Zotac GTX 560 Multiview Video Card

Synthetic Benchmarks

•  Motherboard: Asus F1A75m-Pro
• APU: A8-3850
• GPU: Zotac GTX 560 Multiview
• RAM: 4GB DDR3-2133 Kingston HyperX
• CPU Cooler: Coolermaster 140mm
• PSU: Thermaltake 700w
• Case: Coolermaster HAF 922
• Storage: 64GB Kingston SSD-Now, 500GB WD Caviar
• OS: Windows 7 Professional

Furmark

Furmark is a benchmark designed to test the thermal capacity of a video card. As we can see, Furmark showed a large flaw with this card: it can’t deal with heat.  ~70C is usually considered hot: this card maxed out at 100C!  This is EXTREMELY hot for any GPU.  Heat of this caliber can easily harm other parts of the rig.

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*Side note: Testing case has 3x 200mm and 1x 140mm case fans which were turned up to 100% during testing.  Some research after showed the GTX 560s’ max temperature (per nVidia) should max out at 100C.  So is the Zotac Cooler actually doing anything?

3DMark Vantage (DirectX 10)

In testing the GTX 560 Multiview with 3DMark, we see that this card still is a high-end GPU (hot or not).  Only during extreme settings did the FPS drop below 30.  However during each of these tests the card maxed at 88C.  Still on the very high end of where this card should be at in terms of heat on a single monitor.

Unigine Heaven 2.5 (DirectX 11)

 Unigine Heaven 2.5 was the first DirectX 11 benchmark to hit the market back in 2009 and it’s still bringing GPUs to their knees today.  During this test the card maxed out at 82C and performed well with an average fps of 35.

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