14 DAY TRIAL // Not that much time has passed since we reported about Nvidia making the GTX 580 official 'by accident' and another set of rumors to feature Nvidia's next generation DirectX 11 flagship is headed our way, this time bringing us the very first images depicting the board.
If these claims are indeed true and the board pictured is truly the GTX 580 then Nvidia must have improved their performance per Watt since this thing seems surprisingly small considering its rumored specs that state this single-GPU monster will come with 512 stream processing units, compared to the 480 SPs used in its current flagship, the GTX 480.
Since this cooler bears an uncanny resemblance with the one pictured in the very fist images that were leaked before the GTX 480 was released it is possible that Nvidia is testing this card at lower clock speeds in order to see how it will perform, the final version of the cooler being finalized much nearer to the launch date.
If this is to be the case, we may as well see a somewhat larger cooling solution being employed in the retail GTX 580 graphics card, details being pretty sketchy at this moment.
Unfortunately, no other infos were divulged along with these pictures so all that we know until know is that the GTX 580 will allegedly come with 128 texturing units and a 512-bit wide memory bus (although there are some sources that state this will be kept at 384 bits as in the present day GF100 architecture).
Whatever it may end up being the case, thing are set to become really interesting in the graphics arena since rumors state that the GTX 580 will be launched sometime this year, competing with the future Radeon HD 6900 series that is going to hit the market in late November, so get ready for an interesting fight. (via TCMagazine)