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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PCinLife
213 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Reference Design Graphics Card Pictured
True are Fudzilla reports if fake.
bbs.expreview.com/viewthread.php?tid=37391&rpid=274471&ordertype=0&page=1#pid274471
Although heat will play a major part in my choice as im being cooked alive as i type :roll:
GTX580 like 5% faster than 6970 and 100USD more
6950 equal or slightly faster than GTX480 for 300USD
6990 kicking both of their asses(25% - 30%) for 150USD more (than GTX580)
HD 6950 300USD
HD 6970 400USD
GTX 580 500USD
HD 6990 650USD
PD: HD 6990 will be 2x HD 6950
It's not like a genius is needed to figure that out.
just hope when "paper launch" tested, its not hot as GF100 so the fin doesnt need to spinning on full speed.
And, considering I water cool, I don't care about the stock cooler or heat output.
All I want to know is performance and price.
Creepy panda 'shop.
And if the GTX 580 is powerful and doesn't heat up so much i might be going green. ;)
7% more shaders than the gtx 480
10% more core and shader clock
= memory clock
= bus width
:shadedshu, something is not right..
Also if this turns out to be gf100 and not a refiddle of 460 then LULZ at paying for and overclocked 480 lol ( I know it has more shaders, but I think the overclocking potential of this new card will be crippled, so 580 vs 480 = pretty equal.
Infact
buy one of these chaps
techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/N480GTX_GTX_480_Lightning/31.html
20% improvement over a 480 XD
www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-6000-us.html
Just compare Quadro 5000, 5800 and 6000, to notice the difference. ;)
Yeah sure. :rolleyes:
However, it wouldn't surprise me if the GTX 580 is actually not severely delayed. After all, it's going to use a refined chip that nvidia have had a year to work on.
I'll be bookmarking bta's news post and compare the real product when it comes with these pictures.
Has anyone tried to put a 480 stock cooler on a 5870 card? If possible and the 5870 is hotter with the "newer" cooler, then the 480 is hotter the the 5870.
Anyone considered that it's the cooler that sucks and not the card that's hotter?
Personally, i would like to see someone putting a stock 5870 cooler on a 480 and vice-versa and compare temps: it would once and for all resolve this (if @ all possible, ofc).
Of course in the case of GTX480 the bigger die area is not enough to make up the difference, because the power consumption difference is just too high. But in previous generations Nvidia cards used to be cooler despite consuming the same or a little more.