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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - The Real Fermi Deal

By Kenny Yeo - 9 Nov 2010

Crysis Warhead and Far Cry 2 Results

Crysis Warhead and Far Cry 2 Results

On Crysis Warhead, the GeForce GTX 580 was able to maintain its impressive lead over the GeForce GTX 480, and was on average about 15% quicker overall. Against the GeForce GTX 470, the lead was even greater at more than 40% overall, so the GeForce GTX 580 is indeed a very powerful card.

Against the offerings from the red camp, the GeForce GTX 580 found itself undone by the Radeon HD 5970, which was on the whole about 10% quicker. However, the Radeon HD 5970 is a dual-GPU card, and against ATI/AMD’s single GPU offerings, the GeForce GTX 580 was obviously quicker. 

On Far Cry 2, the GeForce GTX 580 again recorded substantially faster frame rates compared to the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470. It also managed to edge out the Radeon HD 5970, and this was especially apparent on the more intensive runs when 8x anti-aliasing was enabled, where it was about 8% to 17% quicker. And against the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 6870, the GeForce GTX 580 could be as much as 60% quicker.

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8.5
  • Performance 9
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 8
The Good
Untouchable single-GPU performance
Cooler and less power hungry than GTX 480
Excellent Tessellation performance
The Bad
Costly
DX10 performance could be better
No triple display support on 1 card
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