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9th November 2010, 21:16 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined The answer we’ve decided is one of mild, but well earned praise. The GTX 580 is not the true next-generation successor to the GTX 480; it’s the GTX 480 having gone back in the womb for 7 months of development. Much like AMD, NVIDIA faced a situation where they were going to do a new product without a die shrink, and had limited options as a result. NVIDIA chose wisely, and came back with a card is both a decently faster card and a refined GTX 480 at the same time. With the GTX 480 we could recognize it as being the fastest single GPU card on the market, but only by recognizing the fact that it was hot and loud at the same time. For buyers the GTX 480 was a tradeoff product – sure it’s fast, but is it too hot/too loud for me? The GTX 580 requires no such tradeoff. We can never lose sight of the fact that it’s a high-end card and is going to be more power hungry, louder, and hotter than many other cards on the market, but it’s not the awkward card that the GTX 480 was. For these reasons our endorsement of the GTX 580 is much more straightforward, at least as long as we make it clear that GTX 580 is less an upgrade for GTX 480, and more a better upgrade for the GTX 285 and similar last-generation cards. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/n...orce-gtx-580/1
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10th November 2010, 06:00 | #2 |
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| Its power consumption, its price and temperatures in full load are disappointing. |
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