Saturday, September 24th 2011
EVGA GTX 580 Classified + watercooling Doubles Core Clock Speed!
The EVGA GTX 580 Classified 3072MB, previously announced on TechPowerUp, is now available to buy according to this forum post by an EVGA product manager - in limited quantities, of course. According to Gaming Blend, this card can amazingly reach a doubled 1.6GHz core clock when overclocked using waterblocks - GTX 590 eat your heart out! This card also has custom designed VRMs to take all the extra power that the card will use, which means that they won't squeal when the card is overclocked hard and also when running intensive applications such as Folding@Home.
UPDATE: Turns out that 1.6GHz overclock was actually achieved using LN2, not water. To confirm it, click the EVGA promo link after the jump and see the extreme cooling section video, or just skip directly to the YouTube video here.
The design comes courtesy of Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido and Illya "TiN" Tsemenko who wanted a powerful card without the limitations of SLI, saying:
EVGA product page
It's currently in stock at NewEgg for $599.99
Basic specs:
Performance
NVIDIA GTX 580
512 CUDA Cores
855 MHz GPU
1710MHz Shader Clock
Memory
3072 MB, 384 bit GDDR5
4212 MHz (effective)
202.1 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, EVBot
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh
240Hz Max Refresh Rate
2048x1536 Max Analog
2560x1600 Max Digital
Product Warranty
This product comes with a Limited Lifetime warranty with registration within 30 days of purchase.
UPDATE: Turns out that 1.6GHz overclock was actually achieved using LN2, not water. To confirm it, click the EVGA promo link after the jump and see the extreme cooling section video, or just skip directly to the YouTube video here.
While competitors spend time adding dual GPUs to cards that already support SLI, increasing them to 3 slots, crippling them with only 1.5GB of memory, and/or quadrupling the price, we wanted to take a different approach. One that made sense for both gamers and enthusiasts…"With the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified, we focused on the key elements that the GPU and Memory need when overclocking. Power, stability, noise ripple reduction and extreme OC mode without limits. The design was created with overclocking in mindEVGA promo page
EVGA product page
It's currently in stock at NewEgg for $599.99
Basic specs:
Performance
NVIDIA GTX 580
512 CUDA Cores
855 MHz GPU
1710MHz Shader Clock
Memory
3072 MB, 384 bit GDDR5
4212 MHz (effective)
202.1 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, EVBot
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh
240Hz Max Refresh Rate
2048x1536 Max Analog
2560x1600 Max Digital
Product Warranty
This product comes with a Limited Lifetime warranty with registration within 30 days of purchase.
51 Comments on EVGA GTX 580 Classified + watercooling Doubles Core Clock Speed!
Oh and this is post 5000 and I can now have my custom title - I finally got there! :rockout:
Halfway to five figures mate. I don't know what's more impressive - the post count or the card :rolleyes:
And congratulations with your title Qubit! :D
OMG can you imagine how much power four of these babies in quad SLI at 1.6GHz must consume! :eek: I'm not sure if there's a PSU beefy enough to power them. Heck, would there be enough power from a standard wall socket, even? I dunno.Thanks dude. :cool: :toast::toast:
You know how this could be definitively verified, don't you. Yeah, you know what I'm gonna say... wait for it... give it to W1zzard to test. Now wouldn't that be awesome? :rockout: Who knows, perhaps he can even hit 2GHz with that thing?! :eek:
In fact, the Gaming Blend article states that it was achieved, but doesn't clarify who exactly achieved it and doesn't supply all the necessary details surrounding this achievement, which is odd.
I think you interpreted the article wrong, qubit. ;)
This video is the proof using LN2. Screen cap of GPU-Z shows insane GPU Core clock of 1.6 GHz.
Lets see a 580 do that..........Oh wait, it cant. Needz moar powah, then due to die stress it needs more replacements.
But did you see how many PSU's they used - FOUR! :eek:
the card aint looks like enthusiast card, looks plain
why dont they design like this