Nvidia Geforce GTX 580 SLI vs. Geforce GTX 680 SLI

[Sumeetay.Deol]

Hello friends, I was planning to take a new graphics card for my system and got stuck with two cards, so does not know which one I should go for, need some suggestion about it and it will be really nice if some is using anyone of them, they will be able to tell how good performance does card is giving it. Wanted to have a card for game, so please help me out with it. Thank you.

[Dixie-R]

The new flagship GPU based on GF110. As we noted in our extensive review already described, is that GF110 architecturally identical to the GF100 chip from Nvidia Geforce GTX 480. By their own words "against all transistors to the light" but Nvidia has the power of the card managed to bring back a lot and at the same time to increase performance slightly. Further, the Geforce GTX 580 all 512 shadier units of the chip enabled, the GTX 480, there were just 480. All in all, showed the GTX 580 according to our tests, a 20 percent faster, with lower power consumption and a much lower noise. Looking at the performance of the Geforce GTX 580 than you might think that there remains little to be desired. Even in our benchmarks at 1920x1080 with 4X AA is the GTX 580 in almost all games on perfectly playable frame rates. But what if you want to use an even higher resolution such as 2560x1600 30 "screens? Or if you have three screens in a (3D) Vision Surround setup will be pressing? Or when 4xAA is not enough? Or if you simply per as highest benchmark scores to achieve? Then one or more additional GTX 580's in an SLI setup may not be a luxury. A 4-way SLI setup with four GTX 480's extensively tested. This time we do it again but with Nvidia new cards. I have taken the Silverstone 1500 watt power supply will be back, went looking for the fastest processor in our test lab and were able to work for an extended Geforce GTX 580 SLI test.

[Emeryjon]

In a race against the clock it was who first Nvidia partner ASUS Geforce GTX 680 delivered to us, the ASUS GTX680-2GD5. As usual with the launch of a new high-end graphics card, the models of different brands, in fact reference cards with their own imprint, so even with this. The ASUS card looks so tad hipper out with a line game that merges into the ASUS logo. Zotac also manages to very urgently one of their first Geforce GTX 680 in our test lab to deliver. The Zotac Geforce GTX 680 2GB is a reference card with its own imprint. Well Zotac delivers a bundle of games with the Assassin's Creed series. The specifications of the ASUS and Zotac cards will not be a surprise, if read the GTX 680 review: 2 GB GDDR5 memory, 1006 MHz base clock, 1058 MHz boost clock, 1502 MHz memory clock frequency, 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x Display Port 1.2 . Important to know: ASUS and Zotac, two of NVIDIA's preferred partner for the Benelux and thus two of the brands which most likely is that you can term in stock at an (online) shop will encounter.

[singham2011]

I wanted to test the performance at 5760x1080 resolutions, but first was not possible for a matter of time. Nvidia has released new drivers immediately after its debut, and Itook the opportunity to verify that the bug had been fixed NVEnc/MPEG-2 - but it is not. I take this opportunity also to inform that index of performance per watt than the GTX 680. So it came out that I initially assessed the efficiency of Kepler than Fermi incorrectly. Nothing decisive, but a change: performance per watt compared to GTX 680 GK104 is always better than the AMD GPU Tahiti. EVGA has sent us a card with the same characteristics than the sample I have gotto us directly from Nvidia. Just what we needed to put two GTX 680 in SLI configuration. The x79 platform is not only certified both cards at the speed of the second generation PCI Express. The EVGA bundle contains a user guide, some stickers, a poster, a pair of adapters and a DVI-VGA converter.

[AnbuP]

Asus has presented, Geforce GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP your video card for use in the premium market and developed the first produced by NVIDIA GPUs to 28 nanometers. The proposal TOP from Asus is factory overclocked and will be marketed with base clock speeds of 1201 MHz, a significant increase compared to the frequency of the reference solution. To ensure proper cooling of the component, in addition, Asus has decided to produce the card with a heatsink technology DirectCU II, as reported by the company itself should be 20% more efficient than the standard cooler and quieter than 14dBa. Among the changes in this proprietary solution we find a power supply system to 10 phases DIGI with VRM which have been joined components of type super alloy. I therefore faced with a video card produced for the high end market, that 'the ultimate in overclocking.

[BonnieT]

The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560M SLI is a high-end graphics way out for notebooks based on two GTX 560M graphics cards in SLI mode. With SLI each card usually renders a single frame (AFR mode). Therefore there may be a low framerate around 30 fps, micro rings tottering action. This happened because a different interval between two frames is (e.g. two frames almost simultaneously and then a longer interval). The Geforce GTX 560M SLI supports the same properties as a single GTX 560M card. There is also support DirectX 11. The maps are naturally produced in 40nm at TSMC. The GF116 core is in fact an optimized GF106 core with the same characteristics. The chip offers 192 shaders and a 192-bit memory bus for GDDR5. More details on the GF106 architecture can be found in the Geforce GTX 460M article. In synthetic benchmarks the performance of the SLI combination similar to a single Geforce GTX 580M. All present challenging games such as Crysis 2, Witcher 2, 3 and even Dirt Metro 2033 are able to play at 1920 x 1080, maximum specify settings, and (mostly) anti-aliasing on. Like the GeForce GTX 460M supports GTX 560M Bitstream HD Audio (Blu-ray) output via HDMI. That means that just like the Radeon HD 5850, GTX 560M Dolby True HD or DTS-HD bitstream lossless to a HiFi amplifier can send. The GTX 560M gives PureVideo HD technology for video decoding.

[Girr]

The power consumption of the Geforce GTX 560M is about 75 watts (TDP counting MXM module and memory), which is comparable with the Mobility Radeon HD 5850/5870. Two cards are therefore a maximum of 150 watts and therefore consume more than a single GTX 580M. Without load the chips in 2D and 3D respectively 50/100 MHz (core / shadier) and 200/400 MHz (core / shadier) clocked to save power. Optimus is not currently supported by SLI combinations. The same desktop Geforce GTX 560 Ti is based on the GF114 chip and more shadier cores and offers significantly higher performance. The GTX 550 Ti is just like the GTX 560M based on the GF116, but has a higher clock speed. The performance is therefore comparable with two older desktop GTX 450 in SLI mode. Through CUDA, OpenCL and DirectCompute 2.1, the GeForce GTX 560M assist in overall calculations. Thus, the stream processors e.g. significantly faster video encoding than a high-end CPU can. 3D Vision makes the laptop allows 3D content (3D games, 3D web steams, 3D graphics, 3D Blu-ray) will be displayed on a built-in 3D-ready display or an external 3D-ready TV (support by laptop manufacturer is required).