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To properly bring you this review, we are using our reference Diamond HD 5870 (850/1200 MHz) as well as our reference stock-clocked AMD HD 6870 (900/1050 MHz) which we put through their paces this week with the very latest WHQL drivers – Catalyst 10-10.
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AMD is aggressively preparing for Nvidia’s new Tank in much the same way that Nvidia met AMD’s new HD 68×0 series – with sharp price drops on their current cards as both companies bring out refreshed product lines each on the 40 nm process. So we need to answer the question: Is it worth the $150 premium over the $350 or so dollars that one would currently spend for AMD’s top single-GPU video card – a HD 5870? Even AMD’s dual-GPU in a single video card, the HD 5970, is now dropping in price from over $600, now down to around $500 although it has always been in limited supply. Nvidia’s new GTX 580 now comes with a MSRP of $499. The Galaxy GTX 480 SOC (top) is a massive 3-slot design with a heavy backplate to keep it cool contrast it with the reference GTX 480 (center) and GTX 580 (bottom) and you can see it pictured also with the HD 5870 (right) and HD 6870 (left) which we are all going to benchmark for you. Ossias later this week, but we will summarize his response in our conclusion.
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We are going to bring you the full interview with Mr. AMD’s Take on GTX 580 – ABT’s interview with Stanley Ossias, Director, Mobile Discreet Graphics Product Management at AMDĪlienBabelTech was fortunate to interview Stanley Ossias, Director, Mobile Discreet Graphics Product Management at AMD this morning right about the time the GTX 580 NDA ended. An evaluation such as this one can only give you the equivalent of a “snapshot” of a moment in time and we shall attempt to determine the value of this new video card in relationship to the others and what we can probably expect going forward. We will use HD 6870 and HD 5870 to show you where the GTX 580 fits in relation to them and we also await for AMD’s high end “Cayman” HD 6900 series to be released on December 13, 2010. We found out that the “Barts” GPU it is based on is only a mid-range launch so far with the HD 6870 only slightly faster than the HD 5850 the best part is that it replaces it for less money. We saw AMD introduce their new line up, HD 68×0 series to replace HD 58×0 series in our review last month here. Best of all, the GTX 580 is designed to be faster and more efficient than even the super-overclocked GTX 480s. Well now, enter the completely redesigned Nvidia Tank – at $499 suggested etail pricing. We found that the new Galaxy GTX 480 SOC is not only super-fast, but it is also 30 dBA quieter than the reference version and is also 30C cooler thanks to its impressive and well-engineered 3-slot design and Arctic-Cooling VGA cooler – and all for a suggested etail price of $489. Just over six weeks ago, we introduced a new refined ‘Tank’, the Galaxy GTX 480 SuperOverclock on a mature process, which Galaxy calls “the fastest GTX 480 card in the world.” This overclocked GTX 480 is already the “fastest single GPU video card” in the slower-clocked reference version which we covered in t his review. The culmination of Nvidia’s efforts with their new DX11 Fermi architecture, the GTX 480, their flagship GPU – up-until-this-moment – is the fastest single GPU with the caveat that it runs rather hot and the cooling solutions based on the reference design are rather noisy. This new Fermi GPU – Graphics Processing Unit – a term originally originated by Nvidia is a continuation of their strategy since their G80 which launched over three year ago to create a General Purpose Processor – co-equal with the CPU – that also renders amazing graphics. Nvidia released its long awaited GeForce GTX based on its brand new Fermi DX11 GF100 architecture back in April of this year, six months later than AMD’s own DX11 Cypress video cards. Here is the brand new reference GTX 580 (lower image) compared with the reference GTX 480 released back in April of this year.
On top of that, we also overclock our reference GTX 580 even further to see how it scales in 23 modern games.
Nvidia advertises their new high-performance GPU as “the World’s Fastest DX11 GPU” and we now bring you the details of our performance showdown with the reference GTX 480, the Galaxy SuperOverclocked GTX 480 (overclocked to identical GTX 580 overclocked speeds), the reference Diamond HD 5870 and the reference HD 6870 to see if we can verify Nvidia’s claim.
The Tank refers particularly to Nvidia’s flagship GTX 480 which is equipped to handle any gaming situation at high resolution and with maximum details and with maximum filtering and anti-aliasing applied. We would like to reintroduce Nvidia’s “Tank” as the GTX 580, and this time we present a much leaner, meaner and faster machine – all the while improving on the thermals, power draw and noise of the reference GTX 480.
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