How good is a GTX480 with this game?

I'm currently running a GTX280 at 1920x1080 for this game (on a QuadCore Q9450 processor at 3.2GHz).

What kind of bump in performance, if any, will I see if I run a GTX480 instead? Can anyone who runs one of those beasties relay their experience with it?

Thanks in advance.

I have the EVGA 480GTX SC running with a Phenom II X4 3.0GHz and 5G ram.
The optimal settings for performance and shiny are mostly maxed out. FSAA at 8x, Shadow Quality at High and Occlusion strength at Strong. If I go above any of those settings it has a major hit on fps.

The fan is louder then heck and it does run very hot (~97C) under max load. But it never gives up

Keep in mind, if you get an EVGA you cant run the evga precision tool and change settings in game at the same time, it will lock up the game.

Yes it is pricey, hot, loud and a behemoth in my case but I don't regret it at all.

*running 2 monitors both 1920 x 1080 but running game in windowed mode: Win7 Aero stuff

*Gaming monitor: Samsung 24" LED, game looks awesome!

Here's all the stuff anyway: (with this rig I usually get around 35-40fps outside and 50+ inside, Hami raids I drop to around 15 or so but never slide show anymore )

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at September 21, 2010 10:42 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: GA-MA78G-DS3H
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 940 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 5120MB
.Net Memory Report: 3701MB out of 5118MB available
Page File: 8621MB (1613MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 326259MB out of 510477MB (63%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1 ATA Device) 63950MB out of 99798MB (64%) free
F Drive: (WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 ATA Device) 51897MB out of 238473MB (21%) free
G Drive: (ATAPI iHOS104 ATA Device) zero-size drive
E Drive: (PIONEER BD-RW BDR-205 ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Driver Date: 7/10/2010 5:38:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce GTX 480
Video Memory: 3806 MB
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Driver Date: 7/10/2010 5:38:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (2- USB AUDIO )
Driver File: USBAUDIO.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:06:32 PM

Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 5:07:00 PM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: GA-MA78G-DS3H
Motherboard Version:
BIOS Manufacturer: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: GBT - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20090812000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1058
3D Resolution: 1920x1058 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: Yes
Screen Position: 17, -19
Refresh Rate: 0Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No


Physics Quality: Very High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: 8x
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High


World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 2.000
Entity Detail Level: 2.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Super high quality


Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Compatiblity
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.081
Music Sound Volume: 0.000

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 972913 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1850.201007290124.28T4
Installation Directory: D:\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

I don't know why I ask these questions. In the end, I never can keep myself from buying new toys. Thanks Vorac. for helping me spend yet another $500....

Follow up question:
If I take an old 8800 GT and make it a 2nd video card in the PC getting the GTX 480, will it do much for performance if I dedicate that card to physics or will it actually be worse than letting the 480 do all the work?

In this game it'll do nothing since the implementation of PhysX in CoH/V/GR doesn't recognize nVidia's GPU implementation.

To heck with ALL that! Welcome back jg0001!!!! Now please buy an nvidia card and sort us out on settings again! :-)