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
Depends a lot on the circumstance I'd expect.
Idle consumption is similar in both cases and it's only when on full load when a GTX470 consumes so much more, full load meaning Furmark type of full load and not Crysis type of full load.
My power usage varys a lot from week to week depending on settings and usage. even more so as sometimes i push everything to the max and then forget i have once in windows so cause much higher idle draw than it should be.
problem solved!
If he can already pay want he has now, but doesn't want to pay extra by going with GF100, then i think that's a smart decision to pick something with less power consumption for the sake of saving money.
Work more, ask for a raise, or find a new job? You make it sound so easy, might as well have him rub a lamp and ask the genie for a billion dollars.
We are most likely talking about unemployed or college kids that cannot afford a decent computer if built from parts on the cheap. Hell BST's allow you to get a good amount of bang per $(or respective currency). ;)
The room without a window part sounds kind of funny though. :laugh:
I have to laugh at the get proper cooling thing, i live in the uk it really does not get hot enough to need any form of cooling... unless you count crazy people locking themselfs in tiny rooms with electronics.
Really i would assume many people here would agree, if your power bill is already $2100 a year you dont really want to pay even more when you could be using that money for other more fun things :DI think i'm quite happy with my current job that gives me more freedom than most people i have ever met and more money than every last one of my friends, also no boss to ask for a rasie :p
nvida needs to make another 8800 as in card that thrashes anything by amd for people to stop complaning, most people loved nvidia during the 8800 time... well exect die hard ati fanboys lol
People can criticize Fermi in many regards, but it gets taken to far when a thread on a new line up of cards, that aren't even officially announced yet, hell we don't really even know if it's gonna be called the ''580'' for sure, and yet people still complain and whine over speculative rumors.
I just hope AMD and Nvidia bring some awesome cards to the market and at some decent prices, thats all i want..:cool:
I'm with you on wanting both companys to bring some awesome and well priced cards too the market, i really think the 28nm chips is were we will see something special from both companys, i feel like anything new before then is just to kind of fill the gap untill the 28nm chips can be made.
*edit*
red machine is right, 2 years is a little over the top, they fixed some of the problems when making the gf104 so not even a year for some problems then by late next year they will be using 28nm chips.
Incidentally, I have inadvertently bumped the thread again :eek:
This time i'm interested in what nvidia is working on but im almost sure that only 460 sli is the only nvidia option for me so once the 5970 is out i will pull the trigger on whatever i feel suits me best.