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First Look: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480

PC Word: "Is the GeForce GTX 480 fashionably late, or just plain late? ATI has been tooting the DirectX 11 horn for quite some time now, while their competitors labored on a rebuttal. At long last, Nvidia's first DirectX 11 graphics card is here -- and for better or worse, it's quite a beast."

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Pen Pooh5903d ago

Are there actually any tangible advanatages to having DX11 at all? Are the improvements even noticeable?

Cernunnos5902d ago

Hardly any noticeable difference from DX10 to 11 IMO.
Dissappointed in the new 400 series, really.

steve30x5902d ago (Edited 5902d ago )

If you cant see the difference between DX10 and DX11 you seriously need to go and get your eyes checked. The biggest change that is very noticable is Tesselation.

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If you cant see any difference in those screenshots then you need to get your eyes checked.

ProjectVulcan5902d ago (Edited 5902d ago )

The problem is dude that we want differences in GAMES and not technical demonstration screens and benchmarks. The games so far that use it dont offer up a lot of noticeable differences much like early DX10 games, and just like early DX10 games the performance hit is absolutely enormous. 5870 struggles in metro 2033 DX11 as it is, forget actually using it with anything less like a 5750! Going from DX10 to the full on DX11 codepath halves performance, even for something like a GTX480. Ouchy. After you have halved the performance of your uber high end video card then you dont currently have a lot to show for it in something like metro.

More time is needed for developers to get to grips with the API just like how it took some time with DX10

Chris_TC5902d ago

The games with tesselation will come, it'll just take some time before it becomes the norm. Consoles holding us back doesn't help either since almost everything is multi-platform these days.

The 480 is a beast with tesselation turned on. It even reaches the 5970's performance in some cases (Heaven 2.0 on high tesselation and the Stonegiant benchmark which is also highly tesselated).

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altimako025902d ago

that when you play online all of the high performance eyecandy is turned off, which means that in bfbc2 you only get the looks in sp and most people bought the game for mp

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio25d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing25d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9225d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit25d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing25d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9225d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."