14 DAY TRIAL // With the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 out in the open, and the company's various partners eagerly presenting their own cards, Leadtek wasted no more time in announcing its own.
As end-users probably know by now, the new video controller from the Santa Clara, California-based GPU developer has arrived.
Basically, it is an enthusiast-grade graphics cards powered by the GF110 graphics processing unit, built on the Fermi micro-architecture.
Already various hardware makers have revealed their own cards, which either stick to the reference design or bring some sort of extra benefit, like factory overclocking or different cooling, or both.
Leadtek decided to do the former and leave the task of creating a factory-overclocked model for later.
As such, the company presented the WinFast GTX 580, which has 512 CUDA cores, 1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM and a memory interface of 384 bits.
In terms of clock speeds, the GPU works at 772 MHz, the same speed that NVIDIA imposed, while the shaders and memory are set at 1,544 MHz and 4,008 MHz, respectively.
To this is added the obvious support for DirectX 11, as well as OpenGl 4.1 and NVIDIA's own array of technologies meant to boost performance and video quality, among other things.
The list of such assets includes support for CUDA, PhysX, SLI (for multi-GPU configurations) and 3D Vision Surround, which lets SLI setups spread the image across three displays at once.
Said three displays can be connected to the board itself by means of the two DVI and the mini HDMI video outputs.
Unfortunately, while there is already a product page dedicated to the Leadtek WinFast GTX 580, there is no mention of an exact price.
Still, it can be assumed that the final tag won't be far from that of the other cards unleashed so far, which would point towards the $550 figure.