April 14 2011 review by hardwareheaven

As far as performance is concerned this card has app. the same speed as a standard card. Some games will not benefit from the additional GDDR5 RAM so most benchmark results will be close to the reference card.

Compared To:

GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, Arcsoft MediaConvertor 7, Badaboom 2.0, BulletStorm, Civilization 5, Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Fraps, GPUz, Left 4 Dead 2, Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed, Noise Levels, Power draw, PowerDVD 10 Ultimate Mark II, Temperature testing, Total War: Shogun 2, Unigene Heaven Benchmark 2.5.

Overclocking:

The GPU Core was OCed @ 845 MHz.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Lian Li PC-X2000F
• CPU Water Cooler : Corsair H70
• Display : Asus VG236
• HDD : 2x Western Digital VelociRaptor
• Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate x64
• Power Supply : Corsair AX1200W
• SSD : OCZ RevoDrive X2