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
So, AMD / NOM NOM NOM /Nvidia profits......
ATI has the lead now. The need for them to be competitive with NV on prices isn't very high until NV can show them up. NV on the otherhand needs to pricecut. Don't think they'll be retaking the performance title with a rushed board like the 580. Thing is liable to run extremely hot and power hungry.
Next....:rolleyes:
And to the haters out there. I'm glad nvidia is trying to release something to counter AMD, why? Competition is good. Who cares if their card produces more heat than the sun, if it's out there AMD will need to take note of it and price more aggressively so that's a win in my book :)
all they're doing is trying to sway people away from buying a 69XX when it comes out with the same bullshit they did with the GTX480 when the 5870 dropped.
rumors can't be trusted we all know that lol
I however hope Nvidia really put a kick ass gpu together to compete with the new gen Amd gpu. But what ever, the thing I love is knowing that both companies are pulling things together and I cant wait to see what the cards will be like and what there going to be like in 3-5 more years. :respect:
You need competition to get innovation, but being counterproductive by posting nonsensical uninformed statements such as ''nvidia is full of crap.start making good graphic cards or STFU'' run rampant, it brings down slowly the high standards i have for a lot of visitors here at TPU and the site in generally.
But maybe that's just me...
On topic: Based on Benetanegia's most useful speculation, this card does indeed seem feasible and has a lot of wow factor.
I agree with other posters in questioning the need for such a card right now. Within the current line up of GPU's from both AMD and Nvidia, one does not need to purchase the highest performing unit in order to be able to max out the settings in most games. Increasing the performance even more will just shift the gaming customers into a lower relative market position.
Both Nvidia and AMD had better pray for a new generation 'crysis', otherwise they will be selling gamers $100-$150 low end cards instead of $250 mid range cards. Are they hoping 3D will do this for them? maybe but what else? I cant see the commercial payback for these guys if they get too far in front of the market. Otherwise, sometime between now and years end, a new game will come out that can stop all our current rigs dead in their tracks and have us ordering a new $400 card for kicks.
Really, while people like us are the common end user of nv's products, Fermi was a very poor showing of business, and any issues must be fixed, controlled, and turned around in a very efficient manner, or investors, who truly motivate nV as a company, will be pulling out even more than they have the past 18 months.
"Shit happens" isn't gonna fly this time. Huang said basically the same tihng, so that excuse has dried up at the well, and they filled in the hole, too.
OMG the commas kill me.
:laugh: