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GTX580 specs and benchmarks

ToxicTBag said:
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Battle of the Titans here - I wonder which device is actaully doing the toasting. :o

The problem for the GTX480 was when it come out it wasn't much faster then the Hd5870 but cost £120 more and IMO that's what got up a lot of peoples noses. The heat and noise issues are there but that was just something extra to bash Nvidia with the fact was the 480 was poor value for money. Since then drivers are better and the price has come down from ludicrous to expensive levels and as a result it found its place in the market (between a Hd5870 and HD5970).
 
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hopefully they will be cheaper then that not planing spend more then 320 £ on gpu. fingers crossed maybe 6970 will be in that margin
 
cainer said:
with all the talk of new cards (amd6970/nv580) lots of people are getting twitchy and want to get the latest fastest single GPU...
but for what??
none of the new cards are offering ground breaking technology, none are offering great breakthroughs in performance , so whats going on here??
tbh it seems to me this generation (6970/580) is BS
as title... wait for some reliable reviews to see just how far ahead these cards are, a mild increases in performance isnt worth selling your old card at a loss just to buy one of these at a premium.
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We do it because we love new toys, the end :)
 
"Although we're very proud of the GTX 480," NVIDIA President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said, "the 400 series is merely a tease for what Fermi can really accomplish. When we release the 500 series later this year, I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised."
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Our leader speaks :p
 
straxusii said:
We do it because we love new toys, the end :)
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i do too... have done for years.. i paid £320 for a gforce2 in 2001, and i paid £400 for an x800xt PE in 2004, paid £660 for CF5870 in 2010... all of these upgrades wer massive in improved performance.
if your current card cant handle what youy play then fair enough.. but if your buying a new card just to come on here and post benchmarks then ur a sad tard.. go play games with it. its what its ment for!
 
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If its only £429 I will buy one immediately & put my silent GTX480 in my 2nd PC :D

I suspect it will be more like £450 ish maybe £475-500. Look at the 5970 price for clues what the high end part is. Nvidia may even go for £500-550 would not surprise me & whatever the price it will sell out in a few days I can assure you ;)
 
Im quite glad that there is all this hype and that Nvidia are pushing a card release at the same time as AMD (the way it should be) because I can tell you know, before this is said and done, one of the two are going to get some cash from me in the not so distant future....
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Our leader speaks :p
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Hmm, I'd be tempted to say, surely he can't be talking up what is only very marginally better than an overclocked 480gtx, but then, this is a guy who showed a woodscrew Fermi and proclaimed it would be in stores in weeks. He's a delusional moron 100% happy to lie through his teeth.

Thats the thing, a normal sane person talking up a new product like it was the second coming and I'd pay attention and think something special is going to happen, AMD say its the next R300 and I believe them(or I would, I haven't seen the actual quote, it might be BS from somewhere else).

Dear Leader(or Jobs) says something and I while my natural instinct is "they think its fantastic, it should be good" my head says, two people born into the PR industry have a loose grip on reality, are compulsive liars and probably have trouble remembering what year it is.
 
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