April 14 2011 review by bjorn3d

This card was able to provide an outstanding performance when compared to the reference version. It falls behind the performance of lower high-end cards like the Palit GTX460 Sonic Platinum or Palit GTX560 Ti Sonic with tessellation-heavy DirectX 11 textures. For people on a budget : This video card gives you value for money.

Compared To:

AMD RADEON HD 6850 1 GB GDDR 5, Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum 1 GB GDDR 5, Palit GTX 560 Ti Sonic 1 GB GDDR 5.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2011, 3D Mark Vantage, Crysis: Warhead, H.A.W.X 2, Lost Planet, Power Consumption, StoneGiant, Temperature Test, Unigine Heaven 2.1.

Overclocking:

The reviewers did not perform any overclocking.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : In-Win Dragon Rider
• CPU : Intel Core i7 930
• CPU Cooler : Thermalright True Black 120 with 2x Noctua NF-P12 Fans
• HDD : 3x Seagate Baracuda 1TB 7200.12 Drives RAID 5
• Memory : Kingston HyperX T1 Black Edition 12 GB DDR3 @1600 Mhz
• Motherboard : GIGABYTE G1. Sniper
• Optical Drive : ASUS DVD-RW
• PSU : SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W