MSI GTX580 Lightning Review

3D Mark

MSI GTX580 Lightning Review

As the GTX580 is clearly the fastest GPU by some margin we're really going to put it to the test by comparing it to Crossfire and twin-GPU cards.

3D Mark Vantage

Straight away the Lightning flexes its muscles by not only bludgeoning a reference overclocked card, but pushing the Crossfire setups hard too.

 

3D Mark 11

Understandably once we move away from the PhysX biased Vantage to 3D Mark 11 the Lightning drops away from the Crossfire cards, but still beats the 6870 CF setup. It's a country-mile ahead of its reference brother and that's the main thing.

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25-03-2011, 11:53:56

adamjamesroe
AHHHHH! so that was what it was. all the secracy when reviewing the H2 Quote

25-03-2011, 12:01:35

SnW
Quote:
Originally Posted by tinytomlogan View Post

Was it worth the wait?
IMO the MSI GPU's (FRZ) are always worth the wait

Thanks VB for the review Quote

25-03-2011, 12:13:26

steve30x
Did you need to bump the voltage to get that kind of OC? I am tempted to OC my Palit GTX580 because it has the palit's cooler with two cooling fans on it. I just dont know what voltages are needed to OC these cards. The default voltage on my card is 1.0vQuote

25-03-2011, 12:33:06

dugdiamond
Mmmm - tri-SLI too - me like Quote

25-03-2011, 12:36:08

Zeals
I just had an accident after looking at the results, brb.Quote
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