nvidia launches gtx580 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png nvidia launches gtx580 | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 GTX580 water cooled units ready to ship in November https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gtx580-water-cooled-units-ready-to-ship-in-november/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/gtx580-water-cooled-units-ready-to-ship-in-november/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:36:13 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=21671 To honour the launch of nVidia's 512 stream GTX580, KitGuru has adopted a multi-stream approach to keeping you up to date on all of the information you need to know ahead of next week's launch. We have already processed, shaded, tessellated and output 3 stunning little pixels of need-to-know info this morning and, as the …

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To honour the launch of nVidia's 512 stream GTX580, KitGuru has adopted a multi-stream approach to keeping you up to date on all of the information you need to know ahead of next week's launch. We have already processed, shaded, tessellated and output 3 stunning little pixels of need-to-know info this morning and, as the clock indicates lunchtime in the UK, we have another for you!

Our sources in the Far East have indicated that the new chip will draw at least 35w more than the older Fermi. Naturally, you would expect that with an additional 32 processing units needing power. Running at full pelt with FurMark is likely to generate a significant amount of heat. The question becomes. what is the best way to deal with that heat?

With the launch of the Gigabyte SOC range, we saw that specialist BIOSes could be written for Fermi that would allow the core voltage to rise to around 1.6v!

Now we would NEVER recommend anything like that, but it does show one thing.

With proper cooling the Fermi core is capable of taking a substantial amount of load.

Enter water cooling.

You're gonna need to be liquid in the bank account department if you want to cool nVidia GTX580 with water

Simularities between the GTX480 and GTX580 designs means that we will be seeing water cooled units on the market very soon after the initial launch. While these will be more expensive than the regular, air-cooled versions, you can expect to see Fermi taken to the max with liquid cooling.

Certainly we expect to see water cooled GTX580 cards hitting well over 20% faster than the GTX480.

Water cooled GTX580 cards could be hitting over the 25,000 market in 3DMark Vantage.

KitGuru says: With each of these new options, nVidia is moving the goal posts for Radeon HD 6970. November is looking like the right month for fireworks!

Give us a rocket below.

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nVidia GTX580 launch next week – real or paper? https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/nvidia-gtx580-launch-next-week-real-or-paper/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/nvidia-gtx580-launch-next-week-real-or-paper/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:40:32 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=21624 Each generation of graphic card delivers more than the last. Frame rates are faster, colours clearer and everything is just a little more cinematographic than it was before. But what constitutes a hard launch? Do you need to have product in the market? If so, how much? KitGuru investigates. At launch, AMD offered the Radeon …

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Each generation of graphic card delivers more than the last. Frame rates are faster, colours clearer and everything is just a little more cinematographic than it was before. But what constitutes a hard launch? Do you need to have product in the market? If so, how much? KitGuru investigates.

At launch, AMD offered the Radeon HD 6850 at just £133 inc vat. That was for early birds who ordered the XFX version from Scan. Less than an hour later, not to be out done, eBuyer had the Sapphire version at £132. At some point that morning, there was no stock left and you could not find a 6850 for less than about £155. But they were still in the market, albeit more expensively.

So how many cards does nVidia or AMD need to produce to be called a real launch?

Hands up if you prefer your launch nice and hard

The world breaks into EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa – sometime with India), APAC (Asia Pacific) and America (USA with Canada and LAR (Latin American Region)).

Each of these 3 regions will have big markets and small ones. For Europe, we are talking about territories like UK, France, Germany, Nordics etc.

Those countries each have active resellers – the major stores that you see most in the news and on Google etc. Here in the UK, we're talking about companies like Dabs, eBuyer, Overclockers, Scan and YOYOTech.

To be considered a real or ‘hard' launch, a manufacturer needs to have some stock in each of the major resellers. For example, in the UK, that might mean 5 cards dropped into each of these 5 resellers. That's 25 cards for the UK. Another 25 for 4-6 other territories in EMEA, 100 for America and the same for APAC.

If nVidia can put around 350 cards into the market in time for the launch of the GTX580 next week, then KitGuru believes it would have done enough to call it a real launch.

Naturally, you'd expect a strong follow-up of deliveries in the weeks immediately after the launch, but a lot of that will be dictated by how many issues TSMC experiences in making the full, 512 stream processor Fermi.

These new cards will offer 384 less cores than a Quadro Plex 7000, but it will be significantly cheaper.

KitGuru says: We will be revealing more GTX580 secrets shortly. But, for now, we reckon the new card will just scrape past KitGuru's requirement for a hard launch.

Comment below on whether you think we're measuring this correctly.

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