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OK high key idk where i been either but yall enjoy The Nvidia GTX 480, released in 2010, was a groundbreaking but controversial graphics card. Marketed as the fastest single-GPU card of its time, it was plagued by delays, high power consumption, and extreme heat output. Built on Nvidia's ambitious Fermi architecture, the card faced production challenges due to the adoption of TSMC's 40nm process, leading to low chip yields and compromised performance. These issues tarnished its reputation despite its raw power and dominance over ATI's Radeon HD 5870 in some scenarios. Fast forward 14 years, the GTX 480 still surprises with its ability to run certain modern games, albeit with limitations. While its age shows in performance and efficiency, it remains a testament to Nvidia's early attempts to push technological boundaries. Although it’s no longer practical for most use cases, its legacy lives on as a pivotal, albeit flawed, chapter in GPU history. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:20 So what made the 480 so good? 3:42 Setting it all up! 4:47 Building The PC! 4:12 Fortnite Low 1080p 4:23 The Finals Lowest 1080p 5:58 Apex Legends Lowest 1080p 6:22 GTA V Highest 1080p 6:55 Far Cry 4 Lowest 1080p 7:19 CS2 Lowest 768p 7:45 Rocket League Quality 1080p 7:58 Beamng.Drive Low 1080p 8:14 PUBG Very Low 1080p 8:57 So, the 480 is still pretty good 9:48 now go SUBSCRIBE! Script: (As much as I could fit): Nvidia’s Firey Flagship - Was The GTX 480 That Bad? Hello everybody and todays hot topic is nvidias fiery fermi flagship: the gtx 480. Back in 2010 this was the fastest single gpu graphics card in the world but was plagued with issues before adn after it hit the mark0et. Its considered one of the worst graphics cards of all time so why is it still able to hold up 14 years later and what caused it to become nvidias worst nightmare. In ever sense of the word, the GTX 480 was a beast. A hot, expensive beast that aht hit the market 6 months late but a beast nonetheless. Using Nvidia’s GF 100 processor, it came with 480 cores, 60 TMUs, 48, ROPS, with 1 and a half GB of GDDR5 memory and a 384 bit bus width. The reference model camer wth a core clock of 701 MHz, a shader clock of 1401 mhz, and a memory clock of 924 mhz all for the low price of $500. Its primary competition was ATIs HD 5870, which it was mostly faster than. https://www.techspot.com/review/283-g... http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f2... https://www.anandtech.com/show/2977/n... There are a few games in which atis card did pull ahead but that wasnt the deal breaker. ATIs cards cam e out 6 months before nvidias giving them plenty of time to take over the market. There were many reasons for these delays and essentially came down to nvidia not doing their homework. The GF 100 was a massive die at 529 mm ^2 and this was the first time nvidia attempted to use TSMCs 40 nm on such a large die. The issue is that construction of these transistors had quite some variation and lead to a yield of only 2% on the first lot of Fermi chips. https://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/02/... This is also why the 480 was so hot, the variability seen in these transisoters meant some were more leaky or ran slower than others. They could fix slower transistors by upping the voltage, but higher voltages caused the leaky transistors to leak more which creates more heat and more heats makes leaky transistors leak more. If you dont know, the Leakage current is the unintended flow of electric current in a circuit, often occurring due to transistor level imperfections. They ende up combatting this by fusing off or disabling groups of shaders with too many ‘weak’ transistors, and left the voltage alone. Architecturally the GF 100 was arranged into 16 clusters of 32 shaders for a total of 512 shaders. So they couldn tpick and choose, they had deactivate a full cluster of 32 which is why the 480 only has 480 shaders rather than its intended 512. This caused some reviewers to speculate that a follow up 485 or 490 card was undoubtedly on the horizon. Speculation https://www.anandtech.com/show/2977/n... Some were even able to locate leaked engineering samples of the 480 with all 512 shaders unlocked. However, it only performed 6% faster while consuming 43% more power. So it makes sense that we never saw such a card, and had to wait until the 500 series to get a fermi 2 card with all 512 cores.