NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Launch Review

The best current system on the market today forms the basis of the video card test platform here at motherboards.org. A Core i7-980X is the fastest of the Intel 6 core CPUs on the market, an ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard is the best X58 board I have and 24GB of DDR3-1866MHz Kingston memory is overkill for video cards in most situations. The tests we used were all DirectX 11 with the exception of Just Cause 2, which is just a fun game to play.

Test System

•            ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard

•            Intel Core i7 980X CPU 3.33GHz

•            24GB Kingston DDR3-1866MHz memory

•            Thermaltake SpinQ CPU cooler

•            NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 running Forceware 262.99

•            Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition

•            Thermaltake ToughPower XT 850 PSU

Tests

•            Uningine Heaven benchmark 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark

•            Just Cause 2 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark

•            AVP 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough

•            Dirt2 1920x1200 8x FSAA 16x AF benchmark