NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Review

Dragon Age: Origins (DX9)

To benchmark Dragon Age, we used a simple walkthrough coupled with a short combat sequence. The benchmark run begins with a walk through one of the most demanding scenes we have come across in the game so far: the walk over the bridge and through Ostagar. This is followed by a combat sequence outside of the fortress itself. In total the runthrough takes about 6 minutes.

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Dragon Age really isn’t a particularly hard game on graphics cards but the GTX 480 nonetheless manages to stay ahead of the HD 5870 most of the time. There are a few instances however where the less expensive ATI card is able to eke out a win.