Nvidia confirms the GTX 580

[Vipeax]

So the avarage performance improvement to the GTX 480 is only 13% (1920*1200)

No, the performance of the GTX480 is 87% of the GTX580... that actually comes down to a 15% improvement!

Edit:
I was slow .

[Katzenschleuder]

No, the performance of the GTX480 is 87% of the GTX580... that actually comes down to a 15% improvement!

Edit:
I was slow .

Well THAT makes a difference.

[Vipeax]

Well THAT makes a difference.

It's a lot better than going backwards (8800GTX -> 9800GTX)....

[Pantsu]

Well pretty much the only conclusion you can draw from that performance wise is that it is around 15% faster than a 480. Better to wait other reviews with proper drivers to see how it really compares to other cards. Then again it doesn't really even matter how it compares to 5870 or 5970, both are about to be EOL.

Now that the obligatory criticism has been handed, I have to applaud that Nvidia did manage to get something out this quickly. Overall the GTX 580 seems like a decent upgrade over 480. Though I'd still wait to see what Cayman will offer.

[tajoh111]

Does SLI scaling suck or is it just me ?

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...80_SLI/24.html

Massively CPU limited and game limited, hence scaling gets higher when your none CPU limited at higher settings.

WTF TPU, why wouldn't you review this card's current main competitor with new drivers??

Especially when you conducted an EARLIER review (HD6870) WITH new drivers?

Especially when there was so much sh@# about you using older drivers in your GTX 480 review months ago... Talk about not learning a lesson.

I hope this is something about these being the "preliminary" review and it'll be fixed in the real review, but that's not a very realistic thing to hope for...

I said this before and I will say it again. You go to tech powerup not for the newest drivers from certain cards, but for the sheer number of games and cards which might not be on other reviews. You would be surprised how many people will be upgrading from gtx 280, 4870, 4870x2 and others.

Theres a reason that why he doesn't retest with newer drivers and that reason is simply the amount of work would be freakish. E.g 20 odd videocards, 20+ plus games and benchmarks = too much work for any one man or person(400+ runs * how many averages he takes).

Take the style for what it is because there are a dozens of reviews that use newest drivers, etc; only techpowerup has this many many games, this many cards, performance percentages, price to performance ratio's, detailed power analysis and etc. I usually look at three reviews, anandtech(recently), hardwarecanucks and techpowerup. Its not like he is using launch drivers. He has updated the drivers as well. At first he used 9.10 for AMD cards, then 10.2 now 10.7. When he has time(when a new launch card hasn't been dumped onto his lap), he will update the review accordingly.

So don't be so critical, because this is a lot of work for a reviewer and wizzard still has GPU-Z to worry about.