Legit Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GF100 DX11 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 - 06:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron) is an aerial warfare video game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. It was released in United States on March 6, 2009 and features Microsoft DirectX 10.1 game play.

Tom Clancy HAWX

The game has a built-in benchmark that is very tough on video cards! 

Tom Clancy HAWX

For this game VSync was turned off, but Antialiasing was turned on and set to 8x for better image quality.

Tom Clancy HAWX

All of the DirectX 10 options were set to high including Ambient occlusion (SSAO) on both the NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.  The game was patched with update v1.2, which was the most current patch.

Tom Clancy HAWX Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: When we ran Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. in DirectX 10 mode with AA enabled, we saw the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 had a 9%  performance improvement over the MSI R5870 Lighting at 1920x1200. In lower resolutions (1280x1024), however, the GTX 480 gained almost 18% in performance over both 5870's.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The First DX11 NVIDIA GPU - GeForce GTX 480
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX 480
Page 3 - Taking The GeForce GTX 480 Apart
Page 4 - GeForce GTX 480 Test Settings
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Temperature Testing
Page 12 - GeForce GTX 480 Overclocking
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - GeForce GTX F@H Performance
Page 15 - Dual LCD Display Testing
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions