Graphics card test: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480, next gen DirectX 11

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Six months behind ATI, NVIDIA has at last launched its first DirectX 11 compatible range of graphics cards. How does this new Fermi based generation stand up to the competition? Answers in our test.

The GeForce GTX 480 is the first NVIDIA model with DirectX 11 compatibility. 3D performance, energy consumption, noise and heat levels: we cover them all in our analysis of the various strong and weak points of this much-anticipated card.

Don't forget you can check out all the results of our tests in the graphics card face-off as well as the performance summary tables (performance index) to give yourself a general idea of the performance of all cards tested.

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