Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 expected to perform 20% faster than 480

This is some good news for those of us waiting for the next big thing.

Nvidia is preparing to launch its GF110-based GeForce GTX 580 by the end of November or early December 2010 with performance 20% faster than its current GeForce GTX 480, according to sources from graphics card makers.

After GF110, Nvidia is also set to gradually unveil its GF112, GF114 and GF119 in 2011 with market positions similar to its GF104, GF106 and GF108, respectively. The company is also preparing to announce 28nm Kepler GPUs by the end of 2011 and is currently developing Maxwell as Kepler's successor.

Assuming this is using the same Fermi architecture can likely expect a full 512 shader cores and maybe a 512-bit memory interface.  Of course there isn't anything keeping nVidia from increasing the number of CUDA cores, maybe the GF11X will have 640?, or maybe more. 

Related Web URL: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20101020PD223.html