| EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified Video Card |  |
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| Written by Austin Downing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 03 October 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: 3DMark 2011FutureMark 3DMark11 is the latest addition 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 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
Also why does it need a HDMI port when you can convert straight from DVI to HDMI?
I want to see how it stands up to the 2GB 6970 OR the regular EVGA 3GB. You do realize that not all the Classifieds come with 3GB of Vram, right? Why not compare apples to apples? Why compare this to last years options?
It was compared to a Stock ASUS GTX 580 1.5GB which provides a pretty nice apples to apples comparison.
Really nice review! Maybe if you could put more pictures in the future which would be really nice :) keep it up!
I wasn't trying to be crass or mean. The review is wonderful.
I am considering purchasing a 3GB Classified HC and was anxious to see how it compared to say the normal EVGA 3GB or the Asus with more Vram, as well as the AMD 2GB 6970. Maybe you can do another review when those are available:)
That means the difference between the regular 3GB and Classy 3GB is the same as between the ASUS 1.5GB GTX 580 and the classy. around 4-6% at stock settings on both.
Except for price I really do recommend this card. It is beautiful, runs cool, and has a lifetime warranty.
Thank you for the compliment. This was a eye opening experience to say the least. I hope in the future to be able to provide for our readers even better.
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Hmm. On one hand, this cooler doesn't exhaust as much air into the case. On the other hand, the MSI Twin Frozr III heatsink is very impressive. I guess overclocking headroom will decide it.
Now THAT would be an article. 580 Classy 3gb vs MSI GTX 580 Lightning 3gb.
Perhaps a overclocking competition between both?
The only other card worth looking at is the Asus ROG Matrix 580 Platinum. Other manufacturers of course have custom non-reference flagships, but the consensus seems to be that the MSI and Asus ones are the top (ex: Gigabyte).
The 580 Lightning Xtreme is at a similar price point and is also oriented for enthusiasts and ROG ... well, the name should say what the target audience is.
That said,......this is really a well thought out design and awesome performer too. I love it.
Also, Austin I think the OC competition between those two cards would be a GREAT article!