With the help of the GPU-Z 0.5.1 utility, we could extract lots of information regarding the video card clocks,memory type, pixel and texture fill rate and so on:

To extract even more information, we have used the AIDA64 utility:

Here are the CUDA capabilities of the Calibre X580:

Temperature tests:

To find out the IDLE and maximum temperatures, I have used the MSI Kombustor utility, and let it run for about 15 minutes. To record the temperatures, the GPU-Z utility was used, thanks to its Sensors monitoring tab. The recorded room temperature at the time of testing was 17.5 degrees Celsius:

IDLE

Full Load

Noise measurements

Before finding out the noise the video card was producing, I have first measured the noise inside the room the tests took place and I found out it was 30dBA (with everything turned off).

The next step was to measure the noise the test system was producing, without the video card installed; the value I have obtained was 34.1dBA. Most of the fans inside the case were turned off, but the CPU (43%) and chipset one (30%).

At all times, the sound meter was placed 8cm under the video card.

The GPU fan was controlled by the latest version of the MSI Afterburner software:

As it can be seen from the chart, the noise grows linear with the increase of the fan speed. Increasing the fan over 85% or setting a speed less than 40% was not possible using MSI Afterburner (it is a BIOS limitation that can be modified by flashing a new modded one, or using the EVGA GTX580 Fan Speed Unlocker):

The 3DMark Vantage scores were calculated by summing up the GPU and CPU subscores.

Here are the Vantage subscores separately: