Since no one is posting this..
NOTE: This is a PRELIMINARY REVIEW. The page is stamped with Preliminary all over the place!
Quick summary:
1) It will be $499
2) It consumes less power than a 480, more than a 5970
3) Quieter than the 5xxx/GTX 4xx line/GTX280
4) Beats the 5970 in a half the games tested, loses in the other half
Single Card Review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...GTX_580/1.html
SLI Review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...580_SLI/1.html
Edited by r34p3rex - 11/8/10 at 3:26pm
Quote:
| Enter the GeForce GTX 580. If two weeks ago somebody told us that today NVIDIA would be hard-launching a new high-end graphics processor under a new product family (the GeForce GTX 500 series), we'd have laughed out loud. We were too busy looking in AMD's direction for its new high-end GPU in the works, which is still nowhere in the horizon. It's that freaky moment in which you're slowly treading your way in a fairly linear horror FPS game, and turn around to find a monster breathing down on you. If the fact that NVIDIA was working on releasing a new high-end successor to the Fermi based GTX 480 today wasn't surprise enough, the fact the GeForce GTX 580 is claimed by NVIDIA to be the "best" GPU, and not just the fastest, certainly is. The GeForce GTX 480 gave us more than satisfactory performance, but was a bit of a let down on the thermals, and power consumption fronts. The claim that NVIDIA made the GeForce GTX 580 to outperform the GTX 480 and have better thermals and lower power draw certainly raises some eyebrows, because NVIDIA is building the GF110 GPU on a TSMC 40 nm process, just like the existing GF100 "Fermi". |
Quick summary:
1) It will be $499
2) It consumes less power than a 480, more than a 5970
3) Quieter than the 5xxx/GTX 4xx line/GTX280
4) Beats the 5970 in a half the games tested, loses in the other half
Single Card Review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...GTX_580/1.html
SLI Review: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...580_SLI/1.html
Edited by r34p3rex - 11/8/10 at 3:26pm
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