Power Consumption and Temperatures
Testing of power consumption is pretty important when looking at higher end graphics cards like these – let’s see how our real-world power consumption turned out.
Idle power results on the new ASUS Matrix GTX 580 are really impressive, coming in under not only the reference GTX 580 card but also the Radeon HD 6970. Obviously the work that ASUS put into the board design has paid off. Even under a full gaming load, the ASUS card used less power than the reference – by 28 watts – and uses less than our GTX 570 reference card did under load.
Nothing shows off the work of the ASUS engineers quite like this result – at 66 degrees C the ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 580 is by far the quietest and coolest non-liquid cooled Fermi we have tested! At that temperature the Matrix GTX 580 is 13 degrees cooler than the reference GTX 580 (20%) and this will obviously allow the card to overclock higher (and run with less noise) than most other options on the market.
I love how this card is not
I love how this card is not compared to a superior product, the N580GTX Lightning whihch you had on review 3 weeks ago 🙂
The lightning card was
The lightning card was reviewed by another editor that lives faarrrr away from me. 🙂
I read in another review that
I read in another review that its potential overclock is higher then MSI’s extreme lightning.
No, actual statistics from
No, actual statistics from HWBOT.org show that the Average overclocks of Lightning cards is higher under both air and LN2 cooling.
If you take the average OC of the cards it’s true and also the current rankings show it: http://hwbot.org/benchmark/3dmark11_-_performance/#cores=1
75% of the 3DMark11 580 scores are from MSI. (including the fastest card and the highest score)
So no, I don’t know where you read it but it’s false :p
hardocp.com
“We managed to
hardocp.com
“We managed to get the GPU frequency up to 891MHz, which is 75MHz faster than the out-of-box frequency, and 119MHz faster than a reference GTX 580. Also, because the shaders are locked to the GPU frequency, the shaders were running at 1782MHz, versus a stock GTX 580 of 1544MHz. Looking back at a couple of other evaluations, a MSI N580GTX Lightning video card achieved 893MHz GPU frequency, and an ASUS ENGTX580 DirectCU II video card achieved only 857MHz GPU frequency with no modification. So, this overclock is already better than ASUS’s own GTX 580 DirectCU II version, and on par with another high-end custom video card. ”
ASUS $530
MSI $600
Nice cherry picking Mark!
the
Nice cherry picking Mark!
the $600 you mention is of the 3GB Lightning Xtreme Edition, the regular Lightning is $525 (oh! cheaper than the Asus!) 🙂
If you take a wider sample variance instead of just [H] you’ll notice he averages are higher for the Lightning.
I was at a local event where they had 20 Lightnings and the average OC of those cards was over 1 GHz!
I really wanted to enjoy this
I really wanted to enjoy this card. NewEgg sent me one that was used. I immediately RMA’d it for another and they sent me yet another used one! I eventually received a refund and bought the MSI Lightning GTX580 Xtreme. It’s a monster overclocker, but I still want the ASUS Matrix. Since the ones I received were pre-used I never installed either one. I guess it isn’t too early to be thinking about a Christmas present for myself. Especially since Ivy Bridge has been put off for at least another 3 months. Or never?
This is an awesome card, I
This is an awesome card, I picked up one of these, a ROG Crosshair V formula motherboard, and some Gskill 2133 ram, and the setup FAR exceeded my expectations.. (still using AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition cpu until Zambezi releases)
averaging 50+ fps in Crysis2 DX11 with everything maxed at 1680 x 1050 + hi-res textures
Unigine Heaven demo in Open Suse Linux sees an avg of 66.4 frames with an overall score of 1673 with moderate tesselation setting
MATRIX GTX580 P/2DIS/1536MD5
MATRIX GTX580 P/2DIS/1536MD5 Software – Driver Download
http://www.software-driver.com/asus/assus-matrix-gtx580-drivers-win7vistaxp/
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