Nov 9, 2010 08:52 GMT  ·  By

Even though NVIDIA hasn't even gotten around to releasing its newest video card, Gigabyte is especially eager to launch its own, a card known as GV-N580D5-15I-B.

Those end-users keeping track of the developments on the GPU market will know that NVIDIA will very soon release its new video card.

Said adapter will be known as GeForce GTX 580 and will be powered by the GF110 graphics processing unit, NVIDIA's latest Fermi chip.

In other words, it will be a faster, more power efficient and more feature-rich successor to the GTX 480, the currently most capable Fermi card on the market.

NVIDIA is set to make the formal release of its card later today, after which its various partners are bound to make their moves as well.

Still, despite how, normally, said partners wait for the actual launch, Gigabyte reportedly decided to make its move sooner.

As such, the aforementioned GV-N580D5-15I-B has already shown its face and its reference specifications.

While consumers are likely expecting to see factory overclocked models, Gigabyte did not offer one as of yet.

This board, thus, has frequencies of 772 MHz for the GPU, 1,544 MHz for the shaders and 4,008 MHz for the memory.

Speaking of shaders and memory, the newcomers comes with 512 CUDA cores and 1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM.

Said VRAM has an interface of 384 bits and the card is designed with one mini HDMI and a pair of DVI connectors, for video output.

Needless to say, PhysX, SLI, 3D Vision and the CUDA technologies are fully supported, not just DirectX 11.

According to the premature report, it seems that Gigabyte gave this product a price tag of $559.99, which is a fair bit higher than the retail price of NVIDIA's own card ($499). Whether said price tag eventually decreases remains to be seen.