GF GTX 680/670 Round Up: EVGA, Zotac, MSI, GB, Asus

Name: GeForce GTX 680 Round-Up: EVGA, Zotac, MSI, GB, Asus
Brand: GeForce

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, July 12, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT

Futuremark 3DMark11

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

Futuremark 3DMark11

The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark11, is specifically bound to Windows Vista and WIndows 7-based systems due to its DirectX 11 requirement, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark11 isn't simply a port of 3DMark Vantage to DirectX 11, though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated four new graphics tests, a physics tests, and a new combined test. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark11's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.

Although there is a little more data to digest here, 3DMark 11 tells essentially the same story as Unigine Heaven from the previous page. The overclocked GeForce GTX 680 cards take the tops spots, in order of highest-to-lowest boost clocks. And the factory overclocked GeForce GTX 670 cards sandwich the reference GeForce GTX 680. In this benchmark, however, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is able to pull ahead of the stock GeForce GTX 670, although it still trails the GTX 680 by a considerable margin.

Tags: Nvidia, Asus, MSI, GeForce, Gigabyte, Gaming, graphics, Zotac, GPU, evga, GTX

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com