Friday, January 21st 2011
Palit Readies 3 GB GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card, Too
What happens in Gainward, stays in Palit. Gainward's parent company, Palit, is also readying a GeForce GTX 580 graphics card with 3 GB memory, like its subsidiary. Featuring a non-reference PCB and cooling assembly, Palit's latest card uses twelve 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips over a 384-bit wide memory interface to achieve 3072 MB (3 GB) in total. It features a more traditional-looking cooler compared to the Gainward GTX 580 Phantom; which makes use of two fans to cool a large aluminum fin array. Palit's card is clocked at 783 MHz (core), 1566 MHz (CUDA cores), and 1005/4020 MHz (memory actual/effective). Based on the 40 nm GF110 core, the GTX 580 features 512 CUDA cores, and is compliant with the latest in consumer graphics technologies.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
28 Comments on Palit Readies 3 GB GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card, Too
But game engines are moving over to OpenCL/CUDA where the code and data of the engine and game objects stays on the GPU.
This, for example, www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HaT23b-xc&feature=player_embedded#! is where games can be under OpenGL 4.x and 3GB.
With 3GB you are buying the ability to run 2011/2012 applications/games.
I would love to be able to run three monitors on a single 580, the best we can hope for is that Nvidia will support it on the 6xx cards
I saw some reviews showing AMD vs NV in 3 screen configs and AMD was not very good compaired, this was a while back and before the last batch of card hit, the 6950 and 6970 2gig cards did not exsist yet, so this might not be the case any more.
Or worst we are likely to be stuck with console ports still.
I would expect the 6950, 6970, 570, 580 and this new 580 all to do well with triple screen setups unless they are running at something like 7680x1600 or 7680x1440, i know 5760x1200 or 5760x1080 would put more strain on the card than my 5040x1050 setup but the fact a mid range card can game well across 3 monitors should prove that the current generation and future generations will handle triple screen setups with a single card pretty well.
But this card looks pretty solid
Because 6970 gives more performance at 1920*1080 and 2560*1600 than GTX 480....
But at lower resolutions the GTX 480 outperforms..
Meaning the GTX 580 requires extra memory to perform better at higher resolutions since its quite faster than a GTX 480...
See if you dont believe me:-
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6970/29.html