Gigabyte GTX580 Super Overclock Review
Conclusion
Published: 20th October 2011 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £419 |
Conclusion
What can we say about the Gigabyte GTX580 Super Overclock that isn't obvious to anyone who has read the preceding pages? And if you haven't read the preceding pages, stop skipping to the conclusion and go back, there is a wealth of useful information there.
When we heard that there would be an overclocked version of the GTX580 we confess we were fairly nonplussed. It wouldn't be the first factory overclocked card, and we've seen a few that have good performance so it really had to be something special to catch our eye.
Something special it most certainly is. The looks capture you first. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing card if you like little touches that don't add anything, but if you appreciate epic engineering then it's most certainly a charmer. The thin-ness of the card is a particular highlight as tri-fan solutions normally mean triple-slot too. This is, albeit a few mm, but thinner than the dual-height PCI bracket. Not only has it got three big PWM fans and a huge load of fins, but it's got a genuine vapour-chamber too, and this really moves the cooling into another league.
Performance is even more startling than the cooling though. In a lot of our tests it provided the highest GTX580 score we've ever seen and was often either neck and neck, or even above, some of the dual-GPU setups we tested. It's staggering. Our thesaurus has been well-thumbed trying to find other superlatives to describe the GTX580 SOC, and we think that says it all.
If you want the fastest single-GPU on the market, look no further. This is insanely fast. If you want to take your overclock to new levels it has that covered too. Both with the dual-BIOS LN2 switch, or just on air with the OC Guru software. We saw north of 1GHz on the core capable of stability on most of our tests, and with a little extra time for those finite tweaks we're sure it would be stable on anything you threw at it.
We love it, you'll love it. It's so phenomenal that not only is it worthy of our Gold Award, but our performance award too. Stunning.
Thanks to Gigabyte for providing the GTX580SOC for review. Discuss in our forums.
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Actually two costs 946£. Gotta love the prizes in Norway
Gigabyte need to scrap the blue PCB though it looks nasty to me, black PCB FTW
Loved the witcher scene
. I have a blue motherboard PCB so it matches .One to look at in todays review is the 8xAA here. I'd go out on a limb and say that the reference 580 can-not be faster than either an oc'd 580 or indeed this card. (I'll bow to anyone who can explain how the same tech running slower can produce a faster result however)
I've noticed it in something like the 6970 reviews onwards. The base cards in many graphs being faster than the 'technically' faster card. This, not only is "wrong", but shows that something is wrong with the system being used for testing.
I'll harp on about it again, but I *think* it's your Windows 7 setups. Of course I can be wrong, but that's where I'd be looking.
Good write-up tho.
(where's my tissues)
i can only dream of the scores (FPSs) i would get on my rig with one of these bad boys in it.
(too many plans for the new build)
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Originally Posted by silenthill
can someone tell me why is it in a OC situation the card has lower minimum FPS than the cards default OC and that's in some games only, is it to do with the OC of the video memory because I have heard that DDR 5 performance degrades when pushed to far. |
but i think its minus the vapour chamber|
Originally Posted by thestepster
this isnt there first jump into triple fan coolers i had a 470 SOC and that had that exact cooler but i think its minus the vapour chamber |
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also folding the same WU with my matrix (at stock), i get the same ppd as you were getting with it OCed ? weird, and when i turned up the volts and the clock to what you have in your review i was getting around 20.7 - 21.1k ppd with it.... BUT it was hotter and much too loud.
. I'm not sure why mine and TTL's results show a lower average FPS than a regular 580 on Unigine, but better results on the Games.
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Originally Posted by kilobravo
Think its what platform you use.Yours is 1155 and TTL use the 1366. |
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Originally Posted by yassarikhan786
I'm talking about his Gigabyte SOC result and mine. There is only a 1-2 frame difference, hence why I said our results are similar. I was comparing the Gigabyte cards result with the regular 580, which has a higher fps for unigine. |
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Originally Posted by badtaylorx
ive been tending to focus on min fps lately.......and i almost switchd to nvidia whilst ditchin my bulldozer rig for a sandy rig.....but i think ill stick with my 6970cfx |
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Originally Posted by yassarikhan786
6970cfx is an awesome setup mate, why would you even think about replacing them, unless they are too loud and hot. My min framerates are generally quite good, but on heaven the lowest I got was 5fps, which was at the beginning when the benchmark was starting so I'm not bothered. |
I'm french from Dijon.
Here my bench score:
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/3...nigine2011.png
My CPU is overcloked :
Intel Core I3 530 2,93 Ghz to 3,9 Ghz
Free voltage and C6 State ON (1,8 to 3,9 Ghz)
Memory :
G.Skills Pi series 2000 Mhz cas 6 (2 x 2Go)
My GTX 480 is overclocked :
OC / STOCK
-GPU= 814 / 700 Mhz
-Shader= 1628 / 1401 Mhz
-Memory= 4250 / 3696 Mhz
-Voltage= 1,138 / 1,038 V
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Originally Posted by Lanic29
Hi everyone , i show my benchmark score to compare with others ! I'm french from Dijon. Here my bench score: http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/3...nigine2011.png |
A nice result you got there. It seems Unigine heaven doesn't like the Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC. Would you care to do a Crysis 2 Benchmark with the same settings as TTL, just so we can see what results you get
. I ran the benchmark using the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool and my Crysis 2 average with TTL's settings was 56.5.
! He cannot find the Crysis2.exe !!! I think it's because Crysis 2 is not installed on my Windows C: hard drive but in another one (E
.If you want me to do a different bench , please tell me witch one
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Originally Posted by Lanic29
Hi , i can't run this benchmark ! He cannot find the Crysis2.exe !!! I think it's because Crysis 2 is not installed on my Windows C: harddrive but in another one (E.If you want me to do a different bench , please tell me wich one |
- Rage
- Dead Island
- Deus EX Revolution
- Street Fighter 4
- DIRT 3
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Originally Posted by Lanic29
No Metro 2033 sorry , but : - Rage - Dead Island - Deus EX Revolution - Street Fighter 4 - DIRT 3 |
.Booooooobies!
Hung like a donkey."
Made me lol.
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