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In the ongoing ‘leaks' surrounding the GTX580, it appears that Techpowerup published their review of the card early, but then pulled it (it can still be found via google but the pages have been removed). Reviews of the card are due to go up in a few hours time.
Obviously many forums latched onto this and information from the review has been lifted, including performance graphs. According to the overclockers.co.uk forums the conclusion bullet points read:
Pro
•Substantial performance improvement over GTX 480
•Large reduction in power consumption vs. GTX 480
•Quieter than other cards in this performance class
•Native HDMI output
•Software voltage control
•Support for DirectX 11
•Support for CUDA / PhysX
Con
•Still not as power efficient as AMD's designs
•Current limiter could complicate advanced overclocking
•Still limited to two active display outputs per card
•High price
•DirectX 11 relevance very limited at this time
Above is an image of all the graphs in the review, sorted by a helpful Overclockers forum member. Performance gains look to be much in line with what everyone expected.
KitGuru says: What you were waiting for, or are you hanging on for the 6970 shortly?
5970 is still kicking its ass. good single GPU performance levels though. Perhaps its just me, but im not really that excited about this. it still consumes a huge amount of power.
I saw in the overclockers thread on the forums that someone said they read it lowers performance once it goes over 300 watts????
Exactly what we all expected. so much info leaked it was pretty obvious a week ago. good card, but I wouldnt pay this for a video card regardless. same with ATI solutions. If AMD get fairly close to this, with 6970 at 100 less, then it will sell buckets.
Let us not forget that the 580 is using a new driver for this review. God knows what performance benefits are in the driver for this launch.
•Current limiter could complicate advanced overclocking
Ehhh? whats that about?
Looks to be a thermal/power limiting when overclocking. looks like techpowerup only got an 8% overclock before performance crapped out.
Benchmark results are pretty good, but everyone basically predicted the increases. Not massive performance improvements, and clearly a stop gap to keep them competitive with AMD’s new high end boards (which look to be suffering from yields right now anyway).
Bit of a ‘bleh’ really. nothing exciting.
If they hit a 400 uk price point its pretty good value considering the 480 was almost 500 for a long time. still way over the odds as you can get this performance from lower end boards in SLI or CF. maybe im just bored of it all now.
Its interesting results, but im more interested in the overclocking stuff, mentioned in bullet points. is there a thermal cap or power cap on this card to stop it reaching certain thresholds? Dont get me wrong, i love nvidia, but AMD have the power consumption and outputs sorted. I doubt the 6970 will beat this to be honest, but if it consumes 20%-30% less power then its a win for me.
Are you guys reading the same figures? I think this is massively impressive. sure the 5970 beats it, but thats basically a CF card. be reasonable !
For all of the supposedly impressive improvement, wouldn’t a 480 running at the same clocks be about as fast?
Im saddened. nothing exciting really. GTX480, just a bit faster.
For conclusions I’ll wait for the official reviews…
But to me it is quite interesting to how it fairs one high end card and the same price CF/SLI setup…
Because I think that enough computers now a days have 2 x PCIex8 and mid range cards in CF/SLI are very very capable setups 🙂
Like most people in here, pretty much what we expected. a few arch changes, but still a monster power consumer. 480GTX but a little faster.
Aint that excited, but the midrange gets me anyway, much better deals. How many people reading this have a 30 inch screen anyway? one in a thousand?
@ Stupido.
That is an official review. techpowerup have the card 🙂
Since the gtx580 gained 7.4% in performance from a 8% overclock it is no better/worse than a gtx480 with its scaling.
As you can see from the chart, the gtx580 is 15% better on average than a gtx480 however clock for clock it is only 5% faster.
So, it’s cooler, quieter and generates less heat and assuming you have a gtx480 which overclocks as well as the gtx580, it is only 5% faster on average and in some games, slower.
Techpowerup are a good site for reviews. This product didnt hit the spot for me. seems like an overclocked GTX480. The world needs this like a hole in the head.
•Current limiter could complicate advanced overclocking
Sounds great 🙁
Google shows techpowerup have an SLI review too, but its also not linking to a working article. Either he shot the load early, or its a clever ploy to get rankings on google.
@Tech Head
I recognized that it comes from techpowerup (I read that web site as often as this one), but I still do not find it there, so it is not official enough to me 😛 ( I bet Zardon has one too 😉
However, the graphs are quite interesting – so much that I again would be very interested to see midrange CF/SLI compared to single high end.