NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges - Page 8
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 09, 2010, 09:00 AM EDT

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

DirectX Gaming Performance

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. is an aerial warfare video game that takes place during the time of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Players have the opportunity to take the throttle of over 50 famous aircrafts in both solo and 4-player co-op missions, and take them over real world locations and cities in photo-realistic environments created with the best commercial satellite data provided by GeoEye. We used the built-in performance test at two resolutions with all quality settings set to their highest values, using the DX10.1 code path for both the Radeons and GeForce 400/500 series cards.

The GeForce GTX 580 engaged its afterburners in the H.A.W.X benchmark. In this test, it takes two AMD GPUs (i.e. the Radeon HD 5970) to hang with the GTX 580. All of the single-GPU powered cards in AMD's current line-up almost seem quaint in comparison to the GTX 580.

	6870	6850	5870	5850	5970	GTX 460	GTX 470	GTX 480	GTX 580
% Increase	92.9%	96.1%	72.5%	72.1%	58.2%	96%	84.8%	65.2%	46.1%

The same trend we saw in the single-card tests rings true in our SLI / CrossFire testing, except this time around it takes four AMD GPUs to outpace two GeForce GTX 580s.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gaming, graphics, GPU, dx11, GTX 580

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