NVIDIA GTX 580 Launch Round-Up

November 9, 2010 Brett Taylor News, Video Cards 22

The GTX580s are already listed for sale this morning at Newegg.com starting at $559.99.  The stock core runs at 772 MHz and shader clock at 1544 MHz, but for $20 more you can get a factory overclocked EVGA SuperClocked model running 797 MHz and 1594 MHz respectively.  Mwave.com has the EVGA SuperClocked listed at $515 and the stock version at $499.

It is now officially announced by NVIDIA.

With the GeForce GTX 580, we increased the number of CUDA cores to 512 and cranked up the processor clock to 1.54GHz. Filtering for FP16 textures (commonly used in high dynamic range rendering) is now twice as fast. Z-cull, where invisible pixels are removed to avoid wasted shading, has been designed to be even more effective. The net result is that games on the GTX 580 run 15-20% faster than the GTX 480.

courtesy NVIDIA
courtesy NVIDIA

…and now the reviews are starting to roll in:

Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated throughout the day.

– splat

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#1 Nov 09, 2010

Nothing special really according to me :-/
The funniest fact is that 5970 is still faster in most tests...

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#2 Nov 09, 2010

Nothing special really according to me :-/
The funniest fact is that 5970 is still faster in most tests...

5970 is a dual GPU card. The "funniest fact" is that the 580 actually beats it in many games and costs much less.

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#4 Nov 09, 2010

It is a dual card but it is a wayyyy too old card too. It's not more expensive, the pricing is the same as gtx580...

So the ones who own a 5970 for a year already, they actually have no need to update because the fastest card today is actually not faster than the one that is a year old... regardless the number of GPUs...

I just expected the jump to be much bigger... not half an inch, that's it.

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#5 Nov 09, 2010

anybody know when a 560 gtx is going to come out? I'm thinking of stretching my 4850 just a little bit longer to wait.

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#6 Nov 09, 2010

5970 is a dual GPU card. The "funniest fact" is that the 580 actually beats it in many games and costs much less.

not anymore:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102887&cm_re=5970-_-14-102-887-_-Product

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#7 Nov 09, 2010

Yeah, they'd be crazy not to bring it down now that there's competition. Shame they were able to milk people for so long.

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#8 Nov 09, 2010

The 5970 is a bit unfair as a comparison since it's dual-GPU. And it is still better in most games, not the other way around. The GTX580 is a little better in some games. There are tons of false results across various review sites showing that the GTX580 is 'much better' than the HD5970 in a lot of games because they aren't using the proper drivers and/or crossfire profiles; notice how close the 5870 is to the 5970 in those tests (and in some, the 5970 is even lower), meaning crossfire isn't working right.

It was meant to beat the 480 and 5870 by significant margins with a more power-efficient design, and for the most part it does that. Average ~20% more performance than the 480 and ~30% more than the 5870 at high resolutions with AA.

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#9 Nov 09, 2010

The HD6870 CF and GTX580 SLI both scale very well, and sometimes perfectly which is good to see. I feel that the HD6870 has impressed me more though, as the GTX580 as expected still uses quite a fair bit of power, I was hoping for a larger drop. I think the HD6990 will be quite a big step from the GTX580(if that is what it will be called) as the HD5970 can keep up with it.

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#10 Nov 09, 2010

Well, I was wrong, it's not a paper launch and I was right...this is what the GTX 480 was supposed to be. My personal opinion...this is an optimized/reworked/corrected 480. Fast card though.

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