With the real high-end battle still to take place Nvidia is not sitting around waiting for AMD to strike back. Instead, they are getting ready to release their second GF110-based product. The GeForce GTX 570 should be hitting shelves shortly, featuring similar specifications to that of the GTX 480 but with a lower price at around $350.
As the GeForce GTX 470 was to the GTX 480, the GTX 570 is a cut down version of the recently released GTX 580. Thermals and operating efficiency will remain much the same, as will the features. What has changed is the core configuration, operating frequencies
Posted November 30, 2010, 2:50 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
A product slide for the Palit-made GeForce GTX 570 has slipped onto the web ahead of its embargo date, revealing the card's specifications and release date. As expected, the GTX 570 is based on the same optimized GF110 GPU as…
Posted November 15, 2010, 4:52 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Hoping to snag a GTX 460 1GB for the price of a 768MB model? Nvidia has just what you're looking for. The GPU-maker has introduced its GTX 460 SE, which packs 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM for the same cost as…
Posted November 9, 2010, 8:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in HardwareBreaking News
Nvidia has rolled out the red carpet for its latest flagship graphics card: the GeForce GTX 580. Touted as the world's fastest DirectX 11 GPU, the company has tweaked its GTX 480 to achieve a 20-30% performance-per-watt increase with a…
Posted October 29, 2010, 10:36 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
One Chinese website has posted a purported spec sheet for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 and another Chinese website has posted two images of the graphics card. Have the Chinese essentially leaked Nvidia's latest and greatest? The card should be…
Posted October 21, 2010, 5:27 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
Nvidia is expected to launch its GF110-based GeForce GTX 580 sometime before the end of the year (late November or early December). The Fermi-based graphics chipset will perform 20 percent faster than the current GeForce GTX 480, according to sources…
Posted October 12, 2010, 2:30 PM by Erik Orejuela | Filed in Hardware, Software
The latest beta drivers from Nvidia, version 260.89, offer a handful of improvements that make them worth downloading, especially if you have a GeForce GTX 480 or 460. There is a decent list of games with speed improvements, SLI enhancements,…
Posted October 11, 2010, 3:24 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
Nvidia has quietly rolled out a new addition to its range of graphics cards that finally makes the Fermi architecture available to users on a tight budget. The GeForce GT 430 comes in at around $80 and is being is…
Posted September 14, 2010, 8:44 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Hardware, Software
Along with the newly released GeForce GTS 450 GPU, Nvidia was ready to launch a major revision of their graphics driver adding new features and claiming performance improvements. In usual fashion, the new GeForce 260 beta driver supports all GeForce…
Posted September 12, 2010, 11:45 PM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
Nvidia landed an astounding blow to AMD last July pulling the GeForce GTX 460 out of nowhere and quickly taking the lead as the best mid-range graphics card on the market. It's only been a few weeks since and the…
Posted September 6, 2010, 9:16 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Gaming
Nvidia still hasn’t made an official announcement but their next mainstream desktop product, the GF106-based GeForce GTS 450, has already been fully exposed and put up for pre-order by various online retailers. The card will be positioned as the successor…
Posted August 24, 2010, 6:35 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
When wrapping up our initial GeForce GTX 460 coverage on launch day we mentioned the interesting thought of running two 1GB cards in SLI which would cost a whisker less than $500. This matches the price of a single GeForce…
Posted August 23, 2010, 10:51 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
After a less than stellar debut of the Fermi architecture Nvidia finally won us over in the $200 price segment with the GF104-based Geforce GTX 460 graphics card. We've heard a flurry of rumors about lower-end (read: more affordable) derivatives…
Posted July 22, 2010, 9:54 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
Nvidia recently quelled all complaints about the efficiency of its Fermi architecture with a card that's not only faster than its similarly priced competitor; it also consumes slightly less power, runs cooler and quieter. The GF104-based GTX 460 is already…
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