GeForce GTX 480M: AVADirect’s W880CU Is Packing The Heat

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With the launch of its GeForce GTX 480M, Nvidia’s Fermi architecture takes center stage in high-end gaming notebooks. But is the notoriously-hot GPU able to compete against AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 5870? AVADirect gives us the answer with its new W880CU.

Benchmark Results: Crysis

Our desktop tests have shown that Crysis is essentially GPU-bound by anything less than a Radeon HD 5870 graphics card. How will the GeForce GTX 480M stand up?

While the GeForce GTX 480M is significantly faster than any other single-GPU mobile solution, its still “only” fast enough to play at high detail levels smoothly when the display resolution is dropped to 1280x720.

The use of Very High detail levels in Crysis should be reserved exclusively to desktop gaming systems.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.