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: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat

The latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. benchmark runs both DX11 and DX10 hardware in native mode, requiring us to once again test DX11 mobile solutions twice.

The GeForce GTX 480M beats every mobile competitor at all resolutions in DX10 mode when using the above quality settings, and still manages to outpace the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 in DX11 mode.

With minimum frame rates far lower than the averages above, no mobile solution is really adequate for playing this demanding title at its highest quality settings.

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.