Sparkle Geforce GTX480 Video Card

Testing:

Test Rig:

• 8Gb OCZ Platinum DDR3 1333Mhz
• Western Digital 1Tb Black Edition 7200rpm
• Asus Crosshair III Formula Motherboard
• Antec Skeleton Case
• Cooler Master 850 watt PSU

We ran a comprehensive battery of tests on this video card to see what is was truly capable of.

Si Soft Sandra:

“SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.”

“This is a set of benchmarks designed to measure arithmetic performance, i.e. how fast it can crunch numbers. These are native ports of the traditional CPU benchmarks that have been available in Sandra since 1995. They allow us to directly compare CPU with GPGPU performance by using the same algorithms and the same data.”

These are the individual component scores of the same test.

3d Mark 06:

“3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card. A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system’s 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. By comparing your score with those submitted by millions of other gamers you can see how your gaming rig performs, making it easier to choose the most effective upgrades or finding other ways to optimize your system.”

Here you can see a picture of the benchmarks in process, the render quality on this card is amazing.

Here are the results of the comprehensive test. Keep in mind that my system is completely stock settings, whereas this ridiculous unnamed system is overclocked to the extreme.