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GTX 580 Owners Thread

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We've been talking a lot but no pics and benchies! Got my first two SCs from Newegg today with the 3rd coming tomorrow. I'll try to get some benchmarks up later tonight.

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got my 580 to day installed and running some benchs got 30k in Vantage
 
I received mine yesterday and am enjoying it... nice and quiet/cool :), very fast :D.
 
Ordered two today to replace my two 5870s. Should have them the 16th. I got two EVGAs with the lifetime warranty from Amazon.
 
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BLOWN AWAY by the heaven benchmark on max settings in 3D (1680x1050 4xAA)
(coming from a pair of 8800GTS 512s)
i kinda wish it was a real game hehehehe

can't wait to bring home my 30incher for the weekend ;) ;)

currently set at 825core/2100mem with evga precision, my initial attempt at 850/2200 failed about a minute into the benchmark
perhaps there's voltage settings to play with? (never really bothered to OC graphics cards in the past)

of note to folding users:
fahmon estimates 17000 ppd per card

also of note:
it seems the initialization code (BIOS option ROM?) is larger for these cards, because my motherboard is suddenly complaining about not having enough space when
it gets to the ICH10 RAID init (i'm running an Adaptec RAID as well - i may have to consolidate and get a RAID card with a higher port count - an unexpected expense :( )
 
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Mine arrives next week... :(

EK are also releasing a 580 block after the 24th, so I'll be buying one of those for it as well.
 
Rizen said:
Ordered two today to replace my two 5870s. Should have them the 16th. I got two EVGAs with the lifetime warranty from Amazon.
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I am awaiting for the 69xx series to be released before making a decision to upgrade from my 5870's. But I def like these new cards. Please let me know how the performance is compared to your 5870's.

Thx!!!
 
The Cobra said:
I am awaiting for the 69xx series to be released before making a decision to upgrade from my 5870's. But I def like these new cards. Please let me know how the performance is compared to your 5870's.

Thx!!!
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that's what I am doing as well....
 
My 580 is running nicely at 860mhz core/stock ram/auto fan, with 1.050v instead of the stock 1.025v in Afterburner... :D. Anyone else find a nice sweet spot for their card?
 
This is my first foray into SLI on the desktop. Picked up two EVGA GTX 580 SC's the other day. Very happy with the purchase thus far. Currently running at the stock SC overclock but plan on getting some more out of the OC when I find some time to do it.
 
Le037 said:
can you run two 580s with a PC Power & Cooling 750W ?
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Doubtful. Even GTX 470 SLI required a decent ~800w unit (my mediocre 750w couldn't do it without heating up a lot and ramping its fan) to run an overclocked i7 system with, and 480's people always recommended 950w-1kw PSU's. I personally am running a Corsair TX950 which powered my 470 SLI and oc'd i7 rig awesomely, and would handle 580 SLI nicely as far as I can imagine.

EDIT: Now running 1.063v, 870mhz core, 4300mhz on the RAM... fan speed still auto. I'll probably be able to push a little further on these clocks but thus far they have been rock-solid through lengthy Just Cause 2 & BFBC2 multiplayer sessions.

I tried going to 1.138v but my card does NOT like to run that, it crashes on the desktop quickly even with clocks that ran fine at lower voltages, let alone trying to overclock... 1.125v works, but I'm probably going to stick to whatever I can do on 1.063v for temps and the low noise profile. I'm not going to trade the silence for an extra 50mhz on the core ;).
 
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I've got an EVGA GTX 580 SC running at 900 Mhz Core/1800 Shader right now. Haven't touched the memory. Not sure if it's stable yet, but so far so good with the provided EVGA artifact detecting utility.

Edit: Fail! Going back to 850 Core for now.
 
Just replaced my GTX 480 SLI setup with one 580

I have to say, I love the quiet and cool nature of the card. Can't decide if I want another or not. I have a left over GTX 285 for my extra monitors. The low temps and speed is fantastic with just one. . Honestly, I hated running my 480s in SLI because of the temperature my office rose to, so I usually just ran one 480 on my games.

Loving this new beast so far! The quiet and cool factor alone was worth the upgrade.
 
Replaced my 5870 1GB with a 580, I'm loving it. Not sure if it's worth it per se, but I'm a moron. :) Definitely better performance and I'm just glad to be back with nvidia.

Did some comparisons before I switched, running at 1920x1200 (settings may not have always been the highest, but they were the same between the 2 tests)...

Heaven 2.1
5870=33.6 FPS
580=57 FPS

Dirt 2
5870=41.88 average FPS
580=109.38 average FPS

Just Cause 2
In order of the 3 scenes
5870=46.45, 56.41, 36.96
580=83.01, 108.22, 58.91

I can't seem to get 3DMark Vantage to work with the 580, it gives me an error that it can't do the 1280 x whatever. Too bad the 3DMark 11 hadn't come out yet to compare.

As far as the temps and fan noise, it's typical stock fan to me. Meaning not bad at idle, but louder and hotter than I'd like in load. I'd still be curious to see what 3rd party fan cooling comes out, because I always prefer those. The Twin Turbos I had on my 5870 ran it about 20 degrees cooler than the stock cooler and it was quieter. I dread cranking up Civ 5 on the 580, cuz Civ 5 hammered the hell out of my 5870, so this is going to get loud and annoying.
 
Right first of all this is going to a long post so I apologise in advance. :D

I fitted the GTX 580 last Friday night after benchmarking my old (ha, not that old actually) HD 5870 CFX setup using the 10.10e Hotfix drivers and the 10/11/10 CAP2 so I could compare them directly. I got mine from Dabs.com (I'm from the UK), it's a Point of View model and it came in a ridiculously oversized box. The contents are disappointing, no leads, just a mini-HDMI to HDMI adaptor, a brief manual and a defective driver disc (it had a hole in the middle of it!!!). Oh and obviously there was the graphics card too. It is 10.5 inches long so about the same size as the HD 5870 cards but the power connectors, 8+6 pin PCI-E, are on the side not the end so it looks smaller when fitted inside the case plus it was much more straight forward to install in my Cooler Master Centurion 590 case.

Installation was easy. I just booted into Windows having already done an Express Uninstall of the Catalyst drivers and the Standard VGA drivers were installed automatically. It was just a case of installing the v262.99 WHQL drivers I'd already downloaded, rebooting then running Driver Sweeper to remove all remaining traces of the HD 5870 drivers. Easy-peasy. Everything went smoothly and I've had no crashes or freezes from switching cards. All the games I tested automatically detected the new card and reconfigured themselves. One minor annoyance though was that the old 59 Hz bug is back in some games, specifically Devil May Cry 4 had a maximum selectable resolution of 1600x1200 with 60 Hz but setting 59 Hz in the game menu let me set the correct 1920x1200. Pro Evo Soccer 2010 has the v-synced option unchecked because of this too. This issue never reared its ugly head with the HD 5870 cards so its disappointing that it still haunts the NVIDIA cards.

Oh well, enough of the griping, on to the good stuff!

Idle temperatures with this card are 33-36 C on my system which is terrific as my HD 5870s idled at 39 C and 49 C (the latter because of the 2D bug that left my second card running at 400/1250 MHz if I used Internet Explorer 9 beta). The maximum temperature I saw during benchmarking was 82 C for Devil May Cry 4 when it was running at 300 fps! The average temperature during gaming seems to be around 75C with v-sync engaged but even with uncapped games the fan does a great job of keeping the temperatures stable. Idle temps are quickly restored upon exiting to the desktop.

So is it noisy then keeping those temps at bay? Not at all. The default fan speed is 40% and the card is only audible if I put my ear on the side of the case but from my sitting position which is to the left and above the case (which sits on a carpetted floor on rubber feet) I can't hear it at all (and my PC is very quiet; that SSD certainly helps!). The maximum fan speed I saw was 60% and, again, that was certainly no noisier than my HD 5870 CFX setup which were Sapphire Vapor-X models. In fact, it was quieter because at times I could hear those when both were going full out. It is not silent at load by any means but it is in no way what I would call 'noisy', just the normal hum you'd expect to hear from a modern graphics card (that isn't a reference GTX 480!!!). So that's great temperatures and noise levels then plus being a single card power usage is a little lower obviously, so what about the performance?

It's awesome for a single card is the short version of it.

For the longer one, these are the results I took for a number of benchmarks. The results in brackets are for my old HD 5870 CFX setup by the way. Everything was tested at 1920x1200 with maximum settings (where possible) except for 3DMark Vantage (I used the defaults).

3DMark Vantage - Performance: P28,141 (P25,533) Note: PhysX was enabled!
3DMark Vantage - High : H19,629 (H21,017) Note: PhysX was enabled!
3DMark Vantage - Extreme : X13,317 (X16,555) Note: PhysX was enabled!
Lost Planet 2 - Test A (DX11, 8xAA, DX11 Features High) : 58.2 fps (45.3 fps)
Lost Planet 2 - Test B (DX11, 8xAA, DX11 Features High) : 50.2 fps (46.8 fps)
Resident Evil 5 - Variable (DX10, 8xAA) : S 116.9 fps (S 145.4 fps)
Resident Evil 5 - Fixed (DX10, 8xAA) : S 117.4 fps (S 109.8 fps)
Crysis Warhead - Ambush (DX10, 4xAA, Enthusiast, 64-bit) : Min. 29.50/Max. 48.17/Ave. 40.13 fps (Min: 33.9/Max. 70.33/Ave. 56.32 fps)
Crysis Warhead - Frost (DX10, 4xAA, Enthusiast, 64-bit) : Min. 29.73/Max. 48.47/Ave. 38.90 fps (Min: 20.42/Max. 33.56/Ave. 28.30 fps) Note: the HD 5870 CFX result was odd but repeatable and very likely due to a driver bug
Unigine Heaven v2.1 - Extreme Tessellation (4xAA) : Min. 22.1/Max. 77.6/Ave. 34.6 fps, Score 871 (Min. 13.8/Max. 82.3/Ave. 31.8 fps, Score 800)
Unigine Heaven v2.1 - Extreme Tessellation (8xAA) : Min. 18.83/Max. 67.1/Ave. 30.7 fps, Score 772 (Min. 8.7/Max. 67.7/Ave. 22.7 fps, Score 573) Note: 8xAA is completely usuable with Extreme Tessellation on the GTX 580, likely because of the extra 512 MB of video memory. On HD 5870 CFX it is literally a slide show much of the time.
F1 2010 (DX11, Ultra, 8xAA with Wet Race Fix) : Min. 38/Ave. 41 fps (Min. 31/33 fps) Note: DX11 is clearly broken with the GPU fix suggested by Codemasters...
F1 2010 (DX11, Ultra, 8xAA without Wet Race Fix) : Min. 59/Ave. 65 fps (Not tested but I got Min. 59/Ave 62 fps with DX9 CFX) Note: ... and here's the proof!!!
Colin McRae DiRT 2 (DX11, Ultra, 8xAA) : Min. 82.8/Ave. 98.2 fps (Min. 106/Ave. 120 fps)
Street Fighter IV (DX9, 8xAA) : Score 12,406, 190.20 fps (Score 13,402, 210.20 fps)
Devil May Cry 4 (DX10, 8xAA) : 221.83/158.45/242.53/176.64 fps (300.1/224.96/388.7/219.39 fps)
Just Cause 2 - Dark Tower (DX10, 8xAA) : 65.28 fps (89.89 fps)
Aliens vs. Predator DX11 Benchmark (4xAA) : 43.0 fps (56.9 fps)
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (DX10.1, 8xAA) : Ave. 114/Max. 299 fps (Ave. 135/Max. 365 fps)
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 (DX11, Tess On, 8xAA) : Ave. 139/Max. 200 fps (Ave. 109/Max. 152 fps)
Mafia II (DX9, AA On, PhysX Off) : 64.6 fps (88.1 fps)
Mafia II (DX9, AA On, PhysX Medium) : 40.1 fps (N/A)
Mafia II (DX9, AA On, PhysX High) : 36.6 fps (N/A)

A few surprises there were the single GTX 580 was faster than HD 5870 CFX but generally it was slightly slower but not by a significant amount in most cases. Still, I play games at 60 fps, v-synced and triple buffered so the small loss of performance is well worth it for the sake of having less hassle with CFX drivers! I encountered no problems running any games and the built-in profiles in the drivers meant it was a doddle to force AA and AF. A small tweak to the Darksiders profile using NVIDIA Inspector means I can now force AA like with the ATI cards too. Sweet.

Overall, I'm very, very happy with this card. I previously owned NVIDIA cards from 1998 right up until I swapped my GTX 280 for HD 5870 CFX back in March of this year so it's like slipping back into a comfortable pair of trainers. It's like I'd never been away. Only the shock of seeing a different installer reminds me that it has been over seven months since I used last NVIDIA graphics drivers. It *is* good to be back though.

P.S. I was using MSI Afterburner v2.1.0 Beta 4 and the GPU Monitor sidebar gadget to monitor card temps etc. in games and on the desktop.
 
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Great write-up Daz1967... :D.

Just to note, my OC that I stated earlier in the thread is still rock-solid :) for 24/7 gaming... I've been running 1.063v, auto fan speed (maxes around 60% during long sessions), 860 core/4400 ram.
 
My EVGA plain jane runs at 850 core stock voltage. Great card.
 
DooKey said:
My EVGA plain jane runs at 850 core stock voltage. Great card.
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What's your stock VID? I have heard of ones as low as 1.000v and as high as 1.075v... mine's stock @ 1.025, and I run my overclock @ 1.063.
 
GoldenTiger said:
What's your stock VID? I have heard of ones as low as 1.000v and as high as 1.075v... mine's stock @ 1.025, and I run my overclock @ 1.063.
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I'm running EVGA Precision Tool and unfortunately it doesn't tell you that. If I get around to installing MSI Afterburner I'll update you with the info.
 
Got the Black Ops because it was $10 cheaper than the Superclock version on Newegg - for a while.

Spent the last 2 hours getting my AMD motherboard to recognize my GTX 260 for PhysX.

Too tired to start overclocking may next week.
 
umeng2002 said:
Got the Black Ops because it was $10 cheaper than the Superclock version on Newegg - for a while.

Spent the last 2 hours getting my AMD motherboard to recognize my GTX 260 for PhysX.

Too tired to start overclocking may next week.
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Unless its an AMD SLI motherboard, you are SOL on using the 260 GTX for a physX card, unless there is some Driver hack for the motherboard.
 
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Got mine in this week, running 800 core / stock memory right.

I came from a HD5870 CFX setup. It's a lot faster. I can actually play my games at 6068x1200 Surround mode with effects turned on, no lag whatsoever, even BFBC2 with 2X AA / high effects. So far I am loving it.
 
All default, i decided to wait on upgrading my cpu/mobo/ram after seeing these benchmarks
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Everything on high
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My superclocked EVGA's have a 1.087VID. I have them running at 910/1820/2200 @ 1.125 though rock solid. These things overclock like mad.
 
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Someone just has to measure the diagonal of the mounting holes, Ive been gooeling like crazy without anny luck :D
 
hetsaq said:
That was a typo, I meant 1.125.

Afterburner 2.1.0 Beta 4 does allow for some adjusting up to 1.138 on these cards.
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Ah, yeah, you can go up to 1.213v with the readily-available shamino bios, though ;). Thought that 1.25 musta been water-cooled or better ;) hehe rather than a typo.
 
My EVGA 580 superclocked shipped yesterday from newegg....

Sadly its coming from their CA warehouse not the NJ one... An extra 2 days of waiting. GRR
 
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