Radeon HD 6990 vs GeForce GTX 580 on Intel Ivy Bridge!

By Nathan Kirsch

Coolaler has taken the time to test an AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card versus an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 graphics card on the same exact PC. What makes his testing interesting is that it was done on an Intel Ivy Bridge processor running at 1.8Ghz! He only posted results from 3DMark Vantage and with PhysX enabled the GeForce GTX 580 was able to have a higher overall score and CPU score. With NVIDIA PhysX the CPU score was still higher on the GeForce GTX 580 system, but not by too much. You’d think that the Intel Ivy Bridge processor running at 1.8GHz would be the bottleneck of the test, but early benchmarks are always fun to look at. Here are the benchmark results and if you’d like to see higher resolution images please head on into the forums by following the link at the bottom of this post.
Intel Ivy Bridge @ 1.8Ghz, AMD Radeon HD 6990 @ 950/1400MHz:

Intel Ivy Bridge Radeon 6990

Intel Ivy Bridge @ 1.8Ghz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 @ 920/1200/1860MHz:
Intel Ivy Bridge GeForce GTX 580

Ivy Bridge is the codename for the yet-to-be released 22 nm die shrink of Sandy Bridge. Ivy Bridge processors will be backward compatible with the Sandy Bridge platform. Expected Ivy Bridge feature improvements from Sandy Bridge:

  • Intel’s tri-gate transistor technology
  • PCI Express 3.0 support
  • Graphics DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1 support

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