MSI N580GTX Lightning

Published by Marc Büchel on 06.07.11
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Overclocking

For our overclocking test we were using MSI Afterburner in version 2.1 which allows you to increase voltages and clock frequencies. Feeding the GPU with an additional 0.93 volt resulted in a maximum clock speed of 970 MHz on the GPU. Regarding the memory we were able to squeeze 4'500 MHz out of these chips. The true overclocking potential you'll discover once you choose to cool this card using liquid nitrogen. For this purpose you can download a special BIOS version which removes any cold-bug related issues and deactivate all the different protection mechanisms like overcurrent- and overheat-protection.



Futuremark Overclocking

3DMark 11 Total Score Percent
ASUS EAH6990 (980 MHz / 5'756 MHz) 9'201 170.92 %
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) 8'625 160.22 %
ASUS GTX 590 (681 MHz / 3'620 MHz) 8'572 159.24 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 (673 MHz / 3'602 MHz) 8'564 159.09 %
ASUS GTX 590 8'123 150.90 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 8'043 149.41 %
MSI GTX 580 Lightning (GPU 970 MHz / Mem 4'500 MHz) 7'103 131.95 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII (GPU 952 MHz / Mem 4'568 MHz) 6'512 120.97 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966 MHz / Mem 2'332 MHz) 6'212  115.40 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII (GPU 939 MHz / Mem 4'056 MHz) 6'199 115.16 %
MSI GTX 580 Lightning 6'048 160.08 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII 5'988 111.24 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz) 5'656 105.07 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 5'383  100.00 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz) 5'365 99.67 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII 5'273 97.96 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top (GPU 1'009 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz) 5'003 92.94 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764 MHz) 4'733 87.92 %
ASUS EAH6950 4'606 85.57 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top 4'551 84.54 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz) 4'125 76.63 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock 3'754  69.74 %
ASUS GTX 550 Ti DirectCU Top (1100 MHz / 2800 MHz) 3'067 56.98 %
ASUS GTX 550 Ti DirectCU Top 2'717 50.47 %
ASUSEAH5550 (868 MHz / 1'134 MHz) 1'519 28.22 %
ASUS ENGT440 (925 MHz / 980 MHz) 1'492 27.72 %
ASUS ENGT430 (880 MHz / 1052 MHz) 1'352 25.12 %
ASUS ENGT440 1'327 24.65 %
ASUS ENGT430 1'075 19.97 %
ASUS EAH5550 1'017 18.89 %
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3DMark 11 GPU Score Percent
ASUS EAH6990 (980 MHz / 5'756 MHz) 11'047 193.91 %
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) 9'977 175.13 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 (673 MHz / 3'602 MHz) 9'786 171.77 %
ASUS GTX 590 (681 MHz / 3'620 MHz) 9'724 170.69 %
ASUS GTX 590 8'914 156.47 %
NVIDIA GTX 590 8'854 155.42 %
MSI GTX 580 Lightning (GPU 970 MHz / Mem 4'500 MHz) 7'346 128.95 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966 MHz / Mem 2'332 MHz) 6'679  117.24 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII (GPU 952 MHz / Mem 4'568 MHz) 6'731 118.15 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII (GPU 939 MHz / Mem 4'056 MHz) 6'151 107.97 %
MSI GTX 580 Lightning 5'952 178.47 %
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII 5'872 103.53 %
ASUS ENGTX 580 5'697  100.00 %
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII  (974 MHz / Mem 5'872 MHz) 5'510 96.72 %
ASUS EAH6970 (GPU 1'001 MHz / Mem 3'008 MHz) 5'191 91.12 %
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII 5'082 89.20 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top (GPU 1'009 MHz / Mem 4'708 MHz) 4'837 84.90 %
ASUS EAH6950 (GPU 986 MHz / Mem 5'764 MHz) 4'641 81.46 %
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top 4'341 76.20 %
ASUS EAH6950 4'108 72.11 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock (GPU 951 MHz / Mem 4'300 MHz) 4'022 70.60 %
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock 3'562  62.52 %
ASUS GTX 550 Ti DirectCU Top (1100 MHz / 2800 MHz) 2'777 48.74 %
ASUS GTX 550 Ti DirectCU Top 2'440 42.83 %
ASUS EAH5550 (868 MHz/ 1'134 MHz) 1'340 23.52 %
ASUS ENGT440 (925 MHz/ 980 MHz) 1'309 22.98 %
ASUS ENGT430 (880 MHz / 1052 MHz) 1'185 20.80 %
ASUS ENGT440 1'160 20.36 %
ASUS ENGT430 937 16.45 %
ASUS EAH5550 882 15.48 %
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Page 1 - Introduction Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions Page 10 - Conclusion



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