You’ve got to feel a little bad for some of these NVIDIA partners; you have to wonder how much they knew about the GTX 580. We also wonder what’s going to happen with the GTX 480. One would assume that it’s going to hang around for a bit as companies like GIGABYTE has thrown a bit of R&D into the creation of the beast we’re looking at today, but everything’s a little up in the air at the moment.GIGABYTE got us the GTX 480 SOC nice and quickly, so we don’t have a full retail package today. Instead of checking out the box and what’s inside it we’ll instead be getting stuck straight into the card itself, which as we’ve already mentioned is the GTX 480 SOC.If you’re not too sure what the SOC series is, it’s GIGABYTEs higher end Super Overclock Series which has been fairly impressive since the launch of the series. Concentrating on both high end models and really overclockable midrange ones likes the GTX 460, it’s hit the market well and has been quite popular. Today we find out what the series can do for the GTX 480.