NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Review

Metro 2033 (DX11)

There has been a lot of buzz about Metro 2033 which has mostly centered on its amazing graphics coupled with absolutely brutal framerates on even the best GPUs on the market. For this test we use a walkthrough and combat scene from The Bridge level which starts at the beginning of the level and lasts for about 5 minutes of walking, running and combat. Famerates are measured with FRAPS and Advanced PhysX is turned off.


1680 x 1050



1920 x 1200



2560 x 1600


There is no doubt that even though ATI’s HD 5870 gets some decent performance, it is no match for the GTX 480. What surprised us is actually the fairly good scaling of the HD 5970 even though it failed to complete our 2560 x 1600 test.