ASUS ENGTX580 Review Index
- 1 – Meet with ASUS’s ENGTX 580
- 2 – ASUS ENGTX580 Features
- 3 – ASUS ENGTX580 OpenGL performances
- 4 – ASUS ENGTX580 Direct3D performances
- 5 – ASUS ENGTX580 OpenCL performances
- 6 – ASUS ENGTX580 DirectCompute performances
- 7 – ASUS ENGTX580 Power consumption and overclocking
4 – ASUS ENGTX580 Direct3D performances
4.1 Unigine Heaven (DirectX 11)
OpenGL tests have been finished on Unigine Heaven, what a better transition than starting Direct3D tests with Unigine Heaven 2.1, this time using the Direct3D 11 render path.
Settings: 1920×1080 fullscreen, tessellation: normal, shaders: high, 4X MSAA, 16X anisotropic filtering.
47.6 FPS, Scores: 1200 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| 39.4 FPS, Scores: 991 – EVGA GeForce GTX 480 |
26.8 FPS, Scores: 674 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| 25.9 FPS, Scores: 653 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| 25.6 FPS, Scores: 646 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 |
| 16.6 FPS, Scores: 419 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
4.2 MSI Kombustor (Direct3D 9)
MSI Kombustor 1.1.3 has been used for the test. MSI Kombsutor is a Direct3D 9, 10, 11 and OpenGL 2 and 3 stress test and benchmark. I only tested the Direct3D 9 rendering.
Settings: 1920×1080 fullscreen, no AA, no postFX, 60sec, Unlock power draw CHECKED (the real benchmark mode!).
| 2378 (40FPS) – ASUS ENGTX580 *** OCP UNLOCKED *** |
| 1991 – EVGA GeForce GTX 480 |
| 1962 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| 1833 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| 1738 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| 1595 – MSI GeForce GTX 470 |
| 1201 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| 943 – MSI R5770 Hawk (Cat 10.7) |
4.3 Lost Planet 2 (DirectX 11)
Lost Planet 2 has been used for the test.
Settings: 1920×1080 fullscreen, test A.
| 79.9 FPS – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| 60.2 FPS – EVGA GeForce GTX 480 |
| 48.8 FPS – MSI GeForce GTX 470 |
| 39 FPS – ASUS EAH6870 |
| 38 FPS – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| 37.3 FPS – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| 23 FPS – MSI R5770 Hawk |
4.4 Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 (DirectX 11)
HAWX2 is a Direct3D 11 benchmark, promoted by NVIDIA, with tessellation.
Settings: 1920×1080, tessellation ON, AA: 4X
| Avg FPS: 185 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| Avg FPS: 181 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| Avg FPS: 137 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| Avg FPS: 136 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| Avg FPS: 108 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| Avg FPS: 98 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
4.5 NVIDIA Island Demo: Tessellation (Direct3D 11)
NVIDIA Island demo is a D3D11 demo focused on, what a surprise, tessellation!
Settings: windowed (default size) and default params (tess factor: 12).
| FPS: 57 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| FPS: 46 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| FPS: 25 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| FPS: 13 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| FPS: 11 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| FPS: 10 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
4.6 DirectX SDK SubD11: Tessellation (Direct3D 11)
SubD11 is a Direct3D tessellation demo from the DirectX 11 SDK June 2010.
Settings: 1920×1080 windowed, tessellation: 8X
| FPS: 250 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| FPS: 220 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| FPS: 135 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| FPS: 74 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| FPS: 60 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| FPS: 53 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
Settings: 1920×1080 windowed, tessellation: 16X
| FPS: 118 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| FPS: 102 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| FPS: 59 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| FPS: 19 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| FPS: 16 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| FPS: 15 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
Settings: 1920×1080 windowed, tessellation: 24X
| FPS: 51 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| FPS: 44 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| FPS: 27 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| FPS: 8 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| FPS: 8 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| FPS: 7 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
Settings: 1920×1080 windowed, tessellation: 31X
| FPS: 30 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| FPS: 26 – EVGA GTX 480 |
| FPS: 16 – MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 OC |
| FPS: 5 – ASUS EAH6870 |
| FPS: 4 – ATI Radeon HD 5870 |
| FPS: 4 – MSI R5770 Hawk |
4.7 3DMark06 (Direct3D 9)
3DMark06 is one of the most used Direct3D 9 benchmark. It’s still interesting to have the scores for this benchmark.
Settings: default settings.
| Score: 22379 (SM2: 8212, SM3: 11585, CPU: 5805) – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| Score: 22162 (SM2: 8296, SM3: 11321, CPU: 5737) – EVGA GTX480 |
4.8 Aquamark 3 (Direct3D 9)
Aquamark 3 is a popular Direct3D 9 benchmark. Under Windows Vista or Seven, you have to install this patch. I posted the scores just for the fun because I don’t know if this tool is still representative of modern cards like GeForce GTX 500 / Radeon HD 6000…
Settings: default: 1024×768, fullscreen, 0XMSAA, 4X aniso.
| GFX:23892, CPU:21728 – ASUS ENGTX580 |
| GFX:24087, CPU:21775 – EVGA GTX480 |
Great stuff indeed! Awesome test JegO! 😉
Some minor mistakes at the parts where you mention Asus Smartdoctor and at 4.5 Direct X SDK.
All this is tesselation is nice and cool, but the problem is that from all these benchmarks you can only actually play LP2 and Hawx and Hawx is running pretty nicely everywhere anyway.
Personally I am having my eyes turned at the 570 or 69XX since the 580 is too expensive for my taste and I am aiming for SLI anyway since I am upgrading from 5850 crossfire and just one card wouldn’t cut it. I will be CPU limited anyway even with the 570s, as were a couple of the tests in this review.
PS Aquamark FTW yay! 😀
Thanks Psolord for the feedback. Mistakes fixed!
wth!! wait till HD6970 launches
bakre ki amma kab tak khair manayegi
Excellent material in this review, but as mentioned by Psolord only two tests are playable games and we would like to see some more heavy game testing; IE. Crysis, Metro2033, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Supreme Commander 2 and so on.
@Krian, @Psolord: I’ll try to improve my next review with some games. Thanks for the feedbacks!
The thing is GTX 580 is the overall best video card ever made giving you an awesome experience of PhysX and DX 11 Tesselation
All hail Nvidia
mighting GTX 580
ati can never overtake the GOD (Nvidia)
@Sachin
In one word, I agree about the 580 being the best card right now. The problem is that it is still slower than the 5970 and that’s a one year old card, not to mention that it’s God awful expensive.
Also there are solutions that are both cheaper and faster right now, like 6870 CFX or GTX 460 SLI.
Now using expression like “all hail Nvidia” and such, quickly demotes you to the fanboy realm.
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the problem with real life gaming and benchmarks are really two different things Nvidia cards MIGHT SEEM be slower in a benchmark but what people Really need to remember is games as far back as i can rememeber even that crazy dos version of GTA is FRAME LIMITER when you play games all games are frame limited to 60fps MAX some are still on 30FPS a dvd is 25fps then you must remember ATI or AMD who ever you want to call them is does not work with every title some games need Physic’s or some other instruction that Nvidia can only do,Nvidia offer Compatabilitie
with every game, every application,so that been said there are many games you will get better performance out of because they written the game for Nvidia in mine or they need instruction sets that only Nvidia cards have, the hardware fact is they last far longer then any ATI card I have a TNT card that still works I use that card in a media server as for ATI cards back then no chance.