NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
by Ryan Smith on November 9, 2010 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield: Bad Company 2
The latest game in the Battlefield series - Bad Company 2 – remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.
Compared to the GTX 480, the GTX 580 has a rather straightforward 20% lead at both 2560 and 1920, once again surpassing our theoretical shader + clock numbers. Meanwhile in the SLI/CF camp this game has always favored AMD, so it’s not surprising to see the GTX 580 fall well behind the AMD multi-GPU solutions.
The waterfall minimum framerate test on the other hand usually erases any AMD lead and this is no exception. In spite of the GTX 580’s notably lower average framerate, here it pops ahead of its peers and falls just short of 30fps. Given the MP-centric design of the game, this could very well be the more important chart to look at.
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Pantsu - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
A good article, and a good conclusion overall. Much better that the fiasko that was the 6800-article.I do lament the benchmarking method AT uses though. Benchmarks like the Crysis Warhead one are not really representative of real world performance, but tend to be a bit too "optimized". They do not reflect real world performance very well, and even skew the results between cards.
carage - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
No DOLBY/DTS HD bitstream = epic fail as far as HTPC usage is concerned.Thank you nVidia for failing again this round.
Sihastru - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
Yes, you must be one of the only two persons in the world that was considering the most powerfull GPU on the planet for a HTPC setup.carage - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
And somehow you still buy into the argument that mid-end offerings at half the price has more features than the top of the line card?nVidia has been doing this since 6800 era...
QuagmireLXIX - Sunday, November 14, 2010 - link
And I am the other :) What some people don't see is that someone may only want 1 desktop to do everything well.buildingblock - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
I'm impressed that my local hardware dealer here in the UK has no less than 5 GTX 580s in stock today. It also includes, yes in stock, the first overclocked 580 the Palit Sonic which has a 835 Mhz CPU up from 772, 4200 memory up from 4008, and 1670 shaders up from 1544. All this for about 5% more than the price of the standard Palit GTX 580.buildingblock - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
I meant 5 different makes of GTX 580 of course.mapesdhs - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
Are you near Bolton by any chance? ;D
If not, which company?
Btw, shop around, the Sonic is 30 cheaper elsewhere.
Ian.
buildingblock - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
I was looking at a standard Palit GTX 580 for £380, and the Sonic version for £398. These were about the best prices I could find today.nitrousoxide - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link
But how far it can go depends on its counterpart, the HD6970.