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Well it appears another GTX580 review has hit the net, ahead of the 2pm NDA launch date. This time MadboxPC have their analysis of the GTX580 online.
The english translation of the review can be seen over here. And the english translation of the conclusion page can be read here.
“With regard to performance, this card is between 10 to 20% faster than the GTX 480 and consumes less than this, what becomes clear the purchase option to a GTX480. But it will be a difficult decision before the HD 5870, because the performance difference between them is offset by the price difference there.”
More benchmarks can be seen here.
KitGuru says: Impressed?
who the fuck are madbox?
Looks alright, cant wait for today to end so this is over and done with 🙂 absolute borefest.
This is why I hate online reviews. the differences between this and the techpowerup leak are huge in some cases.
I used to like magazine reviews as most people had a clue what they were doing, not some 16 year old kid in a bedroom taking a back hander from nvidia so it hits google.
This review doesn’t show high resolution of course the differences between the cards will be smaller at a lower resolution. These cards don’t really shine until you’re well above standard 1080p/1920×1200 resolution.
[Ryan: 1080p=1920×1080 not 1920×1200. 1920×1080 is the most viable test option since approximately 90% of gamers use this resolution, so even if it does “shine” at higher resolutions it is almost irrelevant.]
I’m so sick of these pre-release online reviews. Magazine reviews are almost as bad since it’s really obvious that many have been receiving under the table money for better reviews. This is extremely prevalent with PC game reviews lately (specifically “PC Gamer”).
Although these results do seem reasonable I’ve already seen others that show the 580 as worse than the 480 and better than 2x480SLI. I’m giving this sometime before I even consider looking at benchmarks again.
The only thing that everyone seems to agree on is that the tessellation support is much higher than ATI’s. Nvidia’s marketing team even dumped $2m usd into EA’s new Crysis2 for better tessellation support to prove this. This is good news because the way that game was going with a cross-platform release promised to kill the PC version.