Asus HD 6970 Direct CUII
First a story.
I got the call from my brother, “I’ve got some money, what graphics card do you reckon for around £250~300”.
Of course, I gave him the benefit of my wisdom, for what it’s worth.
And he completely ignored it, buying this three bay 2GB behemoth instead.
Then he calls me and says, “Do you want to bench it then?”
Do pigs fly? Do sheep nest in trees? Of course I do!
But I’m cagey with him. “Well Joe. The only card you can have in the meantime is the 580 lightning.
I don’t want to give you that in case you start crying when you see it in action.”
To which he replied “HAHA”
So I arrived at his place to do the swap and he’s already ran 3dmark11 on it, managing to score 16k plus.
His is a Core2Duo E7400 DDR2 800MHz system at stock speeds.
In went the 580 and he ran 3DMark11 again, moaning that the 580 scored over 300 points more.
Honestly, this is what I’m dealing with here.
I assure him that on a cost basis, his purchase is fine, the 580 costs over £150 more.
Then I leave him to cry over Far Cry 2 as I exit with his card.
I’m going to do this on the Big Bang Marshall using my 2500K running at 4.52Ghz with 4Gb of DDR3 1600 CL9-9-9-24
Before I strip it and watercool it, I want to run all the benchmarks with stock clock settings, then maximum overclock on air settings, so here we go. First is the Windows 7 stock run.
3DMark01
74393 points
This score would rank 34th out of 45 on hwbot.
Considering the other cards in that rank are all overclocked, the system will have to take some of the credit here, although the score above and below me were both using a 980X. There’s not many results been up for this card. That’s never a good sign, it usually means there’s fewer points to go around.
I do have some GTX580 stock scores, not all of them, but they were done on my i5-760 system, so remember this when comparing them. When I get the 580 back I’ll do a proper run with it on the Sandy Bridge kit.
GTX580 i5 system = 61572
3DMark03
96018 points
42nd out of 51. Not much, but again amongst the overclockers. Surrounded by i7-950’s this time
GTX580 i5 system = 99433
3DMark05
38352 points
33rd out of 40. Looks like the only points this exercise is worth are experience points.
GTX580 i5 system = 36804
3DMark06
29484 points
40th out of 64. A few more submissions here, but still not enough.
GTX580 i5 system = 27639
3DMark Vantage
22675 points
67th out of 82. Not bad for stock I suppose.
GTX580 i5 system = 23825
3DMark11 Entry
8422 points
10th out of 12. No points are awarded for this benchmark, so fewer people tend to submit.
GTX580 i5 system = 8994
3DMark11 Performance
5579 points
29th out of 45. Amazingly, worth 2.9 global points. Wow. 303rd out of 602.
My only other score submitted for this test was the GTX460, which scored 4197.
That’s only worth 0.2 points anyway.
GTX580 i5 system = 5904. I guess this would take the points though.
3Dmark11 Extreme
1827 points
13th out of 15. Very few submissions.
GTX580 i5 system = 1974
Aquamark
219094 points
44th out of 46. We’ll have to see what XP can do with this one I think.
GTX580 i5 system = 205024
Hwbot Heaven Xtreme DX11
1236.115 points
39th out of 52.
GTX580 Sandy Bridge kit = 1311. I did run Heaven benchmark on the same kit.
Hwbot Heaven Basic DX9
2712.255 points
12th out of 12. DOH!
GTX580 Sandy Bridge kit = 3133
That’s it for now. I’m going to experiment with XP
First a story.
I got the call from my brother, “I’ve got some money, what graphics card do you reckon for around £250~300”.
Of course, I gave him the benefit of my wisdom, for what it’s worth.
And he completely ignored it, buying this three bay 2GB behemoth instead.
Then he calls me and says, “Do you want to bench it then?”
Do pigs fly? Do sheep nest in trees? Of course I do!
But I’m cagey with him. “Well Joe. The only card you can have in the meantime is the 580 lightning.
I don’t want to give you that in case you start crying when you see it in action.”
To which he replied “HAHA”
So I arrived at his place to do the swap and he’s already ran 3dmark11 on it, managing to score 16k plus.
His is a Core2Duo E7400 DDR2 800MHz system at stock speeds.
In went the 580 and he ran 3DMark11 again, moaning that the 580 scored over 300 points more.
Honestly, this is what I’m dealing with here.
I assure him that on a cost basis, his purchase is fine, the 580 costs over £150 more.
Then I leave him to cry over Far Cry 2 as I exit with his card.
I’m going to do this on the Big Bang Marshall using my 2500K running at 4.52Ghz with 4Gb of DDR3 1600 CL9-9-9-24
Before I strip it and watercool it, I want to run all the benchmarks with stock clock settings, then maximum overclock on air settings, so here we go. First is the Windows 7 stock run.
3DMark01
74393 points
This score would rank 34th out of 45 on hwbot.
Considering the other cards in that rank are all overclocked, the system will have to take some of the credit here, although the score above and below me were both using a 980X. There’s not many results been up for this card. That’s never a good sign, it usually means there’s fewer points to go around.
I do have some GTX580 stock scores, not all of them, but they were done on my i5-760 system, so remember this when comparing them. When I get the 580 back I’ll do a proper run with it on the Sandy Bridge kit.
GTX580 i5 system = 61572
3DMark03
96018 points
42nd out of 51. Not much, but again amongst the overclockers. Surrounded by i7-950’s this time
GTX580 i5 system = 99433
3DMark05
38352 points
33rd out of 40. Looks like the only points this exercise is worth are experience points.
GTX580 i5 system = 36804
3DMark06
29484 points
40th out of 64. A few more submissions here, but still not enough.
GTX580 i5 system = 27639
3DMark Vantage
22675 points
67th out of 82. Not bad for stock I suppose.
GTX580 i5 system = 23825
3DMark11 Entry
8422 points
10th out of 12. No points are awarded for this benchmark, so fewer people tend to submit.
GTX580 i5 system = 8994
3DMark11 Performance
5579 points
29th out of 45. Amazingly, worth 2.9 global points. Wow. 303rd out of 602.
My only other score submitted for this test was the GTX460, which scored 4197.
That’s only worth 0.2 points anyway.
GTX580 i5 system = 5904. I guess this would take the points though.
3Dmark11 Extreme
1827 points
13th out of 15. Very few submissions.
GTX580 i5 system = 1974
Aquamark
219094 points
44th out of 46. We’ll have to see what XP can do with this one I think.
GTX580 i5 system = 205024
Hwbot Heaven Xtreme DX11
1236.115 points
39th out of 52.
GTX580 Sandy Bridge kit = 1311. I did run Heaven benchmark on the same kit.
Hwbot Heaven Basic DX9
2712.255 points
12th out of 12. DOH!
GTX580 Sandy Bridge kit = 3133
That’s it for now. I’m going to experiment with XP
