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ASUS GeForce GTX 590 3GB Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | ASUS |
| Product: | ASUS ENGTX590/3DIS/3GD5 |
| Date: | Thu, Mar 24, 2011 - 08:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
The 'Heaven' benchmark that uses the Unigine easily shows off the full potential of DirectX 11 graphics cards. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode emerging, experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extent and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming. The distinguishing feature of the benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand.
We ran the Heaven v2.1 benchmark that just recently out with VSync turned disabled, but with 8x AA and 16x AF enabled to check out system performance. We ran the benchmark at 1920x1200 and 1280x1024 to see how the benchmark ran at some different monitor resolutions. It should be noted that we ran the new extreme tessellation mode on this benchmark. These are the toughest settings that you can run on this benchmark, so it should really put the hurt on any graphics card.
Benchmark Results: We have a split decision in Heaven 2.1 as the AMD Radeon HD 6990 with the jumper in OC mode was able to take the win at 1920x1200, but the card fell short of the ASUS GeForce GTX 590 at 1280x1024. Seeing the Heaven 2.1 benchmark run at 60FPS at 1280x1024 with everything cranked up is impressive as when we first ran the benchmark it would kill any card on the market!
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Page 1 - The GeForce GTX590 Arrives For War at $699
Page 2 - The ASUS GTX590 3074MB Video Card Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator Page 6 - Just Cause 2 Page 7 - Metro 2033 Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 9 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage Page 11 - 3DMark 11 Page 12 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11 Page 13 - FurMark 1.8.2 Page 14 - Temperature Testing Page 15 - Power Consumption Page 16 - ASUS GeForce GTX590 Ti Overclocking Page 17 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions |
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