3DMark11
3DMark11 (DirectX 11)
3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC’s gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.
- Graphics Test 1
- Based on the Deep Sea scene
- No tessellation
- Heavy lighting with several shadow casting lights
- Graphics Test 2
- Based on the Deep Sea scene
- Medium tessellation
- Medium lighting with few shadow casting lights
- Graphics Test 3
- Based on the High Temple scene
- Medium tessellation
- One shadow casting light
- Graphics Test 4
- Based on the High Temple scene
- Heavy tessellation
- Many shadow casting lights
- Physics Test
- Rigid body physics simulation with a large number of objects
- This test runs at a fixed resolution regardless of the chosen preset
- Combined Test
- Runs rigid body physics simulation on a moderate number of objects
- Soft body physics using DirectCompute and the Bullet physics library running on the GPU
- Medium tessellation
- Medium lighting
Synthetic tests like 3DMark11 will show much closer to theoretical performance advantages and the Gigabyte GTX 580 Super Overclock is about 9% faster than the reference GTX 580. However, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 continues to have a big advantage here.
Great review, judging by the
Great review, judging by the results i think the 40$ price tag is worth it for the cooling. Its overclocked AND runs cooler than the reference, sounds like a good deal to me. I think you forgot the sound levels, it was mentioned in the beginning of the article.
Also, why havnt I seen any reviews of the 3GB 580? Is it because its not reference?
It was due to my ignorance,
It was due to my ignorance, but my cards were over heating because I thought my motherboard was best suited to have the cards right on top of each other. After reading the motherboard manual, I realized that spacing them into slots 1 & 3 were recommended for top speed. Not 1 & 2. Now the cards seem to be peaking around 72 degrees celcius. NIGHT AND DAY is the different.
So if you plan on going SLI with these, make sure you have a motherboard that can support spacing them. As they run too hot (even when downclocked to 600 mhz) to have them sitting on top of each other.
http://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-GeForce-mini-HDMI-Graphics-GV-N580SO-15I/dp/B0052XXCEG?tag=emjay2d-20
GTX 580 has much life left in
GTX 580 has much life left in it. Not bad for 15 months old GPU. 7970 is great overlocker and that is the only thing that cen really make a difference. Nice review..
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