[QUOTE="RageQuit4Life"][QUOTE="jhcho2"]
Hold your horses there dude, the GTX 480 is indeed, albeit questionably the best single gpu card in the market right now. But.....
Does is PAWN ATI? No. It's better but not by much compared to the HD5870. The HD5970 (dual gpu) came out about 6 months before the GTX480, and is still more powerful than the 480. It's not fair to say Nvidia pawned ATI when the best card in the market still belongs to ATI. And even then, the 480 doesn't exactly beat the 5870 in every game, only some. But the 480 is also more expensive, hotter, louder and more power hungry.
pimpog
I actually found this really funny, because 5870 is a crap card when its up to GTX 480. GTX 480 always beat 5870 ALMOST all game include many DX11 benchmarks. For example GTX 480 beat 5870 easily with Uni Heaven 2.0 because ATi don't know how to make cards to handle the DX11 games, but they barely did. Seemly ATi finally learn new ability like pokemon, to create the DX11 cards in right way with latest cards (6000s series).
How is the 5870 a crap card is only a little slower than the gtx 480 and even faster in some games ?? The only place the 480 pulls away is in tessellation cause ati had the feature from dx9 but no game used it. Now with dx 11 the feature is finally being used so amd upgraded it to the 2nd gen on the 6000 series. When the 5000 series came out dx11 was not even out and no games used tessellation at all. Nvidia pushed this feature hard cause that was the only place that ati was weak. Now that problem has been addressed on the 6000 series and nvidia is slashing prices on the 460/70 cards. When the 6900 series drop in a couple weeks nvidia will be slashing prices on the 480/580 cards as well. Nvidia is 6 months behind amd and is getting beat out the gate yet again. So to take the edge off they put out this 580 but really it is just a old part repacked with a new name. Yeah it going to be faster but you would have to be a fool to get this card when the amd 6900 cards will be here soon. Sorry nvidia fans go amd or wait 6 months till nvidia gets on the ball. I do remember the 5870 beating the 480 in some game when they 1st release, but better drivers have come out for it now. The 5870 does beat it on price though you can get one for about $360 and the GTX 480 go for $470. When I got mine the 480 was only $50 more so at the time I did see it as the better buy. Both are great cards though cant go wrong with either imo.
just look at this review, just look at the regular GTX 480 and not the one being reviewed.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-geforce-gtx-480-lightning-review/14
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