Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 580, new community site

i hope the custom vapor chamber works great. specs look great, i just feel bad for the people of have bought an GTX 480 within the last month

These images are rather off; they start at 0.80 or something else. That's no problem for noise, sine that is logarithmic, but otherwise they give the wrong impression.
Also, why compare to 5870cf? They should know that GTX480SLI/GTX460SLI/5970CF/6870CF performs better, so the graph gives no proof at all.
The funny thing is that if this is going to continue, NVIDIA/AMD will have their roles switched. AMD will have a good medium level GPU(6870/6850) and NVIDIA will have a good high level GPU(GTX580).

I'm glad that nVidia is finally taking the heat and noise into consideration. This looks to be a very nice card... I just picked up a 460 GTX.... maybe I will have to use my 90-day upgrade to get one of these cards for Christmas!

I want one now

Gotta find a way to sell my GTX 480...

Cooling solution looks to have come directly from ATI 58XX series, externally of course. I suppose when your previous high end cards were doubling as breakfast griddles it forces you to look elsewhere. I love to see the Nvidia/Ati competition but at this price point it's not going to matter much to me. The real action for many of us is in the midrange. Luckily it looks like the GTX460 vs the new 68XX seems to be going well and prices are reflecting that.

I was soo close to getting a GTX460 but I might just save a little more and get this, unless the TS review says otherwise

Can it play Crysis?

I hope TS add it to the review

The MSRP is $499, but the average retail price, like it is for every new product, is hiked up. That's the price of early adoption.

That was quick!!! Nvidia obviously doesn't want to loose any more of the GPU market interest.

C'mon nvidia, just because you are losing out to AMD atm doesnt mean you have to rig the statistics. Here, I FTFY: http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6770/liesdamnedliesandstatis.png

Those graphs are made to look realllly good for Nvidia, haha.

Yes, definitely. Although "play" is a disputable term...
It probably can't pull 60 fps in Crysis Warhead @ 2560 x 1600.
I am quite excited to see the true benchmarks from TSF.

Can someone please explain the #'s on the left? What am I looking at here? I'm use to framerate.

And another problem, the charts they're using are comparing to AMD's upper mid range, not their comparable top of the line card. I'd like to see this compared to a 5970 for a real comparison. And that said, even if it's beating that now, AMD is just around the corner with it's new high end release in the 69xx series cards. I'll wait to see real benchmarks from an independent source before I would consider this the new fastest card. Of course, practically speaking most of the money being spent will be in the mid range, which AMD has solidly locked up.

So glad I purchased my 480's from evga. UPGRADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Jibberish18 Those numbers represent the percentage that the new cards can reach. Basically the GTX480s are all at 1.00(control). So the other bars show how much more powerful the new features make the new cards with various benchmarks and games. According to this, the max looks to be 30%. Looks like most graphs here use that format.

Sounds like Nvidia is making progress. I still prefer AMD/ATI but at this rate, I may switch back.

There is no word on power consumption? It defines the efficiency

I'll wait for the reviews. Of course you're going to get the best propaganda from either manufacturer upon the release of a new card. Especially when they're claiming to be at the top of the heap again.

Lol, very sneaky Y axis usage from Nvidia there. At first glance I just figured the data was bogus, but upon further examination I realized that they are just sly like that.
Sooo.... when are we expecting the GTX560 then?

This thing looks insane. Once again I'll wait for the 3rd party reviewers to get their hands on this. Besides it's one thing to show a bunch of impressive numbers and a totally different thing to actually use one. I'd really like some outside impressions on this card before I get reallyc razy about it.