I bought this card because I hate having a video card that plays 1080p content flawlessly but chokes on OpenGL stuff like visualizations and screensavers. Also, since I have to boot Windows to watch Netflix, I wanted something that was hw-accelerated in Flash and could handle some DX10 gaming.
This thing is a monstrous beast that takes up 2 slots, requires 2 6-pin PCIe power connections, and blocks a drive bay in my mid-tower case. It has 2 fans on it but still runs pretty hot under a load -- it has already overheated and shut down my system once during an intense scene in Bioshock 2. I'll relocate it to a larger, better ventilated case when I find one that I like.
Following are the results of the Unigine Tropics Benchmark using the same resolution and rendering settings in 3 different environments. Note that the CPU frequency reads differently because of scaling.
Linux - OpenGL
XPSP3 - DX9
WIN7 - DX10
This thing is a monstrous beast that takes up 2 slots, requires 2 6-pin PCIe power connections, and blocks a drive bay in my mid-tower case. It has 2 fans on it but still runs pretty hot under a load -- it has already overheated and shut down my system once during an intense scene in Bioshock 2. I'll relocate it to a larger, better ventilated case when I find one that I like.
Following are the results of the Unigine Tropics Benchmark using the same resolution and rendering settings in 3 different environments. Note that the CPU frequency reads differently because of scaling.
Linux - OpenGL
XPSP3 - DX9
WIN7 - DX10