[eiren]

Originally Posted by jjgreenwood

scan's asus cards are going to system build customers first and not coming in very quickly. I have a 3xs system on order and have taken a POV card instead of an asus to try and speed up delivery. They are getting stock so keep checked, some gigabite cards were on the website for about 30mins the other day.

Scan said that Asus cards weren't being put into their system builds, so the first batch that arrives will go straight to the customer in the queue. They say they're expecting 40 in the first batch, but have no clue when they're actually going to arrive

[namuk]

Originally Posted by eiren

Wow, there's hardly any hit with high AA applied!

This is what makes me angry about the reviews that fail to test this properly. It's much more important to most people than running some old DX9 game at 200fps.

So impatient at the moment...

And keep Waffling on about Heat and Noise , like it is all new and never heard before,
i think some of the reviewers came from On-board Graphics to Review..

[Razor]

Originally Posted by eiren

Wow, there's hardly any hit with high AA applied!

This is what makes me angry about the reviews that fail to test this properly. It's much more important to most people than running some old DX9 game at 200fps.

So impatient at the moment...

I totally agree mate, I was getting very wound up at the amount of reviews that were benching with old games and running low levels of AA. Fermi seems to eat AA for breakfast.

[Razor]

A few shots of my EK GTX 480 block.

I will be installing it later this week.

[Razor]

A few more benchmarks, all in game settings on highest, gpu clocked to 825Mhz & memory at stock.


0x AA

8x AA

C16x QAA

16x QAA (Physx on highest)

C16x QAA

[jonneymendoza]

is their any point in benchmarking games that my 260gtx can handle at max AA/AF settings when im getting over 60fps on the above games?

Flog on arma 2 demo, GTA4 or crysis for some real numbers.

[chief barker]

Here's mine with 16x AA.

[wolvers]

^^Crikey!^^

Originally Posted by jonneymendoza

is their any point in benchmarking games that my 260gtx can handle at max AA/AF settings when im getting over 60fps on the above games?

Flog on arma 2 demo, GTA4 or crysis for some real numbers.

Yeah, come one Razor do some Crysis, Warhead and BC2.

[Gliese 581c]

Originally Posted by chief barker

Here's mine with 16x AA.

Is a 59xx series card a Fermi ? and in a Fermi owners thread ?

[Razor]

Originally Posted by jonneymendoza

is their any point in benchmarking games that my 260gtx can handle at max AA/AF settings when im getting over 60fps on the above games?

Flog on arma 2 demo, GTA4 or crysis for some real numbers.

I am going through all my benchmarks, patience Jonney boy. I have also already done GTAIV which is posted in this thread.

If you look at 8xAa and C16x QAA on street fighter you will see it only takes a 10 frame hit, this is why I am posting this up. To show benches with high levels and max levels of AA unlike the magazines which like to stick to 4xAA. I threw the 0xAA bench in for a laugh.

Originally Posted by chief barker

Here's mine with 16x AA.

A nice score but you have 3 gpus, to get that score and its only 16xAA and not C16x QAA. Still nice to see though. Cheers for posting mate.

Originally Posted by wolvers

^^Crikey!^^



Yeah, come one Razor do some Crysis, Warhead and BC2.

Has BC2 got a benchmark? Warhead benches coming up next.



One thing these benches dont show is how smooth the gameplay is. I really am loving this card. I also had a go of Batman in 3d last night. I must admit I am impressed with the 3d even if its using the coloured glasses. The colours are effected which is to be expected but it shows what can be done with 3d and gaming. I just wish they could get the shutter glasses working on 60Hz tv's as I would be buying some shutter specs asap.

[Razor]

1 gainward card in stock at ocuk if anyone wants it. Be quick though.

Gainward GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [426018336-1046] Graphics and Video NVIDIA GTX 400 Series

[wolvers]

Originally Posted by Razor

Has BC2 got a benchmark? Warhead benches coming up next.

No, but I guess you could bench it with fraps during the same part of the game as the review sites used.

Originally Posted by Razor

One thing these benches dont show is how smooth the gameplay is.

I noticed you've mentioned smoothness a couple of times. I'm assuming that's because you've come from the dual card that may of suffered from the micro stuttering that they can suffer from?

[Razor]

Originally Posted by wolvers

No, but I guess you could bench it with fraps during the same part of the game as the review sites used.



I noticed you've mentioned smoothness a couple of times. I'm assuming that's because you've come from the dual card that may of suffered from the micro stuttering that they can suffer from?

I am sure some of it was microstutter, but I did run my 4870X2 with one card disabled to test and some games still stuttered or werent as smooth. I also had my 4850 in my main rig for 3 weeks whilst my 4870 was sent away and this was also the same. I think MS does play a small part but I also think that some games just run better on nvidia and some games runs better on ati. So far I havent seen any stuttering on the 480 but I havent played as many games as I did on my 4870X2.

Another bonus is flickering textures which used to happen on BC2, this has completely gone. BC2 was getting to be a bit of nightmare to play on ATI both the 4850 and 4870X2 even with the new patch. I think this is more to do with drivers.

Lastly vsync is a god send, the menus in dirt 2 used to tear like a bitch but the main game was rock solid. Now the menus and full game are smooth.

[chief barker]

Originally Posted by Gliese 581c

Is a 59xx series card a Fermi ? and in a Fermi owners thread ?

No it isn't a Fermi, I just posted it as a bit of willy waving and to pee you off

[wolvers]

Naughty boy Chief.

[wolvers]

Originally Posted by Razor

I am sure some of it was microstutter, but I did run my 4870X2 with one card disabled to test and some games still stuttered or werent as smooth. I also had my 4850 in my main rig for 3 weeks whilst my 4870 was sent away and this was also the same. I think MS does play a small part but I also think that some games just run better on nvidia and some games runs better on ati. So far I havent seen any stuttering on the 480 but I havent played as many games as I did on my 4870X2.

Another bonus is flickering textures which used to happen on BC2, this has completely gone. BC2 was getting to be a bit of nightmare to play on ATI both the 4850 and 4870X2 even with the new patch. I think this is more to do with drivers.

Lastly vsync is a god send, the menus in dirt 2 used to tear like a bitch but the main game was rock solid. Now the menus and full game are smooth.

So just to do with having generally higher fps then. When you post the Crysis and Warhead results can you include the results from the 4870x2 if you still have them?

Can't say I've noticed flickering textures in BC2 , probably due to being running away from gvers all the time!

[gvers]

Originally Posted by wolvers

Can't say I've noticed flickering textures in BC2 , probably due to being running away from gvers all the time!

The 10.4 cat's fixed these. They were xfire only.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by wolvers

So just to do with having generally higher fps then. When you post the Crysis and Warhead results can you include the results from the 4870x2 if you still have them?

Can't say I've noticed flickering textures in BC2 , probably due to being running away from gvers all the time!

Originally Posted by gvers

The 10.4 cat's fixed these. They were xfire only.

10.4's didnt solve the flickering textures for me. It improved them but they were still there and I was using a 4850 at the time. :

[Pinky Floyd]

Neat, my 470 has arrived. Will have a play laters.

[gvers]

Originally Posted by Razor

10.4's didnt solve the flickering textures for me. It improved them but they were still there and I was using a 4850 at the time. :

Sorry should have been a bit more specific. They fixed them for the 5xxx cards I seem to remember now you mention that.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by gvers

Sorry should have been a bit more specific. They fixed them for the 5xxx cards I seem to remember now you mention that.

Buggers left out my cards.

[namuk]

Geforce GTX 480/470 with unmatched image quality in modern games - Fermi, GF100, Anti-Alasing, SSAA, Sparse Grid, DX11 - PC Games Hardware

Looks like this 480 Is the Mutts Nuts For PQ at moment ,
I remember when i Seen Supersampling with the 7800 cards for BF2 for first time ,
Love to see Bad Company 2 with 8X SGSSAA.. the game Looks class at moment maxed out ..
Even Just Cause 2, with all the Nvidia Added Features As well..

[UrbanT]

Guys, enough! Any further posts off topic will result in an infraction.

[eiren]

Scan have the Asus cards listed as expected today... maybe they might be telling the truth this time?

Everyone watch with me

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1536M...-DVI-mini-HDMI

[Razor]

Originally Posted by eiren

Scan have the Asus cards listed as expected today... maybe they might be telling the truth this time?

Everyone watch with me

Scan.co.uk: ENGTX480/2DI/1536MD5 - 1536MB Asus GTX 480, 40nm, 3696MHz GDDR5, GPU 700MHz, Shader 1401MHz, 480 Cores, 2 x DVI, mini HDMI

Deja vu

[namuk]

Originally Posted by Razor

Deja vu

Post some Bad Company 2 Screens up, need to See Pq ..

[Razor]

I did a benchmark using fraps for Bad Company 2 on I think level 2.

Settings: 32xCSAA @ 1080p and all settings on full, HBAO on and these are the results. The 480 was clocked to 825ghz and memory was left at stock.




Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
6310, 98904, 41, 87, 63.799




FPS
66
63
60
60
59
57
56
57
60
58
55
59
65
73
63
60
57
57
56
61
62
66
64
68
76
62
59
58
55
55
52
52
53
55
60
58
66
60
65
69
69
72
64
58
58
59
62
69
75
74
69
72
71
72
70
70
70
75
76
85
79
79
85
71
57
63
61
64
66
65
63
65
67
67
65
63
59
71
70
64
52
46
60
76
69
74
72
65
68
63
64
58
59
57
55
57
56
57




I will do some screen grabs later on.

[Deadringers]

dont know how demanding that game is but just with any modern game this: "32xCSAA" is just wow!

[Razor]

I was shocked when I saw what frame rates this was getting, especially at that level of AA. This card is an AA monster.

[Gliese 581c]

Razor, you got any benchmarks to compare yours to from these so called 'reviewers' that got the 480's when they were first released ?