Nvidia confirms the GTX 580

[Gaul]

ok, it was catalyst, I've gone back down to 10.5 and everything is sweet, something was funky with 10.8 and 10.9

so I have clocked the core to 900 for the time being
and memory to 1150... I'll post soon

waiting mode ON .......

[96redformula]

Me thinks more like walking a grade than a step from that point.

You lost me on the sentence quoted above. Did you mean that it was or is a big step up from his current setup?

[Zloyd]

with promo code this is ~510$ not too bad ..... new release. Im wondering if you guys want to pick this up now before demand makes the price creep up(or promo code expires). If amd dont have a answer to this anytime soon prices arent going to be going down anytime soon. Going by those charts performance isnt shattering or anything ..... its a appreciable boost over the 480 considering this is about 6months after that card. It doesnt beat the 5970 .... so really amd should be able to match this on a single chip. If they dont thats pretty fail imo.

[highoctane]

You lost me on the sentence quoted above. Did you mean that it was or is a big step up from his current setup?

No I was more or less meaning its not such a big jump from what he already has, like a smooth upward grade than a full big step up, just bad word play on my part.

[Carbon_Unit]

with promo code this is ~510$ not too bad ..... new release. Im wondering if you guys want to pick this up now before demand makes the price creep up(or promo code expires). If amd dont have a answer to this anytime soon prices arent going to be going down anytime soon.

It's a gamble. The 5870's never did drop below their launch price until very recently. Like you said, it highly depends on what AMD responds with, and when.

[kuroikenshi]

waiting mode ON .......

I might need better drivers.. or more OC..




I'll try with cat 10.9...

[ajaidev]

Cheapest GTX 580 on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-542-_-Product $560 "$504 after 10% discount"

Cheapest 5970 on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-887-_-Product $500 "$470 after mail-in rebate card "

If you dont mind CF i would pick 5970 but its a better idea to wait for 6950 and 6970. I have this feeling that 6950/6970 may end up costing $500. The difference between GTX 580 and 5970 after mail in rebate and 10% off is $30 which is a good discount at least in my view given 5970's performance and energy efficiency.

[GoldenTiger]

Cheapest GTX 580 on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-542-_-Product $560

Minus 10% off code $560 - 56 = 504.

[96redformula]

Minus 10% off code $560 - 56 = 504.

I personally would go with Mwave because of the dirty trick newegg did with the price inflation to neutralize the code. It bothers me to know this probably was planned before they released the 10% code.

[spursindonesia]

Its funny to see them in stock at newegg after a few where heckling big about a paper launch early on and all the other doom and gloom it'll never happen attitude.

They all have the 10% off offer from newegg as well so price is about inline as long as the discount is around.

I will give credit where it's due, and i think nVidia deserve one today, it is quite real, hard launch AFAIK.

Whether the stock is abundant & can satisfy early demand, and then the supply is continuous, we'll have to see further down the road. They started it well.

[ajaidev]

Minus 10% off code $560 - 56 = 504.

opps did not see that editing post thx

[tajoh111]

Something tells me if the cayman xt is faster, NV will paper launch a gtx 580 ultra with another 10% higher clock and a non-stock cooler.

[highoctane]

Something tells me if the cayman xt is faster, NV will paper launch a gtx 580 ultra with another 10% higher clock and a non-stock cooler.

I think they'll leave it up to the vendors to push custom cooled solutions with higher clocks but you never know.

[Chrono Detector]

Not impressed by the GTX 580, they should have called it the GTX 485. I'll wait for the 6990 and NVIDIA's dual card, if they are making one.

[GoldenTiger]

I personally would go with Mwave because of the dirty trick newegg did with the price inflation to neutralize the code. It bothers me to know this probably was planned before they released the 10% code.

Yeah, strikes me as pretty scuzzy... I'm actually very tempted to cancel and go with mWave who says they have it in stock, it would be cheaper too ($484 shipped vs. 517 shipped), just not sure when it would arrive at that point and I'd kick myself if newegg then lowered the price and I could have gotten it even cheaper still...

[kuroikenshi]

no, GTX580 did far surpass a well clocked 5970 on Tessellation capabilities, it deserves at least the crown on that department.

now for games not using this much tesselation, I can run a couple more tests if you guys want...



catalyst 10.9 core 925 /mem 1155 / volt 1.2

[spursindonesia]

Something tells me if the cayman xt is faster, NV will paper launch a gtx 580 ultra with another 10% higher clock and a non-stock cooler.

That's quite possible, 7800 GTX 512 part deux. Handpicked the best chips, give it a bit more voltage & better cooling (bleeding ears be damned), put 3 GB VRAM while doing it (must trump over 2 GB VRAM), stay under 300 w limit (nVidiaWatt standard), done. nVidia don't give a chit about dual GPU card this round, but keeping the single fastest GPU title is very important for them.

[emertX]

Anyone there with a 480 and a 580?
I'd love to know if it's possible to overwrite the BIOS from 480 to 580?!

[quake6]

I doubt you can (99% you can't) as there seems gtx 580 have different pcb

[FlanK3r]

again very bad power consumption :-/

[Olivon]

again very bad power consumption :-/

220W is not too bad but I hope AMD will do better

[cold2010]

coolers gtx 580 and gtx 480

[hurrdurr]

It performs and is priced similarly to a 5970; but if it's between 5970 and 580 it's not even a question - you should ALWAYS go with the single GPU card. So unless AMD drops 5970 prices even more, 580 is the high end card to go right now. More so if you are going to SLI/CF - 580 SLI would eat 5970 CF.

However, we all know that the main competition for this card will be the 6900 series, not 5900.

[initialised]

Playtime!

[tajoh111]

Googled and found a 2nd review(which was found by some guy named blastingcap at Hardocp forums)

http://translate.google.com/translat...force-gtx-580/

Has more details on the changes to the architecture, maybe they will be able to get a bit more performance with drivers afterall.