GeForce GTX 580 And GF110: The Way Nvidia Meant It To Be Played

its the beast(best)! no doubt nvidia is making a way to combat 6900's

The last bit of the article is the most important I think. Anyone who drops $500 on this card right now, before Cayman releases, should have their head examined. With two companies releasing so close together, it would be in a person's best interest to see what the other is bringing to the table before shelling out such a large chunk of change.

If the 6850 and 6870 have shown one thing.. they are much better then the last gen in many ways (power, noise and scaling) and the cayman is much more robust then the barts. So, before you start calling a winner here, wait and see. That is my advise.

Sound performance but the game here seems to be...double leap-frog. You can just release a product that competes with the competitors current offerings, you gotta compete with what he releases next... If AMD's next offering is significantly faster than it's current, then NVIDIA will still be playing catchup.

Kinda pointless article other then the fact that the 580 offers superb performance but until I see power and noise set in stone I honestly don't care.

A single GPU nearly outperforming a 5970 is quite a statement. Wonder if AMD has what it takes to answer this as the 6850 IMPO is pretty disappointing other then the price.

So it's basically what the 480 should have been. Fair enough, I'll wait for the 470 version of the gf110 and buy that.

The price right now for this card is way over $500 on newegg. For that price NVIDIA better be giving me a bj as well.

It'll certainly be interesting, even if i don't agree with NVIDIA playing catchup. The 480 had its flaws, but it still was the fastest single GPU around.

We'll see what the 69xx have to offer. NVIDIA releasing now puts somewhat of a time constraint on AMD though. If it takes them too long to get something out the door, even some people waiting now may just get the 580 for christmas.

Nvidia is embarrassed by the power draw of the gtx 580, haha. Improvement in performance but uses the same amt of power... still not a big enough improvement in efficiency, and no big leap in value either. AMD will wipe the floor with this card.

By the way, i know you guys decided to drop crysis, and i can understand that, but given that this is a high end card, maybe you should have considered it, since frankly anyone buying a card like this would probably want it for crysis more than anything else. A 6870 is more than enough for the others.

Looks to me that the 580 is somewhere between a 5870 and a 5970. Might have been more impressive if it was Q2 2010 and not Q4 2010.

With ATI's meat-and-gravy bits of the 6000 series on the launchpad, you'd be an idiot to buy one of these at this price.

On Civ 5 benchmark the 5970 has the worst 'Zoomed Out' fps. Strange?

i think 1 big inefficient chip trumps 2 efficient chips when it comes to performance taking into account the dual gpu scaling inefficiency.

where's the data for 580s temp and power consumption?

Take that ATI Fanboys!

kevin1212Nvidia is embarrassed by the power draw of the gtx 580, haha. Improvement in performance but uses the same amt of power... still not a big enough improvement in efficiency, and no big leap in value either. AMD will wipe the floor with this card. By the way, i know you guys decided to drop crysis, and i can understand that, but given that this is a high end card, maybe you should have considered it, since frankly anyone buying a card like this would probably want it for crysis more than anything else. A 6870 is more than enough for the others.

I'd say Metro more than fills Crysis's shoes.

And to the guy above who was dissapointed by the 6850, you're insane.

If the GTX 580 could talk it would probably say:
"There can be only one "
Fastest GPU on the planet.

Hey look, a MAINGEAR SHIFT!

Nice offering.
I wish nVidia had had this success initially.
But it is nice that they went back and patched things up.

Looking forward to a comparison between the 580 and the 6970!

how come other sites have power and heat representation?

just wait for Cayman.....but I want a card on 32 or 28 nm chip architecture, sow I' will wait even more.....

Power usage is in-effing-sane for higher end gpu's. What happened to the Go Green effort with pcs? :P

bring on the competition and bring the prices down!

Great article but I would like to have seen 6870 CF in all the benchmarks for a preview of 6970. The 6870 in CF is lower priced and requires the same power supply as a single 580. The 6870 benchmark review toms did shows CF for Aliens v/s Predator and the 6870 in CF will even beat the 5970 and own the 580GTX.
Compare them for yourself but note the second benchmark tests or different resolutions. 1920X1080 v/s 1920X1200.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-580-gf110-geforce-gtx-480,2781-8.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6870-radeon-hd-6850-barts,2776-20.html

rpgplayerwhich is precisely the reason that import cars are so popular right???bottom line if i can find something that offers similar performance for less "cost of ownership" i'd go for it anyday.

We are not talking about similar performance here.

Really bad to not use 6870 crossfire instead of the 5870's.