The newly released NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580 is the world’s fastest DirectX 11 GPU. With screaming performance and an innovative new thermal design, GeForce GTX 580 rips through the latest games while running quieter than the previous generation.

Somewhat unexpected this soon, but so very welcome, the successor to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (GF100) is making its debut. It also uses the NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture , one of the most heatedly debated GPU architectures in current time.Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 has an improved and revised GF100 core now called GF110.

GeForce GTX 580 delivers massive DirectX 11 tessellation performance so you can crank-up the gaming realism with incredibly detailed environments and characters.

Moreover,Harness the graphics power of GTX 580 in SLI to experience panoramic gaming across three screens with NVIDIA Surround technology.

At it is most basic, the GTX 580 uses a full-enabled GF100 core with additional rendering and efficiency features walking hand in hand with some transistor rationalization on a microarchitectural level. Considering the outgoing GTX 480’s raw and unadulterated horsepower along with the possibilities of the GF110, not many will likely complain about these improvements necessitating a change in product family names. Especially when you consider the GTX 580 is only the beginning of NVIDIA’s top to bottom refresh.

Specifications:

• Processing Cores : 512
• Core Clock : 772MHz
• Memory Clock: 1000MHz
• Memory Interface: 384-bit
• Memory Type: 1.5GB GDDR5
• Fabrication Process: 40nm
• Price Tag: $500 approx

Conclusion:

The GTX 580 1.5GB is a very different card to the GTX 480 1.5GB. The tweaks and improvements of the new GF110 GPU have not only increased performance by a much more meaningful degree, but also reduced heat, power consumption and noise.Hence the major problems of GTX 480 seem no more in it.

Performance is simply stellar for a single-GPU card, and the much improved vapour chamber cooler delivers capable, quiet cooling – it’ll take a great third-party cooler to actually improve on this reference cooler.

The price tag is also acceptable.Nevertheless, the GTX 580 1.5GB is a seriously impressive card that justifies its price. It offers great performance that’s a meaningful step up from the previous generation, plus a cooler you can live with and none of the drawbacks of a multi-GPU setup.But lets wait and see if ATI can change our minds keeping the price and performance in mind.