Galaxy’s GTX 480 SuperOverclock – The World’s fastest single GPU video card!
Heaven 2.0 Unigine
Finally we come to our last benchmark, Heaven 2, on the Unigine engine. We are still using Heaven 2.0 although 2.1 was recently released. It uses DX11 and fairly heavy tessellation which will strain any graphics card. At least two DX11 games based on Unigine are expected to be released this year. Here are the settings we used for this benchmark.
As you can see, there is a setting that we used for “extreme tessellation”. We will tell you right now that this test chokes the GTX 480 at the highest settings but it is better than the slide show that the Radeon HD 5870 manages. However, the visuals are also extraordinary. Here is our benchmark run at 2560×1600
The extreme tessellation and 4xAA slow down the GTX 480s and choke the Radeons. Now at 1920×1200:
This is a synthetic benchmark and we will withhold judgment until we play PC games using the Unigine engine. However, the Galaxy GTX 480 SOC again scores highest.
i read that 2 gtx 460 nvidia video cards in sli are blowing out the 480 version so its better to buy 2 gtx 460 cards and set them in sli then buying 1 gtx 480 card because 1 gtx 480 is really wasting money
There are always advantages of a single powerful GPU over multi-GPU. You also have no upgrade path from GTX 460 SLI as you do with a single GTX 480 or GTX 580.
I am running benchmarks for a brand new article that will cover this subject: EVGA FTW GTX 460 vs. Galaxy GTX 460, versus GTX 480 and GTX 580. It should be up in a week or so.
I couldn’t concur more. Effectively Said!