NVIDIA has inadvertently confirmed the GeForce GTX 580 this weekend by briefly posting mention of it on its 3D Vision requirements page (since pulled). The mention didn't confirm more than that it would have full support for 3D in Blu-ray and gaming but hinted at a near-term release. The graphics veteran is expected to ship the GTX 580 in late November or early December.
The new design is mostly an improved version of the GTX 480 that boosts the number of processing cores from 448 to at least 512 while more than doubling the texture units, to 128, and widening the memory bandwidth with a 512-bit bus. NVIDIA is expected to initially focus on the high end, but mid-range and mobile chipsets should follow in the early part of 2011. The lower-powered chips are more likely to be the first that reach pre-built systems and should scale down to as little as 96 cores and a 64-bit bus.
AMD has already issued its next-generation hardware in the Radeon HD 6800 series, but the current chipsets target mid-range users. [via Geeks3D]
AMD has already issued its next-generation hardware in the Radeon HD 6800 series, but the current chipsets target mid-range users. [via Geeks3D]
Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/23/nvidia.geforce.gtx.580.confirmed.through.site.list/#ixzz13NvKnREV
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