ASUS MARS II and MATRIX GTX 580

[onethreehill]

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/index.php?o...m_pctlongblock

[onethreehill]

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/component/c...gtx-580-matrix

[illidan]

Matrix is so ugly

[naokaji]

20% cooler performance than reference? whats next? CAPS LOCK Edition?

[Wumpus]

Now I dont care if it looks bad as long as its a beast while frozen

[bamtan2]

face palm. 1.5gb memory.

[3NZ0]

1.5GB per gpu

Yeah? no.

We've already been over this one. 1.5gb is not enough for a pair of 580's if you really want to push it. Modern games eat though video memory. At least amd got it right.

I'm surprised the single gpu model is also the same.

[ell]

face palm. 1.5gb memory.

I have to admit this is getting strange.. I remember having 2gig on my 285GTXs a long time ago.. It's a genuine concern for me and others running 2560x1600 resolutions. Thankfully I don't play any games requiring more than 1.5gig at the moment but who knows what the future holds. Would of thought atleast 2gig per single gpu would of been the standard for high end nvidia cards by now tbh!

[jaquar.2007]

very good and very expensive card

[Nintendork]

Yeah? no.

We've already been over this one. 1.5gb is not enough for a pair of 580's if you really want to push it. Modern games eat though video memory. At least amd got it right.

I'm surprised the single gpu model is also the same.

That's a consequence of using 384bit and not 256bit. You either put just 1.5GB per gpu(2GB total) but not enough for serious high end gaming or blow the price with a 3GB per gpu(6GB total) model.

AMD 256bit got the sweet spot 2GB/4GB total. Not too much to make it uber expensive but not too few to make it look weak for 2560x1600/Multimonitor fans (primary buyers of dual gpu's and "special editions").


It's nvidia's homework to improve his memory controller and allow high-speed GDDR5(+die size bonus of using 256bit).

[crash5s]

face palm. 1.5gb memory.

I think most people buying this are going for OC, in which case the extra memory doesn't help and in some cases may hurt. I don't think it's a big deal.

I'll take one of the matrix cards though.

[CedricFP]

Wow I can't wait to see clocks on the MARS.

[rintamarotta]

Even tough only 1.5Gb of memory, this still beats hell out of reference GTX590, its pwm isnt junk like GTX590's pwm.
Great for overclocking, not so great for triple-screen gaming due low memory amount.

Tripe-Screen 5760x1080 or Single Screen 2560x1600 Gaming, my 3 GW GTX580 3Gb graphics cards are alot of better due i have 1.5Gb per card more memory.

[noobzed]

where to DL the gpu tweak soft ?

[crash5s]

Even tough only 1.5Gb of memory, this still beats hell out of reference GTX590, its pwm isnt junk like GTX590's pwm.
Great for overclocking, not so great for triple-screen gaming due low memory amount.

Tripe-Screen 5760x1080 or Single Screen 2560x1600 Gaming, my 3 GW GTX580 3Gb graphics cards are alot of better due i have 1.5Gb per card more memory.

Congrats, you don't count, you are so far in the minority. And this is made for OC, nothing else.

When most people can use that amount of VRAM, they should add it, till then, halo OC product is halo OC product.

[G.Foyle]

GPU Tweak
Could it be that SmartDoctor will finally be put to rest?

[onethreehill]

ASUS MATRIX GTX 580
http://www.xfastest.com/cms/tid-61294/

[Chrono Detector]

ASUS really should have slapped in 3GB of VRAM, like others said. I don't understand, they like to make their own high end overclocked cards targeted for high end users, why not increase the VRAM? 1.5GB just isn't cutting it anymore, even at 1920x1080 with highest settings games use up over 1.2GB.

[hoop]

thats's huge.

[sniper_sung]

Not interested as long as it's only 1.5GB per GPU.

[3NZ0]

Congrats, you don't count, you are so far in the minority. And this is made for OC, nothing else.

When most people can use that amount of VRAM, they should add it, till then, halo OC product is halo OC product.

Rather silly to talk about minority considering the product in question. 580's are a minority. Special editions?

If you're going to do the job, you may as well do it properly or not bother at all. From the general thread response, most think that 3gb of vram should be on this card. No excuse, especially at the price it will no doubt have.

[Lanek]

ASUS really should have slapped in 3GB of VRAM, like others said. I don't understand, they like to make their own high end overclocked cards targeted for high end users, why not increase the VRAM? 1.5GB just isn't cutting it anymore, even at 1920x1080 with highest settings games use up over 1.2GB.

When i aggree with you, i believe it just cause the GDDR5 ask for a lot of power, i believe they have try restrain it a bit ... 6gb of GDDR5 will increase a lot the amount of power needed... on a single core cards it's ok, but on the dual 580 ... the more they can cut, the best it is ..

[STEvil]

When i aggree with you, i believe it just cause the GDDR5 ask for a lot of power, i believe they have try restrain it a bit ... 6gb of GDDR5 will increase a lot the amount of power needed... on a single core cards it's ok, but on the dual 580 ... the more they can cut, the best it is ..

Only needs more power if there's more chips. Same number of chips means same amount of power.

[onethreehill]

ASUS MATRIX GTX 580
http://pctuning.tyden.cz/component/c...um-v-detailech

[D749]

Not interested as long as it's only 1.5GB per GPU.

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