HAWX

Ubisoft’s 2008 aerial action game is one of the less demanding games in our benchmark suite, particularly for the latest generation of cards. However it’s fairly unique in that it’s one of the few flying games of any kind that comes with a proper benchmark.

Throughout all of our testing it’s HAWX that ends up being the best game for the GTX 580 compared to its predecessor. At 2560 the difference is a staggering 27%, and even at 1920 it’s still 25%. HAWX as far as we know is not huge on FP16 texture filtering, so it may be the biggest benefactor of the Z-culling improvements for GF110.

It actually does well enough here that this is one of the few times even the 5970 can’t keep up; the difference is under 10%, but we wouldn’t normally expect the 580 to surpass AMD’s double-GPU monster.

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  • TonyB - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    But can it play Crysis?
  • Etern205 - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    It already has a benchmark on Crysis...

    And it's no surprise as being the fastest Direct X 11 card in the single GPU category.
  • mfenn - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    whoooosh
  • deputc26 - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    "Red 580 Load" instead of "Ref 580 Load" at the top of the power temp & noise page.
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    Let it go.
  • taltamir - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - link

    only in reduced quality, the specifically said it, and any other card on the market, can't play a maxed out crysis.
  • B3an - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - link

    It can play Crysis maxed out. If this thing can get 38FPS (playable) on "gamer quality" at 2560 res with 4xAA then it can certainly run crysis maxed out at the way lower 1080p res.

    The 480 that i owned could do this. And one of my 5870's can also do it...but with no AA.
  • limonovich - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    more like gtx 485
  • Sihastru - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    And what would you call the 6870/6850?
  • Goty - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - link

    The 6870 and 6850 since there were real architectural changes and there are still faster cards to come.

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