Friday, January 21st 2011
Gainward Readies GeForce GTX 580 Phantom 3 GB Graphics Card
Last month, Gainward introduced its GeForce GTX 570 Phantom, which won quite some appreciation among readers for its radical design. The company decided to extend it to the GeForce GTX 580, too, since it's based on the same GF110 silicon. The only major change is that 2 Gbit memory chips are used, yielding a total memory of 3072 MB (3 GB). The memory is spread across 12 2 Gbit memory chips across a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. Clock speeds stick to NVIDIA reference: 783/1566/4020 MHz (core/CUDA cores/memory effective). The GTX 580 packs 512 CUDA cores.
The cooler makes use of a black aluminum fin array, to which heat is fed by six heat pipes. Instead of fans on its obverse side blowing air onto the PCB, there are three fans on its reverse side, drawing air from the aluminum fin array, and onto the PCB. The result is a better-looking product. Display outputs include two DVI, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort. Gainward will release its 3 GB GTX 580 Phantom graphics card soon, at a premium over the reference design.
The cooler makes use of a black aluminum fin array, to which heat is fed by six heat pipes. Instead of fans on its obverse side blowing air onto the PCB, there are three fans on its reverse side, drawing air from the aluminum fin array, and onto the PCB. The result is a better-looking product. Display outputs include two DVI, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort. Gainward will release its 3 GB GTX 580 Phantom graphics card soon, at a premium over the reference design.
33 Comments on Gainward Readies GeForce GTX 580 Phantom 3 GB Graphics Card
WeuW!
Been thinking of an ontopic response, but the next few hours i think i wont come up with any. Too flabbered.
This card is similar in frequency to the company's GTX 580 GOOD Edition.
And it looks amazing too.
EDIT: would be nice if somehow they would manage to develop a cooling design with the air being blown out of the case.
I do wonder what effect it would have when using three 2560x1600, 2560x1440, 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 monitors, i doubt there would be much difference with three 1680x1050 ones though.
really I feel like Nvidia is catering for the people with more money than brains when it comes to a box with 3GB GDDR5! written on it, as oppose to fans that are pissed off about 6970's in CFX @ Eyefinity resolutions competing well vs GTX580's