NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested 149
MojoKid writes "Even before NVIDIA's GF100 GPU-based GeForce GTX 480 officially arrived, there were a myriad of reports claiming the cards would be hot, loud, and consume a lot of power. Of course, NVIDIA knew that well before the first card ever hit store shelves, so the company got to work on a revision of the GPU and card itself that would attempt to address these concerns. Today the company has launched the GeForce GTX 580 and as its name suggests, it's a next-gen product, but the GF110 GPU powering the card is largely unchanged from the GF100 in terms of its features. However, refinements have been made to the design and manufacturing of the chip, along with its cooling solution and PCB. In short, the GeForce GTX 580 turned out to be the fastest, single-GPU on the market currently. It can put up in-game benchmark scores between 30% and 50% faster than AMD's current flagship single-GPU, the Radeon HD 5870. Take synthetic tests like Unigine into account and the GTX 580 can be up to twice as fast."
Re:Purely out of curiosity... (Score:3, Funny)
August 29th, 1997. At that point we lost all communication with Skynet.
Re:Good write ups, good card (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Purely out of curiosity... (Score:4, Funny)
August 29th, 1997. At that point we lost all communication with Skynet.
And Michael Jackson turned 39.
Coincidence? You decide.