NVIDIA Launches New Flagship Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 580 Reviewed

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15 points·MojoKid··9 comments

Forgetting all of the things this card can do, just the idea of 192.4GB/sec of memory bandwidth is enough to boggle my mind. For reference, the Voodoo 2, top of the pack 12 years ago, offered just 2.2GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

Looks like a good room heater. 244W TDP! tl;dr: Outperforms other graphics cards in most benchmarks. The dual core ATI HD something is ahead in some cases though.

But if you look at their measured power draw, it actually takes less power than the 480 (which has a TDP of 220W or something).

When are video cards going to come with their own external power supplies? It's crazy to buy 800+ watt power supplies for a few hundred dollars when the video card manufacturers could include their own power transformer in the box.

Reminds me of the last of the Voodoo cards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5#Models

Graphics cards are about to hit a wall, just like CPUs did a few years ago.

Power consumption is so high they're almost at a dead end. They won't be able to increase performance any more.

They'll need to flip to 22nm from 40nm technology to buy some more time. They also have the option of creating a larger number of slower running shaders.

Combine this with a nice functional language like F# and you're ready to do some serious processing.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/satnam_singh/archive/2010/10/14/f-bl...

While it's impressive to see how well the new GeForce does against AMD's latest 5870 and 6870 cards, word is AMD has another top end GPU set to release this quarter. Should get interesting!

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