ASUS GTX 590
Category : NVIDIA
Published by Marc Büchel on 05.04.11
With the GTX 590 ASUS also has the NVIDIA dual GPU flagship in its portfolio. This card is based on the reference design except that ASUS marginally increased GPU and memory frequencies to get a very small advatage over their competitors. Never the less we're curious how this thing will perform in our benchmark parcours.
On the following pages we will show you the
strenghts and weaknesses of the ASUS GTX 590.
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Technical data / specifications
Regarding the GTX 590 NVIDIA
uses two GF 110 GPUs which feature lowered clock speeds. With 159 MHz less on
each GPU, compared to a standard GTX 580 single GPU card, this really is a significant change. Such a reduction of clock speeds comes with most dual GPU cards. Manufacturers do this to keep the maximum TDP within a reasonable envelope. A rough calculation shows that decreasing the clock speeds of both GPUs by 165 MHz let's NVIDIA save about 100 Watts of thermal dissipation power. A positive consequence of this measure is that they were able to put a single axial fan onto the card which operates at a resonable noise level. Furthermore NVIDIA put one massive cooling block onto each GPU which provides an efficient heat transport. Unfortunately the axial fan isn't able to blow all the air out of the case which will cause the temperature within your enclosure to rise. Therefore you really should be aware that the card can produce up to 365 Watts of thermal dissipation power and this will heat your case quite significantly. In 2D mode
and placed in a closed computer case the cards noise cannot be separated from other coolers within your system but as soon as there is heavy 3D load you'll hear it quite well.
|
ASUS GTX 590 |
NVIDIA GTX 580 |
AMD Radeon HD 6990 |
AMD Radeon HD 6970 |
Chip |
GF110 |
GF110 |
2x Cayman XT |
Cayman XT |
Process |
40 nm |
40 nm |
40 nm |
40 nm |
Transistors |
6.0 billion |
3.0billion |
5.28 billion |
2.64 billion |
GPU clock |
613 MHz |
772 MHz |
830 MHz |
880 MHz |
Shader clock |
1'215 MHz |
1'544 MHz |
830 MHz |
880 MHz |
Memory |
2 x 1'536 MB GDDR4 |
1'536 MB GDDR5 |
2x 2'048 MB GDDR5 |
2'048 MB GDDR5 |
Memory clock |
3'420 MHz |
4'000 MHz |
5'000 MHz |
5'500 MHz |
Memory interface |
384 Bit |
384 Bit |
256 Bit |
256 Bit |
Memory bandwidth |
2 x 164'160 MB/s |
192'400 MB/s |
2 x 160'000 MB/s |
176'000 MB/s |
TMUs |
2 x 64 |
64 |
2 x 96 |
96 |
TAUs |
2 x 64 |
64 |
2 x 96 |
96 |
Shader Cores |
2 x 512 (1D) |
512 (1D) |
2 x 384 (4D) |
384 (4D) |
ROPs |
2 x 48 ROP |
48 ROP |
2 x 32 ROP |
32 ROP |
Shader model |
SM 5 |
SM 5 |
SM 5 |
SM 5 |
Maximum board power |
365 Watt |
244 Watt |
350 / 450 Watt |
250 Watt |
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Preview / Delivery
For the
GTX 580 DirectCU II ASUS once again uses their standard box. Everything has its specific place and in the delivery you find an installation CD, a manual, a power adaptor, a
DVI-to-VGA-adaptor, a DVI-to-HDMI-adaptor and a SLI bridge. Therefore the delivery is sufficient but we would have loved to see an additional game in the box.
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Overclocking
For our overclocking test we used the delivered software ASUS Smartdoctor.
Although this tool allows easy an quick voltage adjustments we didn't increase
the core voltage. During our testing we had to find out that when we rose the
voltage only very little thremal throttling was the consequence which causes the
card to clock down during a benchmark in order to prevent the GPUs from
overheating. This was very annoying and when there is a possibility to test this
card with another cooler we'll try again. This time we were only able to reach a
GPU clock of 681 MHz and a memmory clock of 3'620 MHz.
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 % |
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 % |
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 % |
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more is better |
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 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 (GPU 966MHz / 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 % |
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 % |
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Test
conditions
Hardware
OS and Drivers |
- WIN7 64bit / NVIDIA
GeForce 267.91
|
Mainboard |
|
CPUs |
- Intel Core i7 965
Xtreme Edition @ 2.66Ghz (i7 920)
|
Memory |
- OCZ Blade Series
Triple Channel 3x2GB CL7.0-DDR3-1600Mhz
|
Graphic Cards |
- ASUS GTX 590
- NVIDIA GTX 590
- ASUS EAH6990 (Radeon HD 6990)
- ASUS
GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top
- Gigabyte GTX 460 Super
Overclock
- ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII
- ASUS EAH6970 2GB
- ASUS EAH6950 2GB
- ASUS ENGTX580
- ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU
- ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS
4GD5
- MSI HD R5870 Lighning
- Gigabyte 5870 SOC
- ASUS Radeon EAH 5970
- ASUS GTX470
- ASUS Radeon EAH 5870
- ASUS Radeon EAH 5850
- ASUS GTX 275 Matrix
- ASUS Matrix GTX 285
- nVidia GTX 295 SLI
- nVidia GTX 295
- EVGA 8800 GT 512MB
- ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB
SLI
- ASUS EAH3870X2
- ASUS ENGTS250 DK
|
HDD |
- Samsung Spinpoint F1
320 GByte
|
PSU
|
- OCZ Technology 1200
Watt Turbo-Cool
|
Software
Futuremark
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
|
High |
API |
DX11 |
Stereo
3D |
Disabled |
Shaders |
High |
Tessellation |
Extreme |
Anisotropy |
16 |
Anti-aliasing |
8x |
Full
Screen |
Yes |
Resolution |
1920x1080 |
Stone Giant
|
High |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Aspect |
Auto |
Tessellation |
High |
Window
Mode |
No |
World in Conflict
|
High |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Graphic
Detail |
very high |
Antialiasing |
8x |
Anisotropic
Texture Filtering |
16x |
Resident Evil 5 DX10
|
High |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Display Mode |
Full Screen |
Refresh
Rate |
60 Hz |
V-Sync |
No |
[de]Bildwiederholrate[/de]Frame
Rate |
Full Screen |
Antialiasing |
8x |
Anisotropic
Texture Filtering |
16x |
Motion
Blur |
Yes |
Shadow Detail |
High |
Texture Detail |
High |
Overall
Quality |
High |
Call of Juarez
|
High |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Display Mode |
yes |
Quality |
High |
Shadowmap
size |
2048x2048 |
Shadows
quality |
High |
Antialiasing |
4x SSAA |
Audio |
disabled |
Far Cry 2 DX10
|
High |
Resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
Antialiasing |
8x |
Direct3D |
10 |
Fire |
very high |
Physics |
very high |
Real
Trees |
very high |
Overall
Quality |
custom |
Vegetation |
very high |
Shading |
ultra high |
Terrain |
ultra high |
Geometry |
ultra high |
Post
FX |
high |
Texture |
ultra high |
Ambient |
high |
HDR |
yes |
Shadow |
ultra high |
Bloom |
yes |
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3DMark 11
3DMark 11 is
Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The
benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can
possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation,
compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different
depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the
performance preset of 3DMark 11.
3DMark
11 Total |
Score |
Percent |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
8'772 |
245.23 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
8'625 |
241.12 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
8'370 |
233.99 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
8'123 |
227.09 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
8'043 |
224.85 % |
Palit GTX 580 SLI (3DMark11 wasn't supported in SLI by nVidia
Drivers) |
5'841 |
163.29 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
5'988 |
167.40 % |
ASUS GTX 580 |
5'803 |
162.23 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
5'335 |
149.15 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
5'273 |
147.14 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
5'175 |
144.67 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI (3DMark11 wasn't supported in SLI by nVidia
Drivers) |
5'046 |
141.07 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
4'922 |
137.60 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
4'606 |
128.77 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
4'551 |
127.23 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
3'754 |
104.95 % |
ASUS EAH6850 |
3'577 |
100.00 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
3'404 |
95.16 % |
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more is better |
3DMark
11 GPU |
Score |
Percent |
AMD Radeon
HD6970 CrossFire |
10'189 |
305.52 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
9'977 |
299.16 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
9'571 |
286.98 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
8'914 |
267.29 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
8'854 |
265.49 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
5'872 |
176.07 % |
ASUS GTX 580 |
5'812 |
174.27 % |
Palit ENGTX 580 SLI (3DMark11 wasn't supported in SLI by nVidia
Drivers) |
5'697 |
170.82 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
5'132 |
153.88 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
5'082 |
152.38 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
4'949 |
148.40 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI (3DMark11 wasn't supported in SLI by nVidia
Drivers) |
4'870 |
146.03 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
4'802 |
143.99 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
4'341 |
130.16 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
4'108 |
123.18 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
3'562 |
106.81 % |
ASUS EAH6850 |
3'335 |
100.00 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
3'148 |
94.39 % |
|
more is better |
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a
recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long:
DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping,
GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to
even make recent high-end systems struggle.
3DMark
Vantage |
Score |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
36'482 |
262.50 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
25'076 |
180.43 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
24'638 |
177.28 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
24'520 |
176.43 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
24'353 |
175.22 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
24'309 |
174.91 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
23'995 |
172.65 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
23'588 |
169.72 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
22'496 |
161.86 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
21'341 |
153.55 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
21'171 |
152.42 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
19'614 |
141.13 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
19'441 |
139.88 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
19'165 |
137.90 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
19'098 |
137.41 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
19'019 |
136.85 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
18'895 |
135.95 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
18'273 |
131.48 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
18'244 |
131.27 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
17'859 |
128.50 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
17'732 |
127.58 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
17'598 |
126.62 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
17'485 |
125.81 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
16'730 |
120.37 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
16'056 |
115.52 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
16'024 |
115.30 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
15'301 |
110.09 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
14'606 |
105.09 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
13'898 |
100.00 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
13'047 |
93.87 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
12'323 |
88.09 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
9'508 |
68.41 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
8'481 |
61.02 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
6'427 |
46.24 % |
|
more is better |
3DMark
Vantage GPU |
Score |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
33'378 |
254.08 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
29'775 |
226.65 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
29'283 |
222.90 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
29'128 |
221.72 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
28'525 |
217.13 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
28'397 |
216.16 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
25'544 |
194.44 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
23'628 |
179.85 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
23'588 |
179.55 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
23'353 |
177.77 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
23'440 |
178.43 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
20'914 |
159.20 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
20'715 |
157.68 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
20'039 |
152.54 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
19'960 |
151.93 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
19'835 |
150.99 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
19'789 |
150.63 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
18'944 |
144.20 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
18'745 |
142.68 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
18'345 |
139.64 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
18'095 |
137.74 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
17'857 |
135.93 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
17'679 |
134.57 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
15'755 |
119.93 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
15'858 |
120.71 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
14'866 |
113.16 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
14'002 |
106.58 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
13'753 |
104.68 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
13'137 |
100.00 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
12'156 |
92.53 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
11'337 |
86.29 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
8'292 |
63.12 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
6'722 |
51.17 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
5'328 |
40.55 % |
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Unigine Heaven
Unigine
Heaven |
Score |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
1'484 |
420.40 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
1'247 |
353.26 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
1'223 |
346.46 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
1'217 |
344.76 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
1'183 |
335.13 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
1'276 |
361.47 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
1'122 |
317.85 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
883 |
250.14 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
812 |
230.03 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
777 |
220.11 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE SLI |
690 |
195.47 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
677 |
191.78 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
637 |
180.45 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
635 |
179.89 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
593 |
167.99 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
583 |
165.16 % |
Gigabyte GTX460
Super Overclock |
520 |
147.31 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
447 |
126.63 % |
ASUS EAH6850 |
353 |
100.00 % |
|
more is better |
Unigine
Heaven |
Average |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
58.9 fps |
420.71 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
49.5 fps |
353.57 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
48.6 fps |
347.14 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
48.3 fps |
345.00 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
47.0 fps |
335.71 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
50.7 fps |
362.14 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
44.5 fps |
317.86 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
35.3 fps |
252.14 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
32.2 fps |
230.00 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
30.9 fps |
220.71 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE SLI |
27.4 fps |
195.71 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
26.9 fps |
192.14 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
25.3 fps |
180.71 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
25.2 fps |
180.00 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
23.5 fps |
167.86 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
23.1 fps |
165.00 % |
Gigabyte GTX460
Super Overclock |
20.6 fps |
147.14 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
17.7 fps |
126.43 % |
ASUS EAH6850 |
14.0 fps |
100.00 % |
|
more is better |
Stone Giant
Stone
Giant |
Average |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
159 fps |
512.90 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
123 fps |
396.77 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
122 fps |
393.55 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
119 fps |
383.87 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
107 fps |
345.16 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE
SLI |
96 fps |
309.68 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
86 fps |
277.42 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
85 fps |
274.19 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
83 fps |
267.74 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
75 fps |
241.94 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
75 fps |
241.94 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
66 fps |
212.90 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
53 fps |
170.97 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
51 fps |
164.52 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
51 fps |
164.52 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
50 fps |
161.29 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
44 fps |
141.94 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
48 fps |
154.84 % |
ASUS EAH6850 |
31 fps |
100.00 % |
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World in Conflict
World
in Conflict, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF |
Average |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
110 fps |
164.18 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
106 fps |
179.66 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
84 fps |
142.37 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
83 fps |
140.68 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
82 fps |
138.98 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
81 fps |
137.29 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
81 fps |
137.29 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
80 fps |
135.59 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
77 fps |
130.50 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
77 fps |
130.50 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
75 fps |
127.12 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
75 fps |
127.12 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
73 fps |
123.72 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
72 fps |
122.03 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
72 fps |
122.03 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
69 fps |
116.94 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
69 fps |
116.94 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
68 fps |
115.25 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
68 fps |
115.25 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
67 fps |
113.56 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE SLI |
67 fps |
113.56 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
61 fps |
103.39 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
59 fps |
100.00 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
59 fps |
100.00 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
59 fps |
100.00 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
57 fps |
96.61 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
57 fps |
96.61 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
56 fps |
94.91 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
55 fps |
93.22 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
53 fps |
89.83 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
50 fps |
84.74 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
41 fps |
69.49 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
26 fps |
44.06 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
25 fps |
42.37 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
21 fps |
35.59 % |
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Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern
rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft
Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and
static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been
optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11
ready. By using the DirectX9 as well as the DirectX10 benchmark we can
again show you CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the
CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high
resolutions.
Resident
Evil 5, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA 16xAF |
Average |
Percent |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
162.50 fps |
169.62 % |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
140.10 fps |
146.24 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
123.20 fps |
128.60 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
119.50 fps |
124.73 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
113.60 fps |
139.46 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
113.00 fps |
117.95 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
110.20 fps |
115.03 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
109.30 fps |
114.09 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
108.60 fps |
113.36 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
108.30 fps |
113.05 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
107.30 fps |
112.00 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
107.40 fps |
112.11 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
105.70 fps |
110.33 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
105.00 fps |
109.60 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
104.30 fps |
108.87 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
103.20 fps |
107.72 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
102.90 fps |
107.41 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE SLI |
101.80 fps |
106.26 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
100.50 fps |
104.90 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
101.70 fps |
106.16 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
99.50 fps |
103.86 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
97.20 fps |
101.46 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
96.50 fps |
100.73 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
95.80 fps |
100.00 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
95.30 fps |
99.48 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
93.30 fps |
97.39 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
92.20 fps |
78.50 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
90.30 fps |
94.25 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
88.10 fps |
91.96 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
78.60 fps |
82.04 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
75.00 fps |
78.28 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
62.40 fps |
65.13 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
51.60 fps |
53.86 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
44.40 fps |
46.35 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
34.6 fps |
36.10 % |
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Call of Juarez
Call
of Juarez, 1920 x 1080, high details, 4xSSAA |
Average |
Percent |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
91.00 fps |
228.64 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
88.80 fps |
223.16 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
88.70 fps |
222.86 % |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
88.60 fps |
222.61 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
78.90 fps |
198.24 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
76.00 fps |
190.95 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
73.10 fps |
183.67 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
72.80 fps |
182.91 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
53.60 fps |
134.67 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
52.40 fps |
131.65 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE SLI |
52.00 fps |
130.65 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
51.90 fps |
130.40 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
49.20 fps |
123.62 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
48.70 fps |
122.36 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
47.60 fps |
119.59 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
46.20 fps |
116.08 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
43.20 fps |
108.54 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
42.90 fps |
107.79 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
42.50 fps |
106.78 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
41.90 fps |
105.27 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
39.80 fps |
100.00 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
39.50 fps |
99.25 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
38.80 fps |
97.48 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
37.20 fps |
93.47 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
38.00 fps |
95.47 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
34.60 fps |
86.93 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
34.20 fps |
85.92 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
33.20 fps |
83.42 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
32.10 fps |
80.65 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
32.10 fps |
80.65 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
30.70 fps |
77.14 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
28.50 fps |
71.60 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
24.50 fps |
61.56 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
13.90 fps |
34.92 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
11.50 fps |
28.89 % |
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Far Cry 2
Far
Cry 2, 1920 x 1080, high details, 8xAA |
Average |
Percent |
Palit GTX 580 SLI |
132.41 fps |
250.21 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (880 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
122.40 fps |
231.29 % |
ASUS EAH6990 (830 MHz / 5'000 MHz) |
120.76 fps |
228.19 % |
Zotac GTX480 SLI |
118.04 fps |
223.05 % |
ASUS GTX 590 |
113.17 fps |
213.85 % |
NVIDIA GTX 590 |
111.46 fps |
210.62 % |
EVGA GTX 460 SLI |
107.77 fps |
203.65 % |
AMD Radeon HD6970 CrossFire |
98.50 fps |
186.13 % |
ASUS ENGTX 580 |
98.36 fps |
185.86 % |
ASUS GTX 580 DirectCUII |
95.27 fps |
180.03 % |
ASUS ARES 5870X2 2DIS 4GD5 |
91.87 fps |
173.60 % |
ASUS GTX 570 DirectCUII |
88.83 fps |
167.86 % |
nVidia GTX 295 SLI |
86.87 fps |
164.15 % |
ZOTAC GTX 285 SLI |
84.49 fps |
159.65 % |
ASUS GTX 560 Ti DirectCUII Top |
84.00 fps |
158.73 % |
ASUS EAH5970 |
80.35 fps |
153.48 % |
ZOTAC GTX 275 1792MB SLI |
79.51 fps |
150.24 % |
ASUS EAH6970 2GB |
79.21 fps |
149.68 % |
ASUS HD6970 DirectCUII |
77.54 fps |
146.52 % |
Gigabyte GTX460 Super Overclock |
74.37 fps |
140.53 % |
ASUS EAH6950 2GB |
71.40 fps |
134.92 % |
Zotac GTX 480 |
68.87 fps |
118.80 % |
nVidia GTX 295 |
66.72 fps |
126.08 % |
ASUS GTX 470 |
64.51 fps |
121.90 % |
EVGA GTX 460 EE |
60.66 fps |
114.63 % |
Gigabyte HD5870 Super Overclock |
59.21 fps |
111.88 % |
MSI HD 5870 Lightning |
55.66 fps |
105.17 % |
ASUS EAH5870 |
54.99 fps |
103.91 % |
ASUS EAH6850 DirectCU |
54.14 fps |
102.30 % |
ASUS EAH5850 |
52.92 fps |
100.00 % |
ASUS GTX285 Matrix |
49.69 fps |
93.89 % |
MSI GTX 275 Lightning |
42.31 fps |
79.95 % |
ASUS ENGTS250 DK |
17.95 fps |
33.92 % |
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB |
15.73 fps |
29.72 % |
ASUS EAH3870X2 |
10.21 fps |
19.30 % |
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Conclusion
General |
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ASUS' latest dual GPU
graphics card leaves us with mixed feelings. On one hand there is this
cards resonable noise level (for a dual GPU solution) and on the other
we see that it simply isn't able to keep up with AMDs Radeon HD 6990.
The fact that the core clocks had to be reduced by a massive 159 MHz
really compromises the performance but the dissipation power is still
way above 350 Watts. Therefore it also isn't exactly what one might call
energy efficient. Never the less this mix of performance and noise level
results in an intereseting card. |
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- 2D silent
- Not too lound in 3D
mode |
-
Dissipation power |
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Performance |
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Overall
the NVIDIA GTX 590 isn't able to keep up with a Radeon HD 6990 but never
the less the performance is on an impressingly high level. Therefore buying this card will be very future proof. NVIDIAs dual GPU card has only been able to outperform AMDs flagship in very few benchmarks. Generally its simply lacks behind because of the clock speeds which are too low. Reasons for buying this card over a HD 6990 are for example the support of 3D Vision Surround as well as PhysX. |
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- Performance in general
- 3D Vision Surround with
one card |
- Can't reach a HD 6990 |
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Overclocking |
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- |
At this point we used the ASUS Smartdoctor Software which
allows to manipulate GPU, shader and memory clock
speeds as well as the core voltages. Unfortunately already the slightest
increase concerning the GPU voltage caused thermal throttling. With the
card clocking down during a benchmark the preformance decreased by
almost 20 percent. This in mind we didn't touch the core voltage for our
overclocking tests and we managed to squeeze 681 MHz out of the GPU and
3'620 off the memory. |
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- small overclocking potential
- Thermal
throttling when core voltage increased |
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Recommendation |
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If you should be looking for
a single card which allows you to power a 3D vision surround setup the
ASUS
GTX 590 will definitely be the right choice. It will also be perfect for you if you want
to own the fastest NVIDIA card around. Unfortunately this isn't the
fastest card available at the moment. This time the performance crown
goes to AMDs Radeon HD 6990. |
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High-End
Gaming |
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The ASUS GTX 590 can be bought at Digitec to a price
of CHF 749.- (535 €). |
Author: Marc Büchel,
m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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