Although the Nvidia GeForce 400 series has been tabu for about 2 months now, IT'd seem the jury is inactive out connected whether or not the series is a success. Some will tell you the GeForce GTX 480 is a mogul-hungry expensive GPU that failing to deliver, while others claim IT lived up to the expectations A the world's fastest single GPU nontextual matter card and that great power consumption figures are for sissies.

While we flavor the truth might lie somewhere in the middle, it is time to take another view the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470 vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850 comparison.

The GeForce 400 series, especially the GeForce GTX 480, is a serious piece of ironware that at least in writing should leave the Radeon HD 5870 dead in the water. Our first go at this board revealed that while it was priced ~20% higher than the Radeon HD 5870, on the average we exclusive saw a 16% execution increase based on the dozen games included in our benchmarking phase. Peradventure Thomas More in hand than that, we found that when placed under full warhead the GeForce GTX 480 used-up ~30% more tycoo, while at the same time information technology unsuccessful to send us deaf.

When wrapping finished our freehand GeForce GTX 480 review ii months ago we had this to allege...

"The GeForce GTX 480 is secured, but given the extra time Nvidia had to work connected the card and tweak it to perfection, we would have at any rate expected to answer without the heat/power compromises. As drivers get on these Fermi-based graphics card game will potential become yet faster, but we may also indicate Nvidia revises its pricing strategy, which could make or break sales once the cards become ready next calendar month."

It would appear that time is now A Nvidia released the 257 Beta device driver revise a couple of weeks ago. Nvidia claims these drivers provide significant operation improvements crossways the control board for the GeForce GTX 400 series. In the 8 weeks since releasing the GeForce GTX 400 serial AMD has also milled their Catalyst drivers and the current 10.5 version seems very solid.

Another reason why we wish to revisit this high-end graphics card conflict is to settle a belief of green squad fans that the GeForce GTX 480 is far select to the Radeon HD 5870 when measurement minimum frames per second. This is an interesting disputation as the average fps results did not hint a huge difference in minimum frame plac performance when we last tested, though information technology could make up possible, and therefore we wanted to find out if this was true or not.

However, bu display the flat minimum frame rates is not enough considering that this could be the leave of something else going on within the system that causes a jiffy drop in performance. Therefore we cause recorded a frames per second timeline to reveal just how oftentimes the carrying into action drops and for how long. Shiny modern graphs coming your way, read on...