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Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition

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Getting one of these GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition graphics cards allows the gamer to run indie system requirements and some less demanding AAA titles. In today’s PC hardware terms these are considered middle range for gaming performance. GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition in your PC? Its upgrade time for the GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition, assuming you are a modern day gamer.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition? A great upgrade graphics card would be a 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, which has 191% better performance and can run 921 of the top 1000 demanding game requirements today. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 4GB which meets 725 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 114% better performance.
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The GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition was released on the 20 Sep 2010
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GPU
Architecture
Fermi GF100-375-A3
Process
40nm
TMUs
60
Texture Rate
45 GTexel/s
ROPs
48
Pixel Rate
36 GPixel/s
Shader
Processing Units (Cuda Cores)
480
Ray Tracing Cores
Tensor Cores
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Compatibility
Direct X
DX 12.0
Shader
5.0
Open GL
4.5
Resolution (WxH)
2560x1600
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
Integrated
Memory
Memory
1536 MB
Memory Speed
1000 MHz
Memory Bus
384 Bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
192GB/sec
L2 Cache
768KB
Display Connectors
VGA Connection
0
DVI Connection
2
HDMI Connection
1
DisplayPort Connection
Clock Speeds
Core Speed
750 MHz
Power
Max Power
250 Watts
PSU
600 Watt & 42 Amps
Power Connector
2x 8-pin
Recommended Hardware
Best CPU Match
Core i7-875K Quad 2.93GHz
Best RAM Match
8 GB
Best Resolution
1920 x 1080
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GeForce GTX 590
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GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Overview
GeForce GTX 480 MSI Lightning Edition is a special edition of NVIDIA's High-End GeForce GTX 480, created by MSI.


Overclock Out of The Box
The Central Unit is now of 750MHz, instead of 701MHz while the Operating Memory Clock was increased to 1000MHz.


Cooling Solution
The Cooling System was replaced by MSI's Twin Frozr III Thermal Design which means the Graphics Card runs cooler under load.


Performance
Benchmarks indicate a 5% performance boost over the reference GeForce GTX 480.


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