Leaked: Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 specs and images

[Jibberish18]

hitech0101 said:
It seems the we are getting the new cards but not the right programs that can actually utilize the entire power these babies provide.

We're getting there. The exciting thing is that FINALLY programmers are finally developing software to utilize your GPU. The GPU can only do a few things well but BOY does it do them gracefully. The benefit of using GPU's to do thing is great. They're much more powerful than the CPU and can save you battery life. Virtually all of the major browsers will use the GPU to render things on your webpage. Flash now uses it for H264 (Don't know about other formats). Silverlight uses it.

Also, you've got to remember, while hardware technology advances quickly, software is usually late to the game. I attribute this to either lack of great programmers or just not being able to keep up with the latest and greatest technologies.

 

[dawgtothebone]

hmm is there any reason other than power consumption to upgrade from the GTX 280,I have a 19 wide screen monitor (1440 x 900 resolution). Can anyone suggest a graphically intensive game that will bring my setup to its knee's.

I believe anyone on using the gtx 280/285 or above does not need a new card for at least 2 years.Feel the same way with AMD's 5870.

 

[CyberChrist]

hitech0101 said:
It seems the we are getting the new cards but not the right programs that can actually utilize the entire power these babies provide.

I really would love some more DX11 games. Especially ones that could take advantage of some hardcore tessellation. Is there even a game that really uses tessellation to its fullest at this point? I know a couple of benchmarks do.

 

[shortie]

I bet you can fry 2 eggs now instead of one on this card

 

[LinkedKube]

hmm is there any reason other than power consumption to upgrade from the GTX 280,I have a 19 wide screen monitor (1440 x 900 resolution). Can anyone suggest a graphically intensive game that will bring my setup to its knee's.

I believe anyone on using the gtx 280/285 or above does not need a new card for at least 2 years.Feel the same way with AMD's 5870.

Some of us play with 26-30" monitors. If you were to upgrade to something similar you may see issues.

 

[Neojt]

Colonel Lance said:
Is it just me or does China seems to be the major source of tech leaks?

Well they do have the world fastest supercomputer

 

[IkarugaShiver]

Serious question, but whatever happened to the 3xx series of Nvidia GeForce cards? And the 1xx? They went from 9xxx to 2xx to 4xx and now to 5xx...??
And damn, Nvidia and ATi are releasing new lines at a ridiculously fast rate...

 

[sMILEY4ever]

I wonder how the power consumption will compare to the 480...

 

[kevin1212]

If this card delivers the performance that its specs indicate, along with improved efficiency that is at least on par with their gtx 460, then nvidia definitely has a competitor here. Assuming that is the case, then all they have to do is price it right. Then more price wars for us, which we haven't had in about a year.

 

[dawgtothebone]

supersmashbrada said:

hmm is there any reason other than power consumption to upgrade from the GTX 280,I have a 19 wide screen monitor (1440 x 900 resolution). Can anyone suggest a graphically intensive game that will bring my setup to its knee's.

I believe anyone on using the gtx 280/285 or above does not need a new card for at least 2 years.Feel the same way with AMD's 5870.

Some of us play with 26-30" monitors. If you were to upgrade to something similar you may see issues.

Yes I realized how the resolution and size of the screen affect performance.Does it not get difficult playing on such huge screens? you must been using a pretty sweet mouse with a high dpi setting.

If money is not an issue for some ppl and they would like to play on really big screens, say 42" why not just get the Tesla M2070 then they would be sweet for a really long time.

The world is riddled with consumerism.

 

[LinkedKube]

The tesla m2070 is for a totally different kind of computing. DPI setting are usually popular for fps games, otherwise windows mouse settings and adjustments are adequate. I could see a 280 being enough for anything below 24" of monitor to play around on and while we love our really high settings everyone still looks forward to an upgrade. No matter how small.

 

[TeamworkGuy2]

Wow, another video card release coming up in the near future..!
This is getting exciting, should be interesting if other 5xx series cards are coming up right behind the GTX 580.

 

[dawgtothebone]

supersmashbrada said:
The tesla m2070 is for a totally different kind of computing. DPI setting are usually popular for fps games, otherwise windows mouse settings and adjustments are adequate. I could see a 280 being enough for anything below 24" of monitor to play around on and while we love our really high settings everyone still looks forward to an upgrade. No matter how small.

hehe.true its always exciting with new technologies.

 

[Richy2k9]

hello ...

would love it, but by the time games would use it's potential, new technology would be needed & new chipsets would be out.

cheers!

 

[bioflex]

just when i thought amd had hit the trump card......hehe now this is going to be tough but i really wished amd owned nvidia this time.

 

[killamoves]

This isn't really the 5xx series its just an update to the 480. They are naming it the 580 to market it against AMD's 6000 series.

 

[jazboy]

think how much power it will have man ..

 

[Se7enVII]

Yay more competition from Nvidia. With AMD releasing the 6900 series next month I was beginning to get worried for competition's sake. I think I will be getting a 6870 though myself.

 

[LinkedKube]

So someone clarify for me. ATI has a die shrink with these next cards? Because if they don't I see a 4-6 month gap next year for nvidia>ati.

 

[Guest]

There's probably going to be a 1.7% increase in house fires after this release.

 

[gayfish]

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exactly.. anyway nvidia is ahead only in software department right now. physix ,cuda and not to forget most of the games are optimized for nvidia

 

[klepto12]

This is just a GTX480 with everything turned on that was originally supposed to be there but it is probably going to be early 2011 before we see any of them and once again amd will still have a duel card out over nvidia and have the single card performance crown. I think just grab a 6870 and call it good till the 7000 series cards come out then upgrade.

 

[0192837465]

I'm glade to hear that, it's really such a super GPU , and the good news is if the new Nvidia GeForce card come to the market Crysis 2 will come as will.

 

[princeton]

I'm still on the GTX 260 .

 

[Nevercheck]

alright let the high end graphics card battle continue!!! go price drop on the last gen!!!