Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 Super OverClock Review
Test System and Unigine Heaven v3
How We Configured Our Test Systems: We tested the graphics cards in this article on an Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard powered by a Core i7-3960X six-core processor and 16GB of G.SKILL DDR3-1866 RAM. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the system UEFI and set all values to their "optimized" or "high performance" default settings and disable any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use. The memory's X.M.P. profile was enabled to ensure better-than-stock performance and the hard drive was then formatted and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 was installed. When the installation was complete, we fully updated the OS and installed the latest DirectX redist along with the drivers, games, and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.
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Relevant Software: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 DirectX April 2011 Redist AMD Catalyst v12.11B NVIDIA GeForce Drivers v370.10 Benchmarks Used: Unigine Heaven v3 3DMark 11 Batman: Arkham City Hitman: Absolution Alien vs. Predator Metro 2033 Sleeping Dogs F1 2012 |
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Unigine's Heaven Benchmark v3.0 is built around the Unigine game engine. Unigine is a cross-platform, real-time 3D engine, with support for DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and OpenGL. The Heaven benchmark--when run in DX11 mode--also makes comprehensive use of tessellation technology and advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion). It also features volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm and a dynamic sky with light scattering. |
The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 Super OverClock dominated the Unigine Heaven benchmark. In terms of framerate and the overall score, this card put up the best numbers by a significant margin, thanks to its higher clocked GPU and memory.
