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****Official GTX580 user reviews/benchmarking/overclocking thread****

Skyrocket said:
thats 2 weeks lol
Did I just get lubed up and bent over ?

:D

I want the card but I aint paying a single penny over £380
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I am surprised that you did not notice the insertion in your rectum, lol

You will get the card cheaper but by that time everyone will sell the card for 280 quid.
 
Im going for Nvidia this time round. Im more or less fed up of ati and their poor drivers. The 580 looks really decent. Im sure the new ati cards will be great. I just just hate the ati drivers.
 
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Here is something you might find interesting.

Just looking an the Heaven 2.1 bench at stock settings on a 980x also at stock. Res is 2560x1600 with default settings.

Here is a single Sapphire 5970 with 4gb ram. Ignore the low minimum framerate as I didn't know at the time you should let Heaven run one cycle before benching so all the texture caching is done.


Here is a quad 5970 setup. Each card has 4gb ram. Decent enough scaling in Quadfire. Of course the Accelero cooler is pretty loud as it tends to either run almost silent below 50 degrees and then jumps to 100% fan speed once over that threshold.


Here is 2 EVGA 480's in SLI. They are the SC ones so have a slight factory overclock. Noisy in Heaven. This time I made sure it ran once before benching. Qudfire setup easily beats it for max frames, but the SLI setup has higher minimum framerates, even when I went back and reran the quadfire setup properly. At the time I was running an i7 950.


And finally here is the 580's in SLI. Unbeliievably quiet in comparison to even a single 5970. Now quadfire still whoops them for maximum framerate. But take a look at the minimum. It's jumped a lot compared to the 480 SLI setup. And the maximum is up too. Subjectively it ran a lot smoother then the quadfire setup.


The only caveat is I ran the ATI tests on Catalyst 10.5b so it's possible those score would be a lot higher with the latest drivers. Nvidia tests were run with the latest WHQL drivers.
 
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Is there anyone here who has moved from a reference 480 to a 580? I'm interested in how they compare in terms of fan noise (could be time to treat myself to a new card, but I do also like a system that is on the quiet side).

Edit: I should point out that I don't actually own a 480 - but my flatmate does, so I'm familiar with it's acoustic characteristics.
 
Shame I can't run 2560x1600 without hooking up my projector to my gaming PC (bit of a PITA) :( be interesting to see how well these 470s in SLI did in comparision.
 
Not clocked at all but then again neither were the 5970's so it wouldn't be a fair comparison if I did overclock it. Also I was running 10.5a cats and I believe quadfire scaling is even better with latest cats. So in my opinion there is no way I could overtake the maximum framerate but to me that does not matter. Could probably pass the average framerate but as you can see the min framerate is very impressive. What's more important though is Heaven did not seem jerky at all. Very smooth. And I can't believe how quiet these cards are. Quieter then a 5870 at 40% fan speed for sure. And I just used whatever fan profile Nvidia use as default. My cards idle at 35 and 33 degrees!! And they never went over 75 when running Heaven. This is comparable or slightly better then my 5970 quadfire setup and destroys my 480 setup which idled between 45 and 55 depending on when powersaving decided to kick in, and it always got to 85-90 in Heaven. So on this 1 bench alone, I'm impressed.
 
I will probably clock them tomorrow and run my 4.2ghz overclock. Need to spend some time tweaking it as I'm trying to run all 12gig ram at 2000mhz CAS6.
 
No problem. Will do it now.

Keep in mind I'm still running stock on my cards and on my cpu until I can get my memory tweaked to my satisfaction. I will plan to run a full suite of benches next week so people can ask me for whatever they like, and if I have it I will run it.

Back in a few mins.
 
Frame352 said:
Is there anyone here who has moved from a reference 480 to a 580? I'm interested in how they compare in terms of fan noise (could be time to treat myself to a new card, but I do also like a system that is on the quiet side).

Edit: I should point out that I don't actually own a 480 - but my flatmate does, so I'm familiar with it's acoustic characteristics.
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It's like being in heaven. You can't hear the 580 at idle and when ramped up you have a perfectly acceptable noise level (I like quiet pcs) as opposed to having a vacuum cleaner standing just by you. The cooling system is also all very effective and I’ve had around a 10-15 degree drop in idling temperatures.
 
Just installed mine. First thing i notice is the sound is a lot less than my 4890. Ran vantage and got gpu score of 25000 compared to 9000 for my 4890.
 
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