ASUS GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB

, on Nov 15th, 2010, in Graphics Cards. Manufacturer: ASUS

Introduction

Last week NVIDIA released their latest high-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX 580. It delivers substantially improved performance over the GTX 480 and also reduces power consumption and acoustic footprint compared to previous generation. ASUS has sent us their GTX 580 which is basically the NVIDIA reference design card with a sticker slapped on it. ASUS did not change the PCB or cooling design at all, but still added a slight clock improvement of 10 MHz over the reference design which is about 1.3% so the difference in performance should be negligible. Considering the card comes at no price increase compared to other reference cards this is still a good thing, because free things are always nice to get.

	GeForce GTX 460	GeForce GTX 460	Radeon HD 6850	Radeon HD 5850	GeForce GTX 470	Radeon HD 6870	Radeon HD 5870	GeForce GTX 480	GeForce GTX 580	ASUS ENGTX580	Radeon HD 5970
Shader units	336	336	960	1440	448	1120	1600	480	512	512	2x 1600
ROPs	24	32	32	32	40	32	32	48	48	48	2x 32
GPU	GF104	GF104	Barts	Cypress	GF100	Barts	Cypress	GF100	GF110	GF110	2x Cypress
Transistors	1950M	1950M	1700M	2154M	3200M	1700M	2154M	3200M	3000M	3000M	2x 2154M
Memory Size	768 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1280 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	1536 MB	1536 MB	1536 MB	2x 1024 MB
Memory Bus Width	192 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	320 bit	256 bit	256 bit	384 bit	384 bit	384 bit	2x 256 bit
Core Clock	675 MHz	675 MHz	775 MHz	725 MHz	607 MHz	900 MHz	850 MHz	700 MHz	772 MHz	782 MHz	725 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	900 MHz	1000 MHz	1000 MHz	837 MHz	1050 MHz	1200 MHz	924 MHz	1002 MHz	1002 MHz	1000 MHz
Price	$160	$200	$180	$260	$260	$240	$360	$450	$500	$500	$580