• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Full Specs and Release Date

    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Full Specs and Release Date

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      Jester
      Published on October 30th, 2010 03:00 PM
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      The GTX 580 is NVIDIA's next flagship GPU. Being a single card utilizing their new GF110 chipset, the GTX 580 looks to be a very impressive product. Full specifications and release date have been revealed!

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      The GTX 580 is the replacement for the current GTX 480, which did very well in our review. With the GTX 580, NVIDIA hopes to not only improve performance but also improve efficiency, making this card run cooler and use less power! The specifications for the GTX 580 are as follows.


      The GTX 580 uses the GF110 chipset, which is a reworked GTX 480. It does not have anymore resources but it is more power efficient. So we have 512 CUDA cores, 64 TMUs and 48 ROPs just like GF100 is capable of. Matched with the higher clock speeds, the GTX 580 has an improved pixel fill rate, texture fill rate and memory bandwidth. The texture fill rate is up from 42 billion/sec to 49.4 billion/sec while the pixel fill rate is up from 33.6 billion/sec to 37.06 billion/sec. The memory bandwidth has been increased from 177.4 GB/s to 192.4 GB/s. This brings up the GTX 580's performance by 15%-20% in games, according to NVIDIA, although a 3DMark Vantage run showed a 30% performance increase.

      Now it isn't all good news. The GTX 580 also has a decreased transistor count from 3.2 billion to 2.9 billion. This can lower GPGPU performance compared to the GTX 480, but we don't know for sure yet. This decrease in transistors was done to keep the TDP reasonable (and less than the GTX 480).

      Now lets have a look at the card itself...

      Below are images of NVIDIA's reference GTX 580. You can see two DVI ports and a mini HDMI port at the back, just like the GTX 480.


      The GTX 580 retains the same 10.5 inch length (26.67 cm) as the GTX 480.




      Just like the GTX 480, two SLI bridge connections are present. This gives the GTX 580 compatibility with up to 4-way SLI, just like the GTX 480.


      Image of the heat sink. Same concept as typical blower cards. The fan at the front forces air over the heat sink and out of the case. The heat sink is slightly smaller than the GTX 480 which has extruding heat pipes. The GTX 480 also has nickel plating applied to the heat pipes to resist oxidation. However the GTX 580's heat pipes appear to be slightly thicker although there is no confirmation on this. But unlike the GTX 480, there is no part of the fan shroud permanently attached to the heat sink.

      At the moment, no GTX 580 samples have been given out, but they will be given out on November 9 which also happens to be the release date. EVGA will receive 2,500 of these cards on November 9th. More details will be available soon, so keep in touch for updates!

      - GND News Staff
      Categories:
      1. Graphics Cards
      Tags : dx11, fermi, geforce, geforce gtx 580, gf110, gpu, graphics card, graphics processing unit, gtx 580, nvidia, nvidia geforce gtx 580, nvidia gpu, nvidia vga, vga, video graphics adapter

      Comments 37 Comments
      1. Bored's Avatar
        Bored - October 30th, 2010
        I like the panda in the last picture.
        If the card comes with the picture of the panda I will buy it.
      1. thecraponahat's Avatar
        thecraponahat - October 30th, 2010
        will there really be a panda that would make a nice hidden sig
      1. Joe's Avatar
        Joe - October 31st, 2010
        PANDARRRR.

        Great post, coming out alot sooner than expected.
      1. eXile's Avatar
        eXile - October 31st, 2010
        Im buying it if it comes with the panda too
      1. strudinox's Avatar
        strudinox - October 31st, 2010
        Too bad my stepup on my 470 expired yesterday.
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - October 31st, 2010
        By the way guys I found out that this card has a 6-pin and 8-pin PCI-E connector. So the TDP is between 225W and 300W. The GTX 480's is 250W but it can consume 300W of power in stress testers. Still not bad, remember that non reference GTX 480 shown a while back with the same resources? It had dual 8-pin PCI-E connectors.
      1. strudinox's Avatar
        strudinox - October 31st, 2010
        Thanks for the update.
      1. BabyBalla's Avatar
        BabyBalla - October 31st, 2010
        TDP isn't how much voltages it uses. It how much heat it generates... A lot of people forget that.

        This card max draw is 300w 75+75+150, PCI-e slot. 6 pin and 8 pin connectors. My guess is that the card will be a consuming max of 275w. You have around 25watts for Overclocking, Meaning your overclock probably be cut in half.

        The GTX470 TDP is 215w, Each heatpipe (8mm) can handle around 42.3 watts.

        As you can see in this picture


        The 470 heatsink has 5 heatpipes at 8mm each The cooler on the card is barely can handle the beast.

        This card has the simaliar cooling setup meaning that this will output more heat then it can dissipate. The fin density and the upped fan size will probably help. But you won't see low, cool temps like the 460 or 470.

        Clock for clock you see 5-20fps gain depending on game and settings with this card
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - November 1st, 2010
        Who mentioned anything about voltage? TDP = thermal design power and as you say it is a measurement of the heat (in watts) generated by the card. The TDP is not equal to the maximum power consumption of the card either, but the two are close together. You can exceed 300W power consumption for the card - this power would be given through the PCI-E slot. A PCI-E 2.0 slot is rated at 75W but can exceed this. I didn't know that the heat pipes were 8mm thick though, good news. Same for the GTX 480 as well then. A 20 FPS increase is not going to be seen in many games, maybe those that already run hundreds of frames per second with a GTX 480.
      1. Enad's Avatar
        Enad - November 1st, 2010
        No word on a price yet it seems...
      1. WASD's Avatar
        WASD - November 1st, 2010
        jesus ****ing christ! makes me wish i heald off on my gpu. im betting this will cause some sweet price drops.
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - November 1st, 2010
        Well it won't affect the performance/gamer market much, which is where your GTX 460 is. However the recent AMD 6850 and 6870 caused a price drop on the GTX 460s since they're faster, more efficient and were the same price.
      1. oasis789's Avatar
        oasis789 - November 1st, 2010
        great for heating up your room in the cold winter months!
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - November 2nd, 2010
        Quote Originally Posted by oasis789 View Post
        great for heating up your room in the cold winter months!
        Sadly even my overclocked/overvolted GTX 480 which has a higher TDP than the GTX 580, and runs at 99% all the time (either folding or gaming) doesn't do a good job of heating up my room and temperatures are declining since November started.
      1. Darken1's Avatar
        Darken1 - November 3rd, 2010
        Does this means that it will fold worst than a GTX 480?

        GF110 focuses on retail, without HPC functionsWe have had a hard time seeing how NVIDIA would be able to activate its sixteenth SM unit without severe problems with the power consumption. But with GF110 NVIDIA made an active choice and sacrificed the HPC functionality (High Performance Computing) that it talked so boldly about for Fermi, not only to make it smaller but also more efficient.

        According to sources to NordicHardware it can be as many as 300 million transistors that NVIDIA has been able to cut in this way. The effect is that GF110 will be a GPU targetting only retail and will not be as efficient for GPGPU applications as the older siblings of the Fermi Tesla family. Something few users will care about.
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - November 3rd, 2010
        Yes it has 300 million transistors less than the GTX 480. jedi95 is confident that the GTX 580 won't fold worse though. I'll wait until we see some results.
      1. thecraponahat's Avatar
        thecraponahat - November 3rd, 2010
        the one with the panda will be its stock cooler?? its got 5 heat pipes and fins good think I didn't pickup a 460 i think i'll jump to series 5
      1. werty316's Avatar
        werty316 - November 3rd, 2010
        Word on the street is that this thing will cost around ~$599 which isn't a real since all highend cards are always priced quite high.

        My main concern would be the amount of heat the GTX 580 will put out. Hopefully this new cooler can handle it.
      1. strudinox's Avatar
        strudinox - November 3rd, 2010
        I'm not worried about the heat so much because it's expected to run as cool as a 460-470. Which is why it doesn't require a bigger cooler like the 480 has.
      1. Jester's Avatar
        Jester - November 4th, 2010
        The TDP for the GTX 580 is said to be 244W. If this is true, that's only 6W less than the GTX 480. Heat won't be much different but it will be more quiet due to its larger fan.
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