NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges
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Like its predecessor, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative, survival horror, first-person shooter that pits four players against numerous hordes of Zombies. Like Half Life 2, the game uses the Source engine, however, the visuals in L4D 2 are far superior to anything seen in the Half Life universe to date. The game has much more realistic water and lighting effects, more expansive maps with richer detail, more complex models, and the list goes on and on. We tested the game at various resolutions with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering enabled and all in game graphical options set to their maximum values. |
All of the cards we tested are able to easily handle Left 4 Dead 2, as is evidenced by the relatively high framerates across the board here. Regardless, the GeForce GTX 580, once again, puts up the strongest performance of any other single-GPU. The Radeon HD 5970, however, couldn't be touched.
| 6870 | 6850 | 5870 | 5850 | 5970 | GTX 460 | GTX 470 | GTX 480 | GTX 580 | |
| % Increase | 39.8% | 63.8% | 23.9% | 46.1% | 1% | 47.4% | 26.1% | 16.9% | 10.1% |
