28 Oct 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI in your PC? We think this GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI has around 6-12 months until an upgrade should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which has 52% better performance and can run 821 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX 580 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 24% better and can meet 753 of their recommended requirements.