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GTX 580 Review

GJ02 said:
worthless, uncalled for, non helpful insults
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Wouldn't happen if people were sensible and took it for what it is.
The 580's the Fermi conception, 14 months late.
Yes, it's the fastest single GPU, but so was the 480, by launching this now, they've let AMD spend a little more time (If they so choose to).


And the whole "Yes when overclocked" is a moot point.
I'm running my cards stock ;o.

And the difference is a fair bit, the 6870's can be overclocked too.
 
At stock it's quite a fair bit faster, crossfire scaling is the important thing, not raw spec's, the 5970's scaling is pretty poor in comparison to SLI, and the new improved scaling of the 6XXX series.

And if people have the money, they'll get it.
 
drunkenmaster said:
As for overclocking, been saying for days that if the 580gtx doesn't overclock better all you get is 6.5% more shaders, which likely won't give you much more than 4-6.5% more performance depending on the game. Now this card can't overclock properly, is limited and so is 5% faster. Epic failure for a card that was launched 3 times within 14 months.
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Read about this power throttle so as not to exceed the PCIE spec.
Seems to me that Nvidia have some ulterior motive and in essence, throttling is the only way they were able to impliment 512 cuda cores and hence get this card into production.

In reality, will this 300W throttle really affect the cards ability to overclock because if so, seems like Nvidia may have scored an own goal:confused:
 
Martini1991 said:
At stock it's quite a fair bit faster, crossfire scaling is the important thing, not raw spec's, the 5970's scaling is pretty poor in comparison to SLI, and the new improved scaling of the 6XXX series.

And if people have the money, they'll get it.
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Very good point.

But to counter your good point i will say...

Cat 10.10 Actually improved 5870 scailing a lot :)

stulid said:
you starting to back track now!!!! lol

try eating some reviews - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_6870_CrossFire/10.html

the crosssfire 6870 destroys a 5970 at high resolutions.
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Cat 10.7 doesnt count so the review is worthless
 
vorticalspace said:
Read about this power throttle so as not to exceed the PCIE spec.
Seems to me that Nvidia have some ulterior motive and in essence, throttling is the only way they were able to impliment 512 cuda cores and hence get this card into production.

In reality, will this 300W throttle really affect the cards ability to overclock because if so, seems like Nvidia may have scored an own goal:confused:
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I was thinking this.

mabey the Core cant handle more then 300W?

Such a shame tho.. as if it was some hoe unlocked and put on DI or LNI It would ROCK!
 
Well no they are not. But a 5970 with EK block is £550.

2x 480GTX with blocks come to £900-£100.

just a lot of money for not much :/

Prices are based on new purchases.

Secondhand prices are a lot lower :D

ANYWAY I WILL NO LONGER TALK ABOUT ATI>>> Nvidia 580GTX is a nice card, Didnt think they could get it out ont ime or actually at all...
Well done nvidia for makeing a one more slightly useless card
 
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