Friday, October 15th 2010
NVIDIA to Counter Radeon HD 6970 ''Cayman'' with GeForce GTX 580
AMD is undertaking its product development cycle at a breakneck pace, NVIDIA trailed it in the DirectX 11 and performance leadership race by months. This November, AMD will release the "Cayman" GPU, its newest high end GPU, the expectations are that it will outperform the NVIDIA GF100, that is a serious cause for concern, for the green team. It's back to its old tactics of talking about GPUs that haven't even taken shape, to try and water down AMD's launch. Enter, the GF110, NVIDIA's new high-end GPU under design, on which is based the GeForce GTX 580.
The new GPU is speculated to have 512 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory, with a TDP of close to that of the GeForce GTX 480. In the immediate future, there are prospects of a more realistic-sounding GF100b, which is basically GF100 with all its 512 CUDA cores enabled, while retaining its 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 64 TMUs, and slightly higher TDP than that of the GTX 480.
Sources:
3DCenter.org, PCGH
The new GPU is speculated to have 512 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 2 GB of memory, with a TDP of close to that of the GeForce GTX 480. In the immediate future, there are prospects of a more realistic-sounding GF100b, which is basically GF100 with all its 512 CUDA cores enabled, while retaining its 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface, 64 TMUs, and slightly higher TDP than that of the GTX 480.
195 Comments on NVIDIA to Counter Radeon HD 6970 ''Cayman'' with GeForce GTX 580
Still no flagship GTX4xx card. And they are already thinking about the GTX 580 :p
This was always the plan. hope this time these come with tripple fan coolers only. lol
/sarcasm
How on Earth can they chop the GTX480 then put out the original GTX480 as a GTX580? What a move of desperation!
Just when I was annoyed with AMD acting like nVidia with the rebranding/renaming/repricing/whatever, nVidia proved themselves truly unique! :p
512 cores gf100 is only 5.64% faster than gtx 480.
45% quicker at a proper res and with AA.
I reckon that with the latest drivers, you'd see the cards in the expected order of GTX 480, 5870 and the 4890 coming in last.
EDIT: BP edited her post with updated results (see her post 22) so it makes more sense. The link in my quote points to the original results.
Also about the 5970 - 6970, I imagined it would be a dual-gpu like its predecessor:slap:
I'll edit my post for a more realistic graph, sorry!
So 480 50% quicker at 1080p
www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/asus-matrix-5870_9.html#sect1