14 DAY TRIAL // Eurocom has just announced that it added Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580M and Quadro 5010M discrete graphics cards in MXM 3.0b format to its offer, both of these solutions being now available for embedded systems, SFF PCs and CUDA developers that require high-performance GPUs.
Introduced by Nvidia at the end of June, the GTX 580M is a mobile version of the GF104/114 core that was used by Nvidia for the desktop GTX 460/560 graphics cards and it packs 384 streaming processors.
The main clock of the GPU is set at 620MHz (so the shader cores operate at 1240MHz), and this also includes a 256-bit memory bus which is paired with 2GB of GDDR5 memory operating at an effective 3GHz.
Apart from the improved clock speeds, the main advantage that the GTX 580M holds over its predecessor, the GTX 485M, is the support for Nvidia's Optimus technology.
The other discrete graphics solution available today from Eurocom, the Quadro 5010M, is Nvidia's fastest professional GPU to be developed for mobile systems and it sports no less than 384 CUDA cores (just as the GTX 580M) as well as a 256-bit memory bus that is connected to a massive 4GB of GDDR5 video buffer.
The GPU is running at 384MHz, and the card is compatible with the Open GL 4.1, DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0 standards, while also supporting an error correction algorithm for the VRAM.
“Modular Graphics Processors allow for much more flexibility and the ability to provide various performance levels to far greater extents than typical embedded Graphics Processors,” said Mark Bialic, president of Eurocom
“We are seeing many Embedded Systems Developers moving to Modular Graphics solutions because of the many benefits.
“Modular MXM technology assists companies with accelerating all phases of product development, testing and getting to the market,” concluded the company's rep.
Eurocom hasn't revealed any information regarding the price of the GeForce GTX 580M nor that of the Quadro 5010M MXM 3.0b graphics cards.