Topinio wrote:deruberhanyok wrote:@topinio
do post back with your impressions on the EVGA card!
Will do. Ordered it Saturday and it arrived Monday, but first installation opportunity is Saturday...
So, I finally got this done on Monday night and today have time to post...
deruberhanyok wrote:I missed the sale at the local shop (sold out fast!) so I'll probably hold off on picking one up for a little while yet, but I'm curious how well it works. Some user reviews at Newegg seem to indicate it has excellent overclocking potential, I imagine due to the cooling on it, so that could be interesting for gaming. Also curious about the actual heatsink height, if it's "1.5 slots" but only, say, 25mm, it might fit in a lot of single slot setups.
So, it's mostly faster than the HD 7750 it replaced, and quieter under load (not that the Radeon was noisy). I'd expected the latter from a new 30 W card, though I did not expect the performance to be so close to the 5.5 y.o. 55 W one -- I expected more from the NVIDIA one, it cost 70p more
Height is 27 mm from the back of the PCB, versus 16 mm for the Radeon (the screws &c. stick 2 mm out the back, versus 3 mm).
Edit to add: changing the bracket was a pain. EVGA in its wisdom has placed a retaining screw under the plastic shroud for the heatsink, such that the screwdriver needs to be angled in at 30° or so, and so has to be quite carefully turned. This is silly, could easily be avoided (not least by putting the screw head on the
outside i.e. the back of the PCB, and I hope I never see its like again.
I haven't tried overclocking, but if I do I'll post back here.
Benchmarks below, all @1920x1080@60 over HDMI; Radeon HD 7750 (800 MHz, 1 GB GDDR5 4500 MHz) -> GeForce GT 1030 (1290 MHz, 2 GB GDDR5 6008 MHz):
Star Swarm D3D (Mantle didn't run) Low : 65.38 -> 81.85; +16.5 FPS = +25%
SteamVR Performance Test, Average Quality : 7.4 (High) -> 0 (Low)
SteamVR Performance Test, Frames Below 90 fps : 1838 (32.9%) -> 5944 (100%) = -100%
F1 2010 High 8xMSAA, Average FPS : 77 -> 76; -1 FPS = -1%
F1 2010 High 8xMSAA, Minimum FPS : 69 -> 67; -2 FPS = -3%
F1 2010 Ultra no AA, Average FPS : 45 -> 56; +11 FPS = +24%
F1 2010 Ultra no AA, Minimum FPS : 41 -> 53; +12 FPS = +29%
F1 2010 Ultra 8xMSAA, Average FPS : 39 -> 39; +-0 FPS = +/-0%
F1 2010 Ultra 8xMSAA, Minimum FPS : 27 -> 36; +9 FPS = +33%
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, max'd +ink : 68.181 -> 196.549; +128.4 FPS = +188%
Metro 2033, DX11, Low, MSAA 4X, AF 16X, Average Framerate : 43.35 -> 44.62; +1.3 FPS = +3%
Metro 2033, DX11, Medium, MSAA 4X, AF 16X, Average Framerate : 39.88 -> 42.98; +3.1 FPS = +8%