Technical data / specifications[Fiche Technique / Spécifications[/fr]

The ASUS ENGTX580 has been built according to NVIDIAs reference design which features the new Vapoer Chamber Cooler which keeps card significantly cooler than its predecessor. Althoug they claim that the power consumption has been lowered the card can still consume up to 244 Watt of power. Compared to the GF100 the GF110 core is a is more of an evolution than a revolution. Now all the 512 CUDA-cores are activated, there are 64 texture units as well as 16 polymorph engines. All these features together provide more computing power to the card. Furthermore NVIDIA also made changes on the FP16 filtering, the Z-buffering and also the 64 KB-L1-Cache has been optimized in order to enhance shader performance. What is also new is an internal load monitoring which can will cut the performance in half as soon as a certain threshold is being reached. When we were overclocking the card as high as possible we noticed this kind of hardware thermal throttling during the execution of 3DMark 11.

	GTX 580	GTX 480	ASUS EAH6850	ASUS EAH5870
Chip	GF110	GF100	RV940	RV870
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	3.0billion	3.2 billion	1.7 billion	2.15 billion
GPU clock	772 MHz	700 MHz	790 MHz	850 MHz
Shader clock	1'544 MHz	1'401 MHz	790 MHz	850 MHz
Memory	1'536 MB GDDR5	1'536 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5	1'024 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	1'002 MHz	924 MHz	1'000 MHz	1'200 MHz
Memory interface	384 Bit	384 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	192'400 MB/s	177'408 MB/s	128'000 MB/s	153'600 MB/s
TMUs	64	60	48	80
TAUs	64	60	48	80
Shader Cores	512 (1D)	480 (1D)	192 (5D)	320 (5D)
ROPs	48 ROP	48 ROP	32 ROP	32 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	244 Watt	250 Watt	127 Watt	188 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Furmark
Page 3 -Preview	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

To the comments