ASUS GTX 580 Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest begins. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings

• Default test settings
• Resolutions 1280x1024 - 2560x1600
• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: CPU1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

Higher = Better

The results in 3DMark06 show a less than ideal scenario where the large overclock is not showing as an increase in performance. At this point, I can speculate that there is a CPU limitation in this test.