NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 is very very good

NVIDIA just released their latest video card.
This card uses redesigned GF 100 chip that used on GTX 480, the new GF 110 GPU. NVIDIA had listened to people who complain about super power hungry and very hot temperature in their GTX 480.
GeForce GTX 580 will be the next NVIDIA flagship on high end video cards.

On performance, there is an improvement of 20% to GTX 480, makes it the fastest single GPU card in the planet (12/11/2010). In some DirectX 11 games, it even beats AMD dual GPU card HD 5970.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Specification

	Graphics Card	GTX 580
Processing Units	Graphics Processing Clusters	4
	Streaming Multiprocessors	16
	CUDA Cores	512
	Texture Units	64
	ROP Units	48
Clock Speeds	Graphics Clock (Fixed Function Units)	772 MHz
	Processor Clock (CUDA Cores)	1544 MHz
	Memory Clock (Clock rate / Data rate)	2008 MHz
Memory	L2 Cache Size	768KB
	Total Video Memory	1536 MB GDDR5
	Memory Interface	384-bit
	Total Memory Bandwidth	192.4 GB/s
Fillrate	Texture Filtering Rate (Bilinear)	49.4 GigaTexels/sec
Physical & Thermal	Fabrication Process	40 nm
	Transistor Count	3 Billion
	Connectors	2 x Dual-Link DVI-I 1 x Mini HDMI
	Form Factor	Dual Slot
	Power Connectors	1×6 pin and 1x 8 pin
	Recommended Power Supply	600 Watts
	Thermal Design Power (TDP)1	244 Watts
	Thermal Threshold	97 C

I’ll add a benchmark test performance summary for reference. This test taken from techpowerup.com


We can conclude that GTX 580 is an awesome product by NVIDIA.

Pros:

• Fastest Single GPU card on the planet
• High performance
• Lower Noise
• Lower Heat
• Vapor Chamber Cooling
• PhysX
• Tri-SLI capabilities
• Surround
• 3D Surround

Cons:

• Pricing
• Still not as power efficient as AMD’s designs