Galaxy’s GTX 480 SuperOverclock – The World’s fastest single GPU video card!
CRYSIS
Next we move on to Crysis, a science fiction first person shooter by Crytek. It remains one of the most demanding games for any PC and it is also still one of the most beautiful games released to date. Crysis is based in a fictional near-future where an alien spacecraft is discovered buried on an island near the coast of Korea. The single-player campaign has you assume the role of USA Delta Force, ‘Nomad’ who is armed with futuristic weapons and equipment. Crysis uses DirectX10 for graphics rendering.
A standalone but related game, Crysis Warhead was released last year. CryEngine2 is the game engine used to power Crysis and Warhead and it is an extended version of the CryEngine that also powers FarCry. As well as supporting Shader Model 2.0, 3.0, and DirectX10’s 4.0, CryEngine2 is also multi-threaded to take advantage of dual core SMP-aware systems and Crytek has developed their own proprietary physics system, called CryPhysics. However, it is noted that actually playing this game is a bit slower than the demo implies.
GPU Demo, Island
All of our settings are set to in-game’s maximum “very high” including 4xAA and we force 16xAF in the control panels. Here is Crysis’ Island Demo benchmark, first at 2560×1600 resolution:
The PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ and the reference GTX 480 are pretty much neck-and-neck overall although the Galaxy GTX 480 SOC is definitely faster. The Radeon appears to stumble at times in the minimums although no single GPU yet offers playable framerates at 2560×1600 at very high plus 4xAA. Perhaps the larger framebuffer of the GTX makes a little difference. although we see the faster clockspeed of the overclocked Radeon helps over the stock one. Let’s move on to 1920×1200:
All four of our top cards are now playable with Crysis at 1920×1200 if you are willing to compromise with AA/AF or lower a couple of detail settings. However, the experience is similar on all 4 cards although the Galaxy GTX 480 SOC is slightly faster if you are keeping score.
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!