Geforce GTX 480 VS HD5970 Benchmark test review

Finally the official Nvidia GTX480 benchmark tests is out in the net on hexus.com web site, so I want to share with you some of the benchmark pictures showing the Tests results between the GTX480 , GTX 480 SLI ,GTX 295 , GTX 285 , GTX 275 and the radeon HD 5970 , radeon HD 5870 ,radeon HD5870 radeon HD5850.

Lets begin with the specifications and features of the two new graphic cards the ATI Radeon HD 5970 and the Nvidia GTX480 .

Nvidia GTX480

 

Nvidia GTX480 Specifications:

GPU Engine Specs:

CUDA Cores GPUs	480 Single
Graphics Clock (MHz)	700 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1401 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	42

Memory Specs:

Memory Clock (MHz)	1848
Standard Memory Config	1536 MB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width	384-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	177.4

The NVIDIA GF100 GPU:

infos about the New GF100 chip :

The GeForce 400 Series is a family of graphics cards being developed by Nvidia but was delayed and instead released in March 26, 2010. Nvidia claimed that the GeForce 400 Series "will mark a milestone in the history of gaming." originally slated for production in November 2009,

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 features:
The first products from the GeForce 400 series were launched on March 26, 2010

, starting with the GTX 480 and GTX 470. The GTX 480 is the highest-end model from the GTX 400 series and comes with 480 CUDA cores, a 700 MHz core clock speed, 1401 MHz shader clock and 1.5 GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX 480 is roughly 10% faster than ATI's HD 5870 and launched with a price tag of US$499

The GTX 470 comes with a lower 448 CUDA cores, 607 MHz core clock, 1215 MHz shader clock and 1.25 GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX 470 is around 10% faster than the HD 5850 and launched for price of US$349. Both these cards are the first Nvidia graphics cards to support Direct3D 11.

• Tear it up. Gamers want the fastest GPU on the market and GeForce GTX 480 sets the new standard. Its next-generation architecture delivers unprecedented gaming performance at maximum resolution and quality settings, even on the latest DirectX 11 titles.
• On average, 27 percent faster performance than any GPU on the market in newer DX11 applicationsⁱ. At 19x12 4xAA/16xAF resolution, the GTX 480 is 61 percent faster in Metro 2033, 89 percent faster in Unigine Heaven v2, and 29 percent faster in Battleforge than the closest competitive product.

• Dial it up. The new NVIDIA^® PolyMorph Engine, a scalable geometry processing engine built from the ground up for DirectX 11 tessellation, enables incredibly detailed game characters and terrain with blazing performance. In addition, high-speed 32x anti-aliasing smoothes edges for top-notch visual quality.

• The GTX 480 is also the world’s first consumer GPU to enable interactive ray tracing for ultra photo-realistic scenes.
• Scale it up. New NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Surround technology expands the gaming real estate across three monitors in full stereoscopic 3D – making for a truly immersive gaming experience.ⁱⁱ

• Combined with NVIDIA 3D Vision wireless active shutter glasses, 3D Vision Surround technology lets you feel like you’re in the game
• Capable of rendering more than 746M pixels/second at full HD 1080p for a mind-blowing, 5760x1080 gaming experience.
• Advanced NVIDIA software automatically converts more than 400 games to stereoscopic 3D without the need for special game patches.
• Get a complete view of the battlefield in real-time strategy games.
• Manage inventory windows and quest logs, and track your party in your favorite MMORPGs.
• See your enemy’s movement quicker and react first in first-person-shooters.
• Buckle yourself into the driver seat of your favorite racing game and be immersed in the action.
• Watch Blu-ray 3D movies, view 3D photographs, or stream 3D content over the Web.

• Blow it up. NVIDIA PhysX^® technology brings games to life with dynamic, interactive environments.
• Two times the PhysX technology performance over prior generation GPUs for dynamic game effects, such as turbulence, fluids and smoke.
• New NVIDIA^® GigaThreadTM scheduler allows up to 10-times faster switching between graphics and physics processing, enabling more complex effects to be rendered in real time.

• Open it up. Next-generation CUDA™ architecture unleashes the computational power of the GPU to tackle the most intensive multimedia applications
• World’s most open computing platform, with complete language and API support, including CUDA C/C++, DirectCompute, OpenCL, Java, Python, and Fortran for the broadest compatibility with GPU-accelerated applications.
• Full support for GPU computing under Microsoft Windows 7.

HD 5970

The ATI radeon HD 5970 is a dual GPU graphic card based on HD 5870 so its dual HD 5870 on a single PCB card and it worth about 600$ , this really not a big deal as you can get tow crossfire cards for sub 500$ , keep in mind that anyone can receive the HD 5870 from ebay for only 249$ so think again if you want this 600$ piece.

 

HD 5970 PCB

HD 5970 Specifications:

• Engine clock speed: 725 MHz 
• Dual GPUs
• Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 294 Watts
• Idle board power: 51 Watts

As you can see in these benchmarks results the HD5970 from ATI beat the new GTX 480 from Nvidia , but keep in mind that the ATI HD5970 is a dual GPU and the new GTX480 is a single GPU , so lets just wait the next Nvidia dual GPU GTX400 serie , may be the GTX 490 .

Overclocking test result :

"increase the fan-speed to 80 per cent (<4,000rpm) and then used EVGA's Precision tool to force up the clocks. From the default 700MHz/1,400MHz/3,698MHz clockings for core, shader and memory, respectively, we hit 800MHz/1,600MHz/ 4,224MHz, representing a 14 per cent increase over stock. System-wide power-draw increases from a peak 475W to 525W.

Looking a the 2,560x1,600 results, Far Cry 2 (8x AA) performance rose from 54.91fps to 61.3fps and DiRT 2 DX11 from 50.69fps to 56.78fps"

full rev.

update: nVidia is likely to be showing its most important partners a very serious piece of new kit, The GTX490 Dual GPU.