| EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified: Overclocked |  |
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| Written by Austin Downing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 17 November 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: 3DMark 2011FutureMark 3DMark11 is the latest addition of the 3DMark benchmark series built by FutureMark corporation. 3DMark11 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX-11 graphics card performance without vendor preference. Although 3DMark11 includes the unbiased Bullet Open Source Physics Library instead of NVIDIA's PhysX for the CPU/Physics tests, Benchmark Reviews concentrates on the four graphics-only tests in 3DMark11 and uses them with medium-level 'Performance' presets. The 'Performance' level setting applies 1x multi-sample anti-aliasing and trilinear texture filtering to a 1280x720p resolution. The tessellation detail, when called upon by a test, is preset to level 5, with a maximum tessellation factor of 10. The shadow map size is limited to 5 and the shadow cascade count is set to 4, while the surface shadow sample count is at the maximum value of 16. Ambient occlusion is enabled and preset to a quality level of 5.
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Comments
Based on newegg reviews owners got 900-920 mhz at default volt. I'm hoping to get the same. Extra 20 to 40mhz for a 0.2 volts extra is too much. Did toy try to oc without volt tweaking?
Can't wait to bench mine.
More seriously, I doubt you could get to 1000 watts without those liquid-He/Ni cooling ideas. Still, if you could get it to 600 or 700 watts using air or water, that would be amazing. It's already drawing more power than most people's entire systems - it'd be both humorous and educational to see if it could outdraw most enthusiast systems.
Anyway, another enjoyable article. You guys run an excellent operation here at BMR.
I can not test for anything over the power draw I had on during this test due to thermal constraints. Even so during our test I was drawing almost 500w just for this card.
Thank you for the compliment it means a lot to know that our readers appreciate our work.
Nice to see an unashamedly "enthusiast" review.
Seems a little late to the party ( evga ). I can't see getting the classified when Kepler is around the corner now ( the first round of consumer cards and then the enthusiast cards soon after )
FYI Even if you wants to buy this gpu you can't it has bin sold out since launch and available in limited quantaties. Meaning when kepler hit I should have no problem selling the thing due to the limited quantities and demand @ a good price. Besides how would I play skyrim with all the hd mods out there already as well as bf3 @ max!
#m.tweaktown.com/news/21713/rumortt_nvidia_s_28n m_desktop_gpu_roadma p_revealed_no_high_e nd_geforce_card_unti l_2h_2012/index.html
I hope not another fermi
OC is like over speed limit.....if ya going 10% over the 60 mph peed limit, that's 1.10 x 60 or 66 mph ....66/60 = 1.10 or 10% over speed limit
% Overclock = 100 x (OC Speed / Stock Speed - 1)
100 x (940/772 - 1) = 21.76%
Or another way ....
% OC = (OC speed - Ref Speed) / Ref Speed
(940 - 772) / 772 = 21/76 $ same answer