 11.1". ;P
Oops! My motto: Pobody's Nerfect. :kaola:
Fixed! -
gofasterstripes TBH it looks like good work from the green team. Cool, my 470 is getting bumped for freeReply
On second thoughts, maybe 'cool' is the wrong word.....
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