NV News GTX 580 Review

[ragejg]

Just finished it up. Enjoy.

LINK

[James_on]

ragejg where you bought the GTX580?

[ragejg]

ragejg where you bought the GTX580?

I'm Editor In Chief of NV News. It's an NVIDIA Reference review card.

[James_on]

Bad :-( I wanted to by

[James_on]

What do you think, GTX480 GTX580 at frequencies much loses?

[ragejg]

What do you think, GTX480 GTX580 at frequencies much loses?

That's a question for reviewers who have tested both a 480 and a 580. All of my other recent cards have been more midrange-ish (GTS 450, GTX 460, GTX 465, HD 5830), so the 580 basically just feels like a huge upgrade.

[zanzabar]

What do you think, GTX480 GTX580 at frequencies much loses?

they are the same gpu, its got a couple extra TMUs and 512shaders from being a full gpu, im disappointed that they did not fix it by changing to a gf104 type gpu to get more ROPs per shader and i would bet that a full gf104 would beat it when clocked to be at the same wattage. this should make the 480 a good deal if u want to bench and it looks like the same pcb so maybe the 480 can be unlocked.

it is a nice new rev of the chip but i dont see them not taking the new rev of the silicone to the other gf100 parts, and the 10% more clocks with less watt is nice but it just dose not seam up to what they hype was.

[ragejg]

they are the same gpu, its got a couple extra TMUs and 512shaders from being a full gpu, im disappointed that they did not fix it by changing to a gf104 type gpu to get more ROPs per shader and i would bet that a full gf104 would beat it when clocked to be at the same wattage. this should make the 480 a good deal if u want to bench and it looks like the same pcb so maybe the 480 can be unlocked.

it is a nice new rev of the chip but i dont see them not taking the new rev of the silicone to the other gf100 parts, and the 10% more clocks with less watt is nice but it just dose not seam up to what they hype was.

Where on earth do you get your info? They're not the same GPU, not by a country mile! I take it you didn't even really give the link in the OP the time of day.

[zanzabar]

Where on earth do you get your info? They're not the same GPU, not by a country mile! I take it you didn't even really give the link in the OP the time of day.

ive been looking at them all day (including the one that the OP), its a full gf100 with a lower transistor count, so that is telling me that its the same part just trimmed to remove the fixes that were supposed to be hurried from the bad TSMC 40nm have now been worked out. so NV was saying it was going to be somehting great and new but to me it looks like what the gf100 was originally specked to.

im not saying that its bad just i thought we would get more, the drop is power is really nice and the 10% clock look nice but the benches look like a little over what the 480 should be with the same clock.

[dengyong]

Just finished it up. Enjoy.

The review should be posted here at XS please... Link to forum rule> http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=112364

[owned666]

ive been looking at them all day (including the one that the OP), its a full gf100 with a lower transistor count, so that is telling me that its the same part just trimmed to remove the fixes that were supposed to be hurried from the bad TSMC 40nm have now been worked out. so NV was saying it was going to be somehting great and new but to me it looks like what the gf100 was originally specked to.

im not saying that its bad just i thought we would get more, the drop is power is really nice and the 10% clock look nice but the benches look like a little over what the 480 should be with the same clock.

lower transistor count ?

its 3B.

im not attacking u or anything im just a bit confused
and isnt the 580GTX just a fix
the 9800gtx is for the 8800gtx
as the 580GTX is to the 480GTX
they just fixed the heat issue and a small performance jump
they have been doing this since the 8800gtx
8800 GTX - 9800GTX cooler faster
GTX 280 - GTX 285 cooler faster
GTX 480 - GTX 580 cooler faster

[Peakr]

NV News still alive? Used to be a pretty good site back in the day now it's just add space and review links.

[zanzabar]

lower transistor count ?

its 3B.

im not attacking u or anything im just a bit confused
and isnt the 580GTX just a fix
the 9800gtx is for the 8800gtx
as the 580GTX is to the 480GTX
they just fixed the heat issue and a small performance jump
they have been doing this since the 8800gtx
8800 GTX - 9800GTX cooler faster
GTX 280 - GTX 285 cooler faster
GTX 480 - GTX 580 cooler faster

i guess u are right i thought i saw that it dropped some.

and the 8800gtx to 9800gtx is not correct it was the 8800gts512 to 9800gtx/gtx+

[ragejg]

NV News still alive? Used to be a pretty good site back in the day now it's just add space and review links.

We're embarking on a fairly aggressive initiative to improve the quality of the site and community. I've been around there since '02 (and around here since '03) so I have a pretty good understanding of where and when some of the good things started to drop off a bit.

I do appreciate your insight though.

We'll be revising the front page and review UI, getting more relevant and less obtrusive ads, we're picking up some more/new review partners, and will be doing some other stuff to be more helpful and informative to our community and to the other great hardware enthusiast communities/sites.

So yeah, we're still alive I've been a mod and reviewer there since '03, but only recently I started working as Editor In Chief there, and as long as I have the power to improve things I will. In the end we might be looking at things more from the perspective of a hardware site than just a fansite.

[Peakr]

So yeah, we're still alive I've been a mod and reviewer there since '03, but only recently I started working as Editor In Chief there, and as long as I have the power to improve things I will. In the end we might be looking at things more from the perspective of a hardware site than just a fansite.

Good news for NVNews. It was one of my daily favs.