Yesterday we took a look at the latest nVidia card, the GTX580.
Unquestionably this fixed a lot of the issues that we all had with the GTX480, primarily the heat and noise but also the cut down performance.
We were left with the overriding impression of the decimating horsepower available at our fingertips and how nVidia have regained the top spot as the graphics card of choice.
One thing though is missing. If one card is good, then two cards must surely be great. We couldn't resist finding out and so a quick phone call to ASUS and we had two reference GTX580s on hand, ready to see if we have enough rendering performance to change the rotation of the Earth.
Technical Specifications
The card is a reference design again and so is almost identical to the Zotac from yesterday. The main differences are the tiny increase in stock core speed, and the inclusion of the always excellent ASUS Voltage Tweak BIOS.
| Model | ENGTX580/2DI/1536MD5 |
| Graphics engine | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX580 |
| Bus standard | PCI Express® 2.0 |
| Video memory | 1536MB GDDR5 |
| Engine clock | 782 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 512 |
| Memory clock | 4008MHz (1002MHz GDDR5) |
| Memory interface | 384-bit |
| DVI max resolution | 2560 x 1600 |
| D-Sub max resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| DVI output | DVI-I x1 DVI-D x1 |
| HDCP compliant | Yes |
| HDMI output | x1 |
| Accessory Bundled | Mini HDMI-to-HDMI adaptor x1 8-pin to 6-pin Power Cable x1 |
| Software Bundled | ASUS utilities and driver |
The box is the easily recognisable ASUS design. RPG-style man on horseback, lots of big logos, but everything clear and easy to see.Internal packaging follows the standard ASUS formula of the incredibly sturdy black box with the gold ASUS logo we're all used to, as well as the standard set of accessories.The cards sport the same reference cooler that the we looked at with the Zotac. The main difference here is the stealthy look of the ASUS card. Wholly black but with a large white ASUS logo, it clearly is ready to be "blinged" when the higher performance variants are released.Following the reference design we saw yesterday we have the twin DVI and mini HDMI, along with 8 and 6pin PCIe power connectors.
from:overclock3d.net
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