Company: nVIDIA
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: November 9th, 2010

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NVIDIA's FERMI architecture was introduced in late 2009, as NVIDIA began to generate excitement and interest in their new DirectX 11 product line. NVIDIA missed the important Microsoft Windows 7 launch and Christmas sales bubble targets but, beginning in April 2010, ultimately delivered four GPUs in seven months. The Fermi architecture is the basis for new products in the GeForce, Quadro and Tesla product lines, with GeForce the most interesting to us as it's the consumer, desktop line. Currently Fermi GPUs power seven products, covering the entry level market with the GeForce GT 430, the mainstream gamer and performance enthusiast market with the GTS 450 and GTX 460 series, and finally the high end enthusiast and ultra enthusiast market with the GTX 465, GTX 470 and GTX 480. Now, seven months after Fermi graphics cards hit the stores, we get our first look at Nvidia's GTX 580.
![]() NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 |
Specifications
$499 SEP
3Bn Transistor 40nm GF110 core
512 CUDA Cores
16 Streaming Multi-Processors (SM) in 4 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPC)
772MHz Core clock / 1544MHz Shader Clock
1536MB GDDR5 RAM at 1002MHz / 4Gbps QDR
384-bit Memory Interface with 192.4GB/sec Bandwidth
2 Dual-Link DVI outputs + 1 mini-HDMI 1.4a output (max two active at a time)
Dual-Height with PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface, 10.5" Long
Single PCI-E 6pin plus Single PCI-E 8pin power connectors required, 600W PSU recommended
244W Max Board Power

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