NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Expected to be 20% Faster than GeForce GTX 480
We heard rumors and saw some information about NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 video card last month during the GPU Tech Conference in San Jose. Last month NVIDIA let a few international press members go to the NVIDIA labs and get some hands on time with the new GPU. We weren’t invited to that little demo session for some reason, but the rumors about the upcoming GF110 silicon is starting to become rampant. Rumor has it that this video card is poised for at least a paper-launch by end of November or early December. Sources in the video card industry say that the GeForce GTX 580 is expected to be 20% faster than the existing GeForce GTX 480. Remember that the GF100 was supposed to have 512 cores, but shipped with only 480 enabled due to heat and yield issues at TSMC? Rumor has it that NVIDIA tweaked the core a bit and made it more efficient and enabled all of the cores. Having those cores enabled only boosts the overall core count by roughly 7%, so they have also done some other tweaks if this rumor is true. We can always speculate as to what it will be, since we aren’t under NDA and have not been briefed by NVIDIA on this card.
Nvidia is preparing to launch its GF110-based GeForce GTX 580 by the end of November or early December 2010 with performance 20% faster than its current GeForce GTX 480, according to sources from graphics card makers. After GF110, Nvidia is also set to gradually unveil its GF112, GF114 and GF119 in 2011 with market positions similar to its GF104, GF106 and GF108, respectively. The company is also preparing to announce 28nm Kepler GPUs by the end of 2011 and is currently developing Maxwell as Kepler’s successor.
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