Nvidia Briefly Makes Mention of Secret GTX 580

Gawd I hope they finally make it dual core...

512 CUDA cores? Not much of a jump in the number of cores for a new high end piece. Is there any info on a change in the architecture over the GTX480?

boooooooooooooooooooo

Can only bet one thing : It will be pricy.

So it's speculated to be a full 512-core 400-series / Fermi-based GPU, yet it's going to get an entirely new family numbering scheme? Why? Calling it something like the GTX 480+, 485 or 490 wouldn't work?

I don't see why a fully-enabled Fermi-based GPU deserves a number series all to itself unless getting chips with 512 working cores really is that big an accomplishment. Considering the hardships NVIDIA originally had with GF100 production, maybe it is.

This news is outdated from a week ago. Seriously. I don't see why Tom's Hardware just rip off of other companies; it's better than being outdated.

Chances are it's just a dual Fermi gpu card with two 470 or 480 chips on one board - something to release when ATI announce their big guns next month.

The new GTX 580 will have 5000 CUDA cores, create 100 watt of power per minute, cool down the computer with it's quiet and col0.d fan, integrates GeForce, Quadro and Tesla together and be worth only $20 It will create Autostereoscopic 3D images on your monitor without 3D glasses or 120 Hz, it makes processors it's b**ch and best of all: it runs 100 times faster than the GTX 480, perform 50 times better than the Quadro 6000 and calculate 1000 times faster than the Tesla C2070.

Nah, jk. It will consume a gajillion watts of power, melt the Earth, require Tri-SLI for support of 1 monitor and cost all of the world's money.

Well, one or the other.

Like anyone though they would not have a new high end card. Like anyone thought it wouldnt be called the GTX 580. How about some actual specs.

How so if it's a single chip called the GF110?

Rebranding? Again? I'd be so shocked!

And how is rebranding if it's a different chip?

This just comes across a stunt to get peoples attention now that AMD has something new out. I do find it rather odd that they are incrementing it from 400 numbering to 500 if it is indeed only a refined Fermi instead of something truly new. But this is Nvidia we are talking about after all.

Yeah next thing you know they will make the GTX 580 a midrange card to dupe unsuspecting buyers. You know like AMD did with the 6870...

If they've really been trying, then hopefully the GF110 will be based on the GF104 and wind up with 576 cuda cores in 12x48.

If it's just a 'full' GF100 it likely won't make a splash at all.

LOL!!

Never said I agree with what AMD did either. The numbering system on the Radeon 6850/6870 is rather stupid, considering how they had been numbering their cards in the previous generations, but the performance for the prices should speak louder then any numbering system. Anyway, It just seems rather uncanny this got "leaked" now of all times, is all I was getting at.

i hope it doesnt incinerate itself from constant use

Antilles will make the gtx 580 it's bitch.

You're naming it wrong!

In my humble opinion, Nvidia intentionally planted that temporary information online. They don't have anything to say, but they want people to start talking about what they don't have to say. Let's not forget that AMD is launching the 6900 series next month.

This is just marketing 101, just a tactic. THey must wave something at their customers while their product is still in the lab in the egg cooking test.

Until Nvidia talks about it openly and sets a launch timeframe, I'm inclined to look back at Nvidia's not very ethical tactics and just wait for them to talk.

The truth is that, after six months, Nvidia is, to this day, unable to refine and bring to market the fully fledged, 512 cores GPU they designed for the GTX 480 (a GTX 480 Ultra anyone?) This may have the economics behind it, but it doesn't sound right from a technological prowess viewpoint they like so much to brag about.

nVidia should be investigated for unlawful work conditions, because thats the only way they could have come up with a new generation of Fermi in 6 months.

...old news.

I hope it's true, perhaps they've returned to the 6 month development cycle that made them so successful in the past.

It will be extra interesting to see nvidia and ati release products at the same time, but neither company has released anything other than relatively minor increments

I think its dead now...

It's probably not the case here, but still, one could fake such an image using MS Paint. My point is: image means absolutely nothing.

Rofl the no mention of every ones faverite imagnary gtx 485

Yay! Cheaper gtx480/460.

Meh, don't really care anymore. Over the past year I've lost a lot of respect for them. The icing on the cake is charging people $40 to unlock their card's built in ability to work with 3D TVs. I don't have or particularly want a 3D TV, but the card can already do it, it should just work at the driver level. It's like Intel charging people to unlock tucked away cores on their processors.

Yes, true, the common joke of "The GTX is just SO DAMN HOT!" will carry over to the 580 if it is as / more hot / power hungry. But perhaps being GF110 they solved the heat issues, perhaps not, but wait with the jokes until we actually see some numbers. It's interesting to note that the early reports regarding the Radeon 6970 indicate a power requirement over 225 W. If it ends up being a hot / power hungry beast, will these kind of jokes persist?




"Rebranding" is taking an old card and changing the name, and nothing else. This card has a different number of cores, making it a different card. Not rebranded.

And the rummors begin again!
17 more months of this and we should have a chip!