NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges
3DMark Vantage Performance
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark Vantage, is specifically bound to Windows Vista-based systems because it uses some advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 10, which y isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark Vantage isn't simply a port of 3DMark06 to DirectX 10 though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, in addition to support for the latest PC hardware. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark Vantage's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1200 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
| 6870 | 6850 | 5870 | 5850 | 5970 | GTX 460 | GTX 470 | GTX 480 | GTX 580 | |
| % Increase | 88.0% | 90.9% | 74.8% | 76.4% | 67.6% | 91.3% | 90.2% | 76.2% | 78.2% |
The tables turn in our multi-GPU tests. Due to suprerior scaling, the GeForce GTX 580 SLI configuration is the fastest of the bunch, outperforming even the four GPUs that comprise the Radeon HD 5970 CrossFire configuration and decimating the pair of Radeon HD 5870s.
