The test the performance of this card, we use the latest drivers direct from the manufacturer and run each test three times to obtain a fair average set of results.
Test System:
- Asus Rampage IV Extreme
- Intel Core i7 3960X
- 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz
- Corsair H100i
- Corsair HX1050W
- Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
- Lian Li T60
- Dell U3011
We would like to thank Asus, Corsair, Kingston, and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.
Games used:
- Aliens Vs Predator
- Dirt Showdown
- Hitman: Absolution
- Metro 2033
- Sleeping Dogs
Hardware used:
- Plug-in electricity usage monitor
- Sound level meter
Software used:
- 3DMark 11
- 3DMark 2013
- HWMonitor
- Unigine Heaven Benchmark 3.0
- Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
- Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Beautiful looking!
I haven’t seen a Gainward product for donkey years now, I almost forgot they existed.
Gainward are actually one of the biggest brands in the entire market as they are a joint brand with Palit – http://www.eteknix.com/asus-knocked-off-top-graphics-card-vendor-pedestal-by-palit-and-pc-partner/
So I believe. Their graphics cards were a very common sight here years ago, now we only see them sporadically at some e-tailers unlike the big names such as Gigabyte, EVGA, MSI & Asus which you can practically pick up at you local barber shop.
You have never seen a Gainward card? They have been around for ages and are always very good. Find this hard to believe!
I haven’t either there not sold in certain countries that’s why. I can fin most other brands easily except theirs..
Oh, God! Thank you eTeknix! I finally decide, what video card I need and want.
What do you mean by “Stock Memory Speeds” as a con? Is it lower than others?
Good review, thanks! I’ve never seen that brand here in the US.
My Phantom in the games goes to 2000rpm+ its normal?
Hey.. you clocked it, yes .. but, what is the temps saing, when you play the game ??
I discussed about the phantom on the msi twinfrozr page. I bought it a couple of weeks ago, and it is an awesome card. The phantom is really silent up until the 40% fan use. From then, it is as audible as my cpu fan when put at 2500rpm. Starting from 60-70%, you start to really hear it, but it’s still nothing compared to other cards or when you insert a CD.
As for overclocking, i managed with air cooling to push it to 1,190Mhz of clock, and 1,773 Mhz of memory
, which is close to what @RyanTheGerman:disqus expected of it, so either i’m a second silicon lottery lucky, or the card is really good. With 100% fan speed, on 3Dmark Vantage demostration (performance) bench, i never get above 64C°. (The score? between 37998 and 39374 for GPU). One weird thing, checking with afterburner, i notice that i never reach 100% GPU usage…? So i still have room for improvement, but i suck at OC so i’ll keep it at that 😛
Thanks again Ryan for your advices, and hope my post will help!