GeForce GTX 580 from Inno3D Ready to Launch

With NVIDIA preparing a new video card, it is not surprising that leaks and rumors about it are cropping up already, and it seems that Inno3D will launch its own model immediately after NVIDIA does.

Not long ago, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released its Radeon HD 6000 cards aimed at the mainstream market and implied that a high-end card should come out soon as well.

Still, as one would no doubt expect, NVIDIA is quite bent on maintaining its title as holder of the fastest graphics card on the market.

As such, it will launch the GeForce GTX 580 in the near future, sometime next week if all the rumors swarming the web are to be believed.

Now, it seems that one of its partners, Inno3D to be exact, has somehow managed to let a photo of its custom model slip to the Internet.

The card is based on the reference design and is, of course, powered by the GF110 graphics processing unit, clocked at 772 MHz.

Additionally, there are 1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM on the adapter, which have a frequency of 4,400 MHz.

This amount of VRAM works on an interface of 384 bits, while the shader clock is of 1,544 MHz.

Needless to say, the newcomer will have full support for not only DirectX 11, but NVIDIA's various technologies as well, such as PhysX and 3-Way SLI, for multi-GPU configurations.

Finally, for video output, the card's maker threw in dual-DVI and an HDMI connector.

Basically, this will be one of the adapters set to maintain and/or enforce NVIDIA's hold over the enthusiast segment.

The price of the GTX 580 is supposedly set to be of around $599, though how well the various custom boards stick to this figure will be revealed once they are actually made official.