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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 finally unleashed. Reviewed and rated.

by Tarinder Sandhu on 26 March 2010, 23:00

Tags: GeForce GTX 480, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2



Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the latest addition to our testing suite. The game is set to maximum detail and a 30-second section is FRAPS'd whilst we run through the trenches, stumbling upon a bunch of enemy soldiers and letting rip.

Benchmarks






GeForce GTX 480 performs much like the twin-GPU GTX 295 in Bad Company 2, and it's barely any faster than the Radeon HD 5870. Drivers are in a constant state of flux with this gaming title, so don't be surprised to see a 15 per cent increase in performance with one driver drop.

This gaming title is heavily reliant on the host CPU until we hit GPU-bound settings at 2,560x1,600. For example, testing GTX 480 with a Core i7 920 instead of a 965 EE results in a 12 per cent frame-rate reduction at 1,680x1,050.

What's good, though, is that the minimum frame-rates are very close to the average.

Percentage faster/slower Radeon HD 5870
1,680x1,050 7.5
1,920x1,200 8.9
2,560x1,600 3.5