EVGA GTX 580 FTW Hydro Copper 2 Review

by Mathew Miranda — Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 02:00 PM EDT

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat - DX11

S. T. A. L. K. E. R. - Call of Pripyat

DX11 Gaming Performance

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Call of Pripyat is the third game in the STALKER series and throws in DX11 to the mix. This benchmark is based on one of the locations found within the latest game. Testing includes four stages and utilizes various weather conditions, as well as different time of day settings. It offers a number of presets and options, including multiple versions of DirectX, resolutions, antialiasing, etc. SunShafts represents the most graphically challenging stage available. We conducted our testing with DX11 enabled, multiple resolutions, and Ultra settings.

STALKER obviously favors NVIDIA as all the GeForce cards we tested provided higher scores than the HD 5970, including the GTX 570 from Zotac. At any rate, the GTX 580 FTW HC2 was 20% faster than the HD 5970 in average FPS.