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GTX 580 Review

Gerard said:
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In a lot of benchmarks the 5970 was still a good bit ahead. i think the "performance" crown is still in dispute especially considering this is one review and using old 5970 drivers. Should have a better indication when more reviews come online.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_580_SLI/24.html

I was judging by the Performance Summary. Obviously the choice of benchmarks have a huge impact on it thus I never draw conclusions from reading a single review. You can however make some assumptions and considering that 5970 is a dual gpu, I wouldn't call GTX580 a fail. Especially that it's cheaper.
 
Ignoring the things that Coupe69 pointed out, it looks like 10-15% over the GTX480, trading the top spot with the HD5970 depending on the game in question.

I won't be getting one, as there's no chance of it fitting my case! If I was a GTX480 owner I probably wouldn't bother but for those who want the latest and greatest, it's going to be expensive but just about justifyable.
 
Peter450 said:
Everyone has there preferences on what they consider smooth/playable, i game at 1680x1050 aswell and have a 470, which is not to disimilar to a 480/580 though clearly a bit slower

I game with V Sync on as i really dont like all the tearing/shearing & glitching that goes on if you turn it off, i like games like BC2 and i want the framerate consistant and high, even with lots of action, i dont want the FPS jumping about between 60 and 40 or 30 etc as although it's still smooth, it does jitter about a bit when the frames fluctuate like that, and on some games this is noticable, can be distracting.

So if like me, and i'm sure i'm not alone in this, you want V Sync on and a stable 60 FPS, with minimal drops out of this sweet zone even in heavy action, then a good quality single GPU like a 580 is not overkill at all

Peoples idea of overkill varies, to me overkill would be replacing a card that can for the most part run all games at my res at 60FPS or above even during heavy action bit's with high settings and V Sync on with a faster one, as i would see very little benefit, this is why i have not gone SLI, a good fast single card does what i need at the res i play, if it didn't i would get SLI, although this would be a last resort as i really do not like the idea of having to setup profiles?? etc for dual cards and it seems like a lot of extra hassel
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Yup, I understand that in some ways the way people have a preference of certain things, but I just don't get it how people can notice the difference as I certainly don't notice any jittering etc. unless you really stare and try to notice it etc. I don't notice any difference at all when I am on my friends PC who has an i7 920, gainward 295, 6GB of RAM and 1680x1050 and neither does he when he is playing the same games on my pc at the same settings etc.

The only game that I can recall of having some jittering but this was due to a bad hard drive of mine (5 years old and bad sectors) was dirt 2.
 
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Lol he claims before the release hes not getting a gtx580 sample but hes the first to review. Could it be that he distances himself from nvidia for a purpose stinks of a little dog sheesh. I have never liked the games he benches half are ok but most of his old suite seems a little to biased and non crossfire friendly. Dm has pointed out already why a 5970 gets an unfair deal from this site but i also think the gtx580 is close enough that i would want the gtx580 over the 5970.
 
well the card does look impressive, but as some say its standard clocks are higher to start with, also the sli benchmarks look a little low to me, espescially the avp one as i was just playing the game with fraps running and it never dipped below 72 fps even with lots of aliens attacking me, and thats at 2560 x 1600 sli gtx480'5 @stock, how do you actually run the avp benchmark to see if that differs, cos the 580 sli results were around 45 fps which seems low.
 
TheRealDeal said:
The review shows otherwise and i don't know why you still get to post tbh. If i was buying i would buy a gtx580 over a 5970 if the price is around £400. There are nv fanboys and amd likewise but your points are just stupid and bring no facts to any thread. I think the mods should take a closer look at you as you are just being stupid.
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The review show that in most games the GTX580 is a bit faster

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
BattleForge
Call of Juarez 2
Drirt 2 (with DX11)
Far Cry 2
Tom Clancy's HAWX
Metro 2033
World of Warcraft

the HD5970 was faster in games like cod4…
 
With the current architectures from both AMD and Nvidia, AMD will always frustrate Nvidia becuase all AMD have to do is put two cores on a PCB and viola fastest gpu on the planet.

Nvidia cant do that due to power consumption and thermals.

However techically your better of with a 580GTX than 5970 or even a 6990 (for example) due to the issues and limitations associated with crossfire and any dual gpu set up.
 
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nalla said:
well the card does look impressive, but as some say its standard clocks are higher to start with, also the sli benchmarks look a little low to me, espescially the avp one as i was just playing the game with fraps running and it never dipped below 72 fps even with lots of aliens attacking me, and thats at 2560 x 1600 sli gtx480'5 @stock, how do you actually run the avp benchmark to see if that differs, cos the 580 sli results were around 45 fps which seems low.
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I didnt find AVP demandig at all. Maybe the benchmark is more demanding than the actual game?
 
dont forget cuda whoa used that yesterday for the first time, what a diiference that makes, i do a bit of blu ray encoding, and the prog i use encodes an x264 to bluray format in 5 hours 43 mins, did the same film with cuda enabled and did it in 1h 45, and the gpu never went 50% on one gpu and the other wasnt used at all,
 
The review isnt great but the card still performes really well in newer games where it matters and it's still a single gpu card, £350-365 price point and they have done a really good job imo.
 
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