Nov 9, 2010 15:54 GMT  ·  By

Now that NVIDIA's newest video card, the GeForce GTX 580, has finally made its appearance, its partners are eagerly contributing with their own cards, and Colorful has just joined in with a factory overclocked iteration.

For those that do not yet know, the GeForce GTX 580 was released just a very short time ago and is NVIDIA's latest Fermi card.

Basically, it is a new enthusiast-grade adapter set to replace the GTX 480 and described as the most powerful single-GPU card on the market.

Now, following in the footsteps of Gigabyte, PNY, Palit, and EVGA, among others, Colorful brought forth a GTX 580 of its own.

This newcomer, unlike most of the others, has a measure of factory overclocking instead of sticking to the reference specifications.

The card has the 40nm GF110 graphics processing unit working at a clock speed of 800 MHz, which is a significant jump compared to the 772 MHz of NVIDIA's offer.

Additionally, the 1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM is set to work at a speed of 4,200 MHz, a fair bit higher than the 4,008 MHz of the stock model.

The overall design, on the other hand, remained unchanged, meaning that the card has the same dual-slot cooling solution.

One of the assets that allows the new DirectX 11 board to score high marks in all benchmarks and perform well in games is the memory interface of 384 bits.

Of course, the product also has full support for CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision and SLI, for multi-GPU configurations.

Unfortunately, no sort of pricing and availability details were unveiled, although the amount of money required to acquire one such card will likely be of over $550.

NVIDIA did suggest a retail price of $499, but most stock-clocked versions have, so far, revolved around $550, which can only mean higher tags for factory overclocked iterations.