ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

Long time since I reviewed a high-end card, got this card some time back but not found the opportunity to publish it. 🙁 Many apologies to my dear readers, and also ASUS Malaysia

The Card

Here’s some photos of the beauty.

It’s THICK, really thick.
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

Signature LED Load Indicator
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

Button to immediately run the fan at 100% …….. quite pointless though, unless your casing is always open. Great for OCers for their next record breaking endeavor but once the casing it’s closed, you probably won’t touch it.
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

2x 8pin PCI-E power connector sockets.
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

Heatpiped heatsinks.
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

Good array of output, and there’s also a SAFE MODE button there.
ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

More details at the Official Product page.

Here’s a video of the card, highlighting the 100% fan speed mode and the LED Load Indicator.

Test Setup

The computer setup used for this review.

Processor Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.2 Ghz
RAM Kingston Value RAM 4GB 1333
Motherboard MSI P67A-GD65
Cooler Intel stock cooler
Monitor 20″ Dell Ultra-sharp Wide-screen LCD
Power Supply Vantec Ion2 520w
Operating System Windows 7 32bit
Driver Version nVidia GeForce 275.33

Below is the GPU-Z for both default and overclocked speed.

ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX580 Platinum Graphic Card Review

The Performance

Crysis

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ 1680×1050

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 45.73
ASUS GTX 580 OC 51.54
ASUS HD 6950 39.72
Leadtek GTX 460 24.22

Mafia II

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 41.1
ASUS GTX 580 OC 47.8
ASUS HD 6950 18
Leadtek GTX 460 34

Lost Planet 2

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 55.6
ASUS GTX 580 OC 61.5

Alien Vs Predator

Graphic Detail : Default setting @ Full HD

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 73
ASUS GTX 580 OC 82.4

*The Radeon HD 6950 cards fail badly with Physx enabled. When Physx disabled, it goes to 58.4 fps.

Furmark

Graphic Detail : Maximum @ Full HD

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 103
ASUS GTX 580 OC 118
ASUS HD 6950 54
Leadtek GTX 460 64

Unigine Heaven 2.0

Graphic Detail : Full HD, 4xAA, 16xAF, Tesselation at NORMAL.

Card Average
ASUS GTX 580 54.6
ASUS GTX 580 OC 61.3
ASUS HD 6950 46.3
Leadtek GTX 460 31.8

Operating Temperature

Furmark was used for graphic card stressing.

Card Idle (°C) Load (°C) Stress (°C)
ASUS GTX 580 43 69 79
ASUS GTX 580 OC 41 77 100c (and crashed)

Readings were taken when ambient temperature was around 25°C.

– Load, Furmark was run for 1 minute at Full HD with 4xAA.
– Stress, Furmark was run under the Stress Test mode for 5 minutes.

Conclusion

It’s a good card from a good brand. It performs very well……….. and it’s going to cut a hole in your wallet so huge, it’s no longer a wallet (costs almost RM 2,000).

goldfries recommended

Recommended? Yes but only to those who want feature and performance and have little to no consideration about the cost factor. 🙂 As you can see I was using a 460w PSU on it, well it works but I don’t recommend anyone to do so. I only did that because my 650w PSU went bongkers.

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