Four Overclocked GeForce GTX 580 Cards, Rounded Up
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Today we put four factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 580 cards to the test: Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock, MSI’s N580GTX Twin Frozr II/OC, Calibre’s X580 Captain, and Zotac’s GeForce GTX 580 AMP²! Edition. Which one is worth its premium price?
Overclocking Benchmarks
Despite each card's different shipping specifications, they all demonstrate similar maximum stable overclocks:
As you can see, the overclocking results fall very close across the playing field, except for the strange advantage shown by MSI’s Twin Frozr II/OC at 2560x1600. This is an odd and inexplicable result that manifested itself with repeated testing.
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Hupiscratch Great article. Some ASUS boards would be nice on a next round up. And also that MARS card, with two GTX 580 in one board.Reply -
mayankleoboy1 +1 to include a ASUS DCII card.Reply
reason for MSI's faster performance : faster memory?
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asmodyus What I don't understand is why you did not use the MSI lighting Extreme with an 832 core clock it would be a better contender in your shoot out here than the twin razor since your using the Zotac 3GB version. Does not really make since when you think of overclocked GTX 580 to leave that card out.Reply -
hardcore_gamer Two GTX570s cost only $580. It is a way better option than an overclocked GTX580 imo.Reply -
more memory is very handy for gpu based renderer like Mentalray's iray of Chaos group vray RT and it may be better chose over many nvidia quadro card.Reply
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verbalizer +2 for the ASUS DC cards, they should have had one of those models in the line-up.Reply
though there is a triple slot 580 from ASUS that should also be included.
with all the talk on how the 590 is the 'flagship' card or the 'meat and potatoes',
it's the 580 that really brings home the bacon..