Review – NVIDIA GTX 580: Fermi at its Best

Test Platform

We used the following hardware combination in our test. A couple of other graphics card configurations were also thrown in the fray for comparison purposes.

• Processor : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics card : NVIDIA GTX 580; NVIDIA GTX 480; 2x NVIDIA GTX 460 768MB/1GB SLI; AMD Radeon HD 5970; 2x AMD Radeon HD 6850 CrossfireX
• Memory : 3×1GB Kingston KHX16000D3T1K3/3GX
• Harddisk : Western Digital Caviar Black 500 GB (32 MB Cache)
• Power Supply : Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050 Watt
• Heatsink : Gelid Tranquilo
• Monitor : Philips 221E
• Input Devices : Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
• Driver : Forceware 262.99; ForceWare 258.96; Catalyst 10.10c

Test Results

First Person Shooter Games

Alien VS Predator

Setting : 1920×1080; DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; AF x16; No-MSAA

LEFT4DEAD

Setting : 1920×1080; No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

Metro 2033

Setting : DirectX 11; Advance DOF, No-Advance PhysX, MSAA x4, AF x16