nVidia’s GTX 580 and AMD’s Radeon HD 6970 was benchmarked and compared using 3DMark 2011. This might sound a little bit disappointing to AMD Radeon Fan Boys but it seems GTX 580 is faster than Radeon HD 6970. Fudzilla has been benchmarking the two video cards together with their predecessors for comparison.
“We have compared the 3Dmark data we acquired from a source with our own that we got on a similar configuration. In 3Dmark 2011 Radeon HD 6970 scores slightly lower than 8000 at entry settings while the GTX 580 scores 8700 in that same test. The runner up, GTX 570, scores slightly above 8000 while the GTX 480 is slightly below 8000.
At performance settings Radeon HD 6970 a.k.a. Cayman XT scores around 5300 while the GTX 580 scores are just tad below 6000 and the GTX 570 loses by an inch with 5250 score. GTX 480 scores almost identical to the GTX 570, its 5250 points are again slightly lower than HD 6970.”
In more extreme conditions Radeon HD 6970 scores 1800 while the GTX 580 scores 1950. Radeon HD 6970 again wins against GTX 570 and GTX 480 who scored 1680.
In summary of Fudzilla’s benchmarks:
Stock Settings:
GTX 580 (8700) > Radeon HD 6970 (8000) > GTX 570 > GTX 480
Performance Settings:
GTX 580 (6000) > Radeon HD 6970 (5300) > GTX 570 >/= GTX 480
Extreme Settings:
GTX 580 (1950) > Radeon HD 6970 (1800) > GTX 570 > GTX 480
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