Thursday, October 28th 2010
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Reference Design Graphics Card Pictured
Here are the first pictures of what is touted to be the GeForce GTX 580 reference design graphics card by NVIDIA, by sections of the Chinese media. There are some interesting inferences that can be drawn just by the looks of the card. To begin with the cooler bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the earliest design iterations of the GeForce GTX 480 (pictured here and here). In its final iteration, NVIDIA gave the GTX 480 a more massive cooler, perhaps to keep up with its finalized clock speeds. If the design of the GTX 580 cooler is anything to go by, it means that either NVIDIA refined the GF100 architecture in the GF110 (on which GTX 580 is based) a great deal, increasing performance per Watt; or that since GTX 580 is in its development stage, its final version could look different. GeForce GTX 580 is being designed as a counter to AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series single-GPU graphics cards that are based on the new Cayman graphics core, which is slated for release in late November. It is expected to be 20% faster than the GTX 480.
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213 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Reference Design Graphics Card Pictured
My post negated his declaration by stating ATI fans pay MORE for the MORE power hungry cards. Thats not an ATI win.
and on topic so i dont get my ass kicked, if someoe has some solid specs of a GTX 580, that would be lovely because it'll stop all this poop from going round in circles.
Dont hit me Sneeky. I can't not respond to a guy quoting me.
i love 460 for its power, performance, and temps. but the future 580 kinda look have the same ending with 480, take performance crown but forget to solve other problems.so now they have more focussed on bigger projects to make their name bigger than just selling a standard consumer card?
from what you say, it seems that they starting to losing focus on standart market, especially low-segment. i hope they still have to get both sides. and optimized the whole. not just for sake of names..
I currently own both a single heavily overclocked GTX460 and two 460's in SLI, yet I am sorely tempted by a 6970 or 6990 as a replacement. My previous GPU's have been a mix of ATI and Nvidia in equal measure.
Heck I am lining up a HD5750 for my wife's pc (to replace a GTX460 she gets lent on occassion) as there isn't anything from Nvidia that can match a HD5750 for performance per £.
Why should I be prevented from discussing ATI products just because I have a nvidia card in my specs?
I dont like nVidia.
I dont like HD 6xxx.
I dont like AMD and ATI.
I want matrox G-series back,
I want S3 Savage back.
I want 3DLabs Permedia back.
I want Trident Blade Back.
But what i really need, a Voodoo card.
Honestly, I don't worry bout my 4890 going the distance as I watercooled it.
This is pure fud, but it looks like they took GF100, and burned its fat. Maybe they replaced the 32-core SM design with a more space-optimized 48-core one, reduced some redundant components that weren't having much of a positive impact on performance for the power draw, and made up for it with higher clock speeds. GF110 could be GF104's architecture, up-scaled. It's Fermi done right.GF100 is larger than GF104. It always makes more business sense for them to clear GF100 inventory (GTX 470 and GTX 465 (which is already cannibalized)), and replace it with this high-clock 384-SP GF104. For this reason many sources pointed out that full-GF104 could end up getting the SKU name "GTX 475". So maybe there's some GF100 inventory to gulp down.
all we know is the memory bus thats it.
for all we know it could be a rebrand(for example) we don't know
don't the newer cores(104) have 48
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMsSIjQXxo&feature=player_embedded
Ill get what hes getting.
And contrary to popular belief, FERMI is not hot, FERMI is an architecture, it's unfair to say it's inherantly hot because it's not, take the GTX460 or GTS450 as examples. GF100 is hot, there's no denying that, but FERMI, by definition, isn't.
now at 20% faster than the gtx480 we're looking at a hair better than 5970 performance which wouldn't be bad if it were priced right. This is especially true if it's lower power/heat than the gtx480.
If reports by Fudzilla are true, the 6970 is a hot little beast as the AMD engineers try and squeeze every once of power out of it. I hope this is not true.
I'll not buy a 6970 that's hot and loud and power crazy (just as i didnt buy a GTX 480 for those reasons).
Heaven forbid, maybe i'll hang onto my 5850's until that GTX 580 comes out after all, then i'll decide which side does the best perf per watt.
At least a 30% and above increase with improvements in efficiency over the Fermi Architecture.:)