Monday, November 8th 2010
GeForce GTX 580 Cooling Solution Detailed to Public
NVIDIA is just a couple of days away from releasing the GeForce GTX 580, the company's trump card which came literally out of nowhere, compared to AMD's Northern Island GPUs, which were talked about for months. At the PDXLAN 16.5 event, NVIDIA showed off some slides that are most relevant to gamers, notably the thermal and acoustic characteristics of the reference design thermal solution. The latest thermal solution does look a lot more compact compared to that of the GTX 480, especially the lack of that hot-plate and heat pipes sticking out is notable.
The new cooling solution relies on vapor-chamber technology to convey heat to the aluminum fins, instead of heat pipes. The fan features a more refined adaptive fan profile. Combined with a more power optimized GPU, the new thermal solution is said to be more efficient and quiet compared to even that of the GeForce GTX 285.
Source:
Legit Reviews
The new cooling solution relies on vapor-chamber technology to convey heat to the aluminum fins, instead of heat pipes. The fan features a more refined adaptive fan profile. Combined with a more power optimized GPU, the new thermal solution is said to be more efficient and quiet compared to even that of the GeForce GTX 285.
40 Comments on GeForce GTX 580 Cooling Solution Detailed to Public
Even so, nV's best seller after 460 will probably the 460 SE (the 6/8 clusters enabled GF104).
Fusion, and sandy bridge is comming, and it will hit nvidia hard.
Unless nvidia can keep themself real and really good in the server market, and will provide good technologies.
But they will become smaller in terms of volume, but maybe not profits.
Nvidia's move have been smart, but i dont know if its enough.
fusion is really fast, faster than you might expect, and i've heard sandy is also quite impressing, to be intel we're talking about.
Good gtx580 comes, cause 6970 and 6990 will be quite powerfull, and 580 will bring prices down hopefully.
my 5850 still cost more now than it did release day, and the 2 following months after release.
www.yoyotech.co.uk/item-detail.php?products_id=4370723
Still cheaper than a 5970, but... it's also £60+ more than what they sell GTX 480 cards for...
rather go with a 5870 at 250£
6970 will probably be 300 quid, if not more.
And since lots of fins are there the vapour cools down back into a liquid and wicks back to the start where it happens again.
btw i hope its not just fully enabled GTX 480,
i can't wait to see the benches but shame nvdia won't provide TPU a card,
It's quite an old discovery the ole vapour cooling.
@Necrofire here's the patent to a particular type of flat heatpipe
www.freepatentsonline.com/6679318.html
get to see a cut away diagram.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCPMHIDpT88&feature=player_embedded
I'd use thermoelectric cooling if I were a GPU/CPU manufacturer.
its really great on tesselation, but the others. (vapor chamber, "first" blackops trailer), meh..
especially when he tell people to cheer up, i knew something was wrong..