Friday, October 15th 2010
NVIDIA to Counter Radeon HD 6970 ''Cayman'' with GeForce GTX 580
AMD is undertaking its product development cycle at a breakneck pace, NVIDIA trailed it in the DirectX 11 and performance leadership race by months. This November, AMD will release the "Cayman" GPU, its newest high end GPU, the expectations are that it will outperform the NVIDIA GF100, that is a serious cause for concern, for the green team. It's back to its old tactics of talking about GPUs that haven't even taken shape, to try and water down AMD's launch. Enter, the GF110, NVIDIA's new high-end GPU under design, on which is based the GeForce GTX 580.
The new GPU is speculated to have 512 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory, with a TDP of close to that of the GeForce GTX 480. In the immediate future, there are prospects of a more realistic-sounding GF100b, which is basically GF100 with all its 512 CUDA cores enabled, while retaining its 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 64 TMUs, and slightly higher TDP than that of the GTX 480.
Sources:
3DCenter.org, PCGH
The new GPU is speculated to have 512 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory, with a TDP of close to that of the GeForce GTX 480. In the immediate future, there are prospects of a more realistic-sounding GF100b, which is basically GF100 with all its 512 CUDA cores enabled, while retaining its 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 64 TMUs, and slightly higher TDP than that of the GTX 480.
195 Comments on NVIDIA to Counter Radeon HD 6970 ''Cayman'' with GeForce GTX 580
ATI looks more enticing everyday. Good for them with kicking nVidia up the arse, and increasing competition. Maybe one day I might build a rig with ATI in it.....
Everyone is now speculating about what NV's next big card is going to be...... Even though they don't even have it yet.
There is only one reason for this 'outlet' of info - to make those about to shell out for 69xx cards stop and go, "oh, maybe i should wait for this.."
Shame on all of you for falling head over heels in love with an idea that is really an attempt at FUD to stall people buying AMD.
Even Benetanegia with his well informed tech speak is just 'speculating'. And that's not an insult Ben :) I'm just saying that one simple release has sparked all this rumour. It's NV marketing doing what it does best - spreading doubt without foundation.
We really all need to realise both companies are out for our cash. And they'll both fight nasty to get it.
Please, let's stop falling for all this marketing shit.
EDIT: I say this ^^ because it's best for your sanity, you can start whinning about these hyped people, next you would take on people who vote on elections hoping for change, next religion and you'd end up yelling at children in the streets "Santa does not exist you prick! It's your parents". :laugh:
calling for common sense is a bit useless when fanboism kicks in... :laugh:
however, I personally do not see a need for an upgrade... just yet...
I usually upgrade when a game comes that I can not play with my current setup.
for example I upgraded from 8800 GTS to GTX280 because of crysis... :D
so far I do not see any game coming that will tax my GTX280 (not even overclocked) so bad that I will wish to cash out for something new... and when that moment comes, I will not be looking if it is NV or AMD but will look which one plays "Da game" for least cash... :cool:
For this "GTX 580" to be possible, Nvidia has to make major changes to the GF100 architecture. And I don't see Nvidia having resources to do that, since they just got done releasing their entry-level desktop cards, are still missing a dual-GPU card and have only released their first notebook-graphics.
I dont whine, too long in the tooth for that.
And i often 'argue' with religious types. It's fun. And when people say "what's Santa getting you for christmas?" I often reply, hopefully not sexually abused again.
I have no sanity :wtf:
Regarding selective benchmarks, 50% faster in an AMD endorsed DX11 game to show of the 5*** series, 45 % faster in DX11 metro2033 :roll: Nvidia-DX11 done right. :rockout:
so many comments about how it's not possible, not going to happen, don't even try, it will suck if they do.
since when was competition a bad thing? and I don't see anything that Nvidia themselves have said there, it's not an official announcement from them about a new series or anything sheesh.
calm down people, why don't you save ripping on the card for when it arrives.
As stated above, how about we wait for the card to at least see it's system specs confirmed and we have some official announcements from Nvidia themselves, but, something tells me this type of irrational thinking will just happen again in those threads too..:(