The GeForce GTX 580 was a high-end graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on November 9th, 2010. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the GF110 graphics processor, in its GF110-375-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12.

GF110 has 4 GPCs each capable of 8 pixels per clock. This limits complete GPU to 32 pixels per clock and because of that it can't feed all 48 ROPs when they all require data at the same time. Additional ROPs however can be used for MSAA (because it doesn't require additional data from rasterizers, while giving more work to ROPs.)

Nov 9, 2010 · Today NVIDIA releases their new GeForce GTX 580 which is based on their Fermi architecture. The card is 20% faster than the GTX 480, yet requires less power. NVIDIA has also optimized fan noise making this the quietest highest-end card on the market today.

Combine with 3D Vision technology for the ultimate 3 panel stereoscopic 3D gaming experience. Designed for PCI Express 2.0 ×16 for a peak bandwidth (counting both directions) of up to 20 gigabytes (GB) per second (PCIe 2.0 devices are backwards compatible with …

Nov 9, 2010 · The GeForce GTX 580 delivered very strong performance here, easily outpacing the Radeon HD 5970 (by 25 to 40 percent) and the Radeon HD 5870 (by as much as 80 percent). The new GTX 580 is...

The world's fastest GPU has arrived with the EVGA GeForce GTX 580. Experience blockbuster games like Call of Duty®: Black Ops and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X® 2 in their full glory with everything cranked to the max.

Nov 18, 2010 · Now staring down the barrel of AMD's 6900 series (due next month), Nvidia has decided to fire the first shot. Fermi is back with vengeance, introducing the new GF110-based GeForce GTX 580....

Nov 9, 2010 · After an arguably disappointing GeForce GTX 480 launch back in March, we knew the company had to be working hard on a successor. Meet its flagship GeForce GTX 580, based on the GF110 GPU.

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The card's processor and graphics clock speeds are 1.544 GHz and 772 MHz respectively. It also boasts 512 CUDA cores, 48 ROPs, and 64 texture units. The GeForce GTX 580 embeds 1.5 GB of GDDR5 memory. Because the memory runs at 1.002 GHz, and uses 384 bit interface, the effective memory bandwidth is 192.4 GB/s.