september 15 2010 review by hardwarecanucks

This card has an improved power distribution layout to get higher clock speeds.

Conclusion:

This video card stands out from the crowd, it has been factory overclocked and has a huge heatsink, making it the coolest card in the test. This card's performance puts it above the ATI Redeon HD5770 and it is a lot faster than the standard model, this card is near-perfect. The only downside perhaps was a somewhat higher power draw.

Overclocking:

Without changing the voltage, the GPU Core was OCed @ 959Mhz and The GDDR5 RAM @ 4240Mhz. After tweaking the voltage the result for the GPU Core was 981Mhz. The manufacturer also includes SmartDoctor overclocking software in the bundle.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i7 920
• RAM : 6GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz
• Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
• Computer Case : CoolIT Boreas mTEC
• Optical Drive : Pioneer DVD Writer
• HDD : WD Caviar Black 640GB
• PSU : Corsair HX1000W
• Display : Samsung 305T 30 inch
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Compared To:

• ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB Reference Card
• ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB Reference Card
• EVGA GTS 450 FTW 1GB
• GeForce GTS 250 1GB Reference Card
• GeForce GTS 450 1GB Reference Card
• GeForce GTX 460 768MB Reference Card

Benchmarks:

Acoustics, Aliens Versus Predator, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Core Temperature, DiRT 2, Far Cry 2, Folding @ Home Performance test, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033, Power Draw, Starcraft II, Unigine: Heaven.