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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GF110 Fermi Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | NVIDIA |
| Product: | GeForce GTX 580 Video Card |
| Date: | Tue, Nov 09, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress any and all DX11 enabled video cards.
Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat showed that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 was 16% faster than the GeForce GTX 480 and it was just behind the performance level of two Radeon HD 6870 video cards running in CrossFire.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - A Fixed Fermi Core Called GF110 Goes Into GTX580!
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX 580 Page 3 - Taking The GeForce GTX 580 Apart Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Page 7 - Just Cause 2 Page 8 - Metro 2033 Page 9 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 11 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage Page 13 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 14 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 15 - GeForce GTX580 F@H Performance Page 16 - Temperature Testing Page 17 - Power Consumption Page 18 - GeForce GTX580 Overclocking Page 19 - Dual LCD Display Testing Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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