nVidia GTX 580 Launch Day

Well it would seem the rumors were true, big green did have an ace up their sleeve that on the surface seems to fully complete the Fermi circle.

As many of you know the Fermi architecture was designed to support 512 CUDA cores but due to heat concerns the first cards were released only having 480 cores.  While NVidia was flushing out the 400 level product offering they were also refining the Fermi design to both improve performance and lower the power envelope.

GF110 was the latest iteration of Fermi and appears to be the baseline used to create the new GTX 580.  Combine a full 512 stream processors with higher clocks and you get a significant performance increase across the board.

Here are some reviews from around the web

- Zotac GeForce GTX 580 review @ t-break
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: A New Flagship Emerges
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 @ Bjorn3D
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 SLI @ techPowerUp
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1536 MB @ techPowerUp
- GeForce GTX 580 review
- GeForce GTX 580 SLI review
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GF110 Fermi Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
- Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 SLI Launch Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 graphics processor
- HEXUS.net - reviews :: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 graphics card review
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Review @ Hardware Canucks
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580: Back in the Game @ InsideHW

With any luck we'll have a similar review posted in the next few weeks and some product photos and specs posted a little later today.