This month brings the first AMD graphics card, the 6xxx series on the market, while nVidia brings out some alternatives for the 5xxx series. Although there is the "Cayman" GPU (Radeon 6970) until November, but they will in all likelihood, the current top model from nVidia, exceed the GTX480 in performance.
Reason enough for the boys in green to be nervous. So they go back to more or less tried and true tactics, introducing completely new GPUs into the conversation to provide the graphics card from ATI Paroli: The GF110 graphics chips. Based on them are now announced GTX 580th
The card is over 512 Cuda cores, 128 and 512-bit GDDR5 TMUs have memory. The memory should fail to follow rumors about 2 gigabytes and a TDP similar to the GTX480 have. Overall, these announcements seem a bit rushed and not as they would be realized in the near future. However, it is nVidia managed safely with this announcement, the move to something more in the spotlight. Realistic than the sounds of GF100b GF110 chip chip, which mainly reflects the difference GF100 chip so that all 512 Cuda cores are activated during the 384-bit GDDR5 memory is retained. It will also have 64 TMUs and a slightly higher TDP than the GTX480.
About the release date of the new cards has been said so far nothing, even if talk first sources of a launch in the first quarter of 2011. If, however, Nvidia continues to have problems with the 40nm process, expected to GF100b chips with 512 Cuda cores remain so still a cost and power play's topic.
Reason enough for the boys in green to be nervous. So they go back to more or less tried and true tactics, introducing completely new GPUs into the conversation to provide the graphics card from ATI Paroli: The GF110 graphics chips. Based on them are now announced GTX 580th
The card is over 512 Cuda cores, 128 and 512-bit GDDR5 TMUs have memory. The memory should fail to follow rumors about 2 gigabytes and a TDP similar to the GTX480 have. Overall, these announcements seem a bit rushed and not as they would be realized in the near future. However, it is nVidia managed safely with this announcement, the move to something more in the spotlight. Realistic than the sounds of GF100b GF110 chip chip, which mainly reflects the difference GF100 chip so that all 512 Cuda cores are activated during the 384-bit GDDR5 memory is retained. It will also have 64 TMUs and a slightly higher TDP than the GTX480.
About the release date of the new cards has been said so far nothing, even if talk first sources of a launch in the first quarter of 2011. If, however, Nvidia continues to have problems with the 40nm process, expected to GF100b chips with 512 Cuda cores remain so still a cost and power play's topic.