Introducing Nvidia’s GTX 580 – Fermi Improved!

Vantage

Vantage is Futuremark’s latest test. It is really useful for tracking changes in a single system – especially driver changes. There are two mini-game tests, Jane Nash and Calico and also two CPU tests, but we are still focusing on the graphics performance. Here is a scene from Vantage’s second mini-game.

Let’s go right to the graphs and first check the basic tests with the default benchmark scores:

We note the rankings.  Unfortunately, they are completely meaningless when they are presented this way.

We see an interesting lineup. Unfortunately for our purposes, Vantage is a meaningless test with meaningless numbers in a weak attempt to compare one video card’s performance to another – even in the same system.  Let’s move on to PC games and to real world situations and we will create our “snapshot” of current performance of the top single-GPU video cards!