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

[RavenXXX2]

inconsistent? I get very accurate results when I run heaven, just because it pushes the GPU and not CPU does not mean it's inconsistent lol. It's all about the GPU and tessellation performance, there is little for the CPU to do, go look at your CPU usage in the vantage GPU tests, it's down there with heaven. Benchmarking for years... looks it.

 

[Flanno]

The heaven bench is BS too...Its flaky and really ignores stuff like CPU speed which is a biggy in games

I agree entirely mate. There is almost no difference in my heaven results when running at stock 3.33 or overclocked at 4.16 on my cpu. Then again, I suppose it's a bench to measure gpu performance only really.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Yeah it's not CPU dependent.

 

[easyrider]

inconsistent? I get very accurate results when I run heaven, just because it pushes the GPU and not CPU does not mean it's inconsistent lol. It's all about the GPU and tessellation performance, there is little for the CPU to do,

The point?

go look at your CPU usage in the vantage GPU tests, it's down there with heaven. Benchmarking for years... looks it.

When questioned they come out of the woodwork.

 

[easyrider]

Yeah it's not CPU dependent.

BS bench then

NEXT

 

[Flanno]

But why is it BS ? The predominant view on forums like Anandtech and Toms is that cpu speed is no longer a major contributor to gaming performance unlike GPU speed. Heaven is a measure of that GPU speed. Therefore it's handy for doing comparisons with new GPU's like the 580, as all you need to take account of is resolution and gpu clock speeds; knowing the cpu speed isn't going to impact the results too much. How accurate the results are in terms of your PC's overall performance is in question obviously.

 

[RavenXXX2]

He has no clue. And stop derailing the thread with your incoherent ramblings.

 

[Skyrocket]

OK got some 1080p results done, added Dirt 2 and crysis results.
480@850 core/2000 mem

Here we go 580GTX at 900/1175 tears chunks out of the overclocked 480gtx 850/1000

30% anyone?

 

[easyrider]

He has no clue. And stop derailing the thread with your incoherent ramblings.

Its a valid point.

If you can't see it then I can't help you

 

[easyrider]

cpu speed is no longer a major contributor to gaming performance unlike GPU speed.

Really?

Are you sure?

 

[Flanno]

According to tests Anand did some time back he showed that an overclocked core2duo compared to stock showed minimal performance increase compared to say overclocking your gpu. I don't agree or disagree to be honest and I do realise some games are cpu limited and you do need to overclock the cpu for best results.

 

[Smak]

Cooler mounting is the same so it should. 480 on left, 580 on right.

Just had email back from Artic Cooling, looks like the VR004 set is not compatible with the GTX580....

Dear Sir,

Unfortunately,the VR004 is not compatible with GTS 580.However,our engineering team is testing the compatibility with GTX 580.The Accelero XTREME Plus would be the cooling solution for GTX 580 and we will soon update the latest compatibility list into our webpage.Please check our webpage regularly for latest update.

Have a nice day.

Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grussen

Hope they get one out soon

 

[jigger]

Zero point upgrading the cooling on this card, unless your planning on a uber high end water and plan on pushing past the Fermi Power Monitoring wall of Fail.

A chilled water setup would be the way to go IMO.

 

[Smak]

Zero point upgrading the cooling on this card, unless your planning on a uber high end water and plan on pushing past the Fermi Power Monitoring wall of Fail.

A chilled water setup would be the way to go IMO.

Yeah it's quieter than say 480 but it's no way silent. I don't want to bother with water set-up in my lounge.

 

[Stanners]

I thought the whole point of Heaven is to measure the tesselation power of a gfx card, If i wanted to bench a cpu why would i choose to use Heaven ?

End of the day ATI fanatics will say how useless Heaven is as their beloved card is weak in this area

 

[jigger]

But that whole point of buying a high end video card is for its 3d performance in games.

People nowadays are obsessed with benchmarks, but seem to forget that any synthetic benchmark is just someone's opinion on how well your card might perform. No benchmark can give a true measure of a cards performance, and people should keep that in mind.

 

[Sayso]

people who have 480's and overclock them have the same performance

Its hardly a corker

Its what the 480 should have been (heat and noise wise), its in stock and isnt ridiculously priced.

Are you saying its not a great card?

oh i forgot what part of the forum im on!! i should be saying its crap because i have an AMD card

 

[555BUK]

Heaven is a GPU benchmark. Why should the CPU make any real difference to the score when it is desgined for measuring GPU performance? As benchmarks go, I think it is pretty good and have used to to judge stability and OC gains for both NVidis and ATI cards.

Upgrading from a 480 to 580 is pretty pointless unless you enjoy benching and need the absolute performance. But if buying new, the 580 is a better buy than the 480. Anyone who buys a new 480 is mad until NVidia drope the procing below £300.

 

[jinxpad]

I think I'll be sticking with my 480 for now.

 

[straxusii]

With the stock cooler the 480 just isnt an option, it's just too loud, the 580 is the first viable single GPU solution from Nvidia that beats the 5870 with the stock cooling.