Zotac GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1.5GB GDDR5 PCI Express Video Card (ZT-40101-10P) $200, Zotac AMP! GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) 1.5GB GDDR5 PCI Express Video Card (ZT-40102-10P) $210 (expired)

How's the 480 SLI compared to the 6950 CF's?

Quote from Solarium : How's the 480 SLI compared to the 6950 CF's?

Faster, especially in tessellated performance. However, with the 480s you typically have 512MB less framebuffer to work with, which might pose a problem at higher resolutions with high levels of anti-aliasing.

This GTX 480 is slightly faster than a HD 6970, roughly in between that and the GTX 580.

How does this compare to GTX 560 ti 448 core? Other than heat, power, only talking about performance, especially scientific computing performance, will this outperform GTX 560 ti 448 due to more memory and cores? What about video encoding?

Quote from worthmining : How does this compare to GTX 560 ti 448 core? Other than heat, power, only talking about performance, especially scientific computing performance, will this outperform GTX 560 ti 448 due to more memory and cores? What about video encoding?

Only talking about performance, this is the faster card. This card is slightly faster than the GTX 570.

The GTX 560 Ti 448 in terms of specifications is pretty much a GTX 470 on the new GF104 die. That said, the 448 has higher clocks thanks to the GF104 improvements and sits just below the GTX 570 and a little below this 480.

Quote from worthmining : How does this compare to GTX 560 ti 448 core? Other than heat, power, only talking about performance, especially scientific computing performance, will this outperform GTX 560 ti 448 due to more memory and cores? What about video encoding?

For information that specific I'll defer to Google, but I believe the 480 is structurally a bit more robust than the 560 Ti 448. Someone will surely freak out if I'm wrong though, so no worries.

IRL? I'd go with the Ti 448 over a 480 all else being equal.

The 480 was a beastly card, and no doubt about it, but launch Fermi cards had issues, mainly high power draw and an equivalently high output of waste heat. The 500 series cards - 580, 570 and 560 Ti 448 - are essentially refined versions of the architecture and are generally more desirable than their 400 series counterparts as they tend to run cooler and quieter with lots of OC headroom.

Performance-wise, you can easily OC the Ti 448 to about match a stock 480. "But what about OCing the 480?!?" You can do that if you're down to sink some skrilla in water cooling (or don't mind if your rig sounds like a bloody SR-71) - otherwise I'd avoid it unless you just want to torch your other internals for funsies.

480 is not a bad card. But newer cards offer the same performance with fewer drawbacks.

Quote from toolio20 : The 480 was a beastly card, and no doubt about it, but launch Fermi cards had issues, mainly high power draw and an equivalently high output of waste heat. The 500 series cards - 580, 570 and 560 Ti 448 - are essentially refined versions of the architecture and are generally more desirable than their 400 series counterparts as they tend to run cooler and quieter with lots of OC headroom. Performance-wise, you can easily OC the Ti 448 to about match a stock 480. "But what about OCing the 480?!?" You can do that if you're down to sink some skrilla in water cooling (or don't mind if your rig sounds like a bloody SR-71) - otherwise I'd avoid it unless you just want to torch your other internals for funsies. 480 is not a bad card. But newer cards offer the same performance with fewer drawbacks.

The Ti 448 is certainly a better buy than the stock 480.

The 480 with a VF3000F however, like the AMP! card, will run quieter than the Ti 448 even when overclocked rather aggressively. 810-840MHz on the core shouldn't be outside the realm of possibility with this cooler, or 850MHz+ with voltage adjustment.

Typically the GF104 (GTX 580, GTX 570, GTX 560 Ti 448) can hit 850-900MHz on the core on air, with sufficient voltage. The Ti 448 has less robust VRM circuity, less video memory and will certainly be louder than a 480 + aftermarket cooler.

To put this all in perspective, I'd sooner buy the eVGA 560 Ti 448 that's on FP right now for $235 than the $190 Zotac 480 vanilla. But I think the $200 480 AMP! represented a significantly better value than either of them -- better quality PCB than the 448 (better VRMs + more VRAM) with cooler/quieter performance than either and a substantial 56MHz core clock boost over the vanilla.

The inclusion of the Zalman cooler made the AMP! a frankly incredible buy, even better than the $100 refurb 5850/465s and $150 refurb 5870s considering these are BNIB with full warranty.

Quote from expansionist : To put this all in perspective, I'd sooner buy the eVGA 560 Ti 448 that's on FP right now for $235 than the $190 Zotac 480 vanilla. But I think the $200 480 AMP! represented a significantly better value than either of them -- better quality PCB than the 448 (better VRMs + more VRAM) with cooler/quieter performance than either and a substantial 56MHz core clock boost over the vanilla. The inclusion of the Zalman cooler made the AMP! a frankly incredible buy, even better than the $100 refurb 5850/465s and $150 refurb 5870s considering these are BNIB with full warranty.

Overall I'd agree with this; however, since the AMP version has long since sold out I figured I'd deal with what's available, i.e. the "vanilla" 480. I don't think most folks want to hear how good the deal they missed out on was (I personally don't think it was all that), but I could've been more specific regardless.

I heard gtx580 cut some gpgpu feature comparing to 400 series. Anybody built a HPC mind sharing insight between the 560 ti 448 vs 480? Many threads talked about 480 SLI blows a single 580, but I have a hard to find any specific gpgpu comparison between the ti 448 and 480.

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In 4 one! Good find OP. Upgrading from an 8800 GTS for swtor. GTX 480 might be a little hot and a little old but it'll work well for ~2 years or so for $200 so that's pretty good.

Quote from Cadams1 : In 4 one! Good find OP. Upgrading from an 8800 GTS for swtor. GTX 480 might be a little hot and a little old but it'll work well for ~2 years or so for $200 so that's pretty good.

Were you able to get one?

Quote from doco : Zotac website has the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 [ZT-40101-10P] [zotacusa.com] for $189.99 + $9.99 S&H (Cheapest shipping option). Tax is $16.62 if you live in California. Total comes out to be $216.60 on my end in CA. Edit: they also have their ZOTAC AMP! GeForce GTX 480 [ZT-40102-10P] [zotacusa.com] for $199.99 + $9.99 S&H. reviews for it can be found here from newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6814500166 NOTE: AMP! edition WILL take up 2 slots below it.

Don't look for any rebates from Zotac. They rip you off

Quote from hanabie : watch out your electric bill.. if you oc + sli

How much do you pay for electricity?

Quote from snowbob230 : How much do you pay for electricity?

$0.25/kWh on tier 3. I believe it's hard to stay on tier 1, and tier 2 range is basically so short.

This is Diamond Bar, California btw.

Quote from Postalalien : Don't look for any rebates from Zotac. They rip you off

I've had no issues with their rebates...
And there's no rebates with this deal, so wtf are you talking about???