OC'ed GeForce GTX 480 Shoot-Out: MSI vs Gigabyte

Name: OC'ed GeForce GTX 480 Shoot-Out: MSI vs Gigabyte - Page 11
Brand: OC'ed

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:24 AM EDT

Alien vs. Predator

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Alien vs. Predator

The Alien vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced Tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion and high-quality shadow features, available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the aforementioned DirectX 11 related features offered by this benchmark, we also switched on 4X anti-aliasing along with 16X anisotropic filtering to more heavily tax the graphics cards being tested.

The increased memory bandwidth offered by the MSI N480GTX Lightning gives it a slight edge over the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 SOC card in the Alien vs. Predator benchmark. Both cards have no trouble outpacing the reference GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 5870.

Tags: Nvidia, MSI, GeForce, Gigabyte, Gaming, graphics, GPU, overclock, GTX 480

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com