14 DAY TRIAL // With NVIDIA and its many partners having already presented their various iterations of the GeForce GTX 580 video board, it was only a matter of time before Lantic also announced such a card.
For those consumers in need of an update or a reminder, NVIDIA launched its latest DirectX 11 graphics adapter just a short while ago.
Dubbed GeForce GTX 580, it is, currently, the most powerful single-GPU video board on the market.
NVIDIA's various partners have already unveiled a slew of more or less custom-made versions, even some with factory overclocking.
Lantic did not go as far as to tweak the clock speeds, but it did also deliver a card of its own, one that stays mostly faithful to the reference design.
As informed end-users know, the controller is built around the GF110 graphics processing unit, a 40nm chip based on the Fermi architecture.
The clock of this GPU is 772 MHz, whereas the shaders (512 CUDA cores) and memory (1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM, though the box, oddly enough, states 1 GB) work at 1,544 MHz and 1,536 MHz, respectively.
There is, of course, support for DirectX 11, as well as OpenGL 4.1 and NVIDIA's various own technologies.
The list includes CUDA, PhysX, SLI (for multi-GPU setups) and 3D Vision surround, the last of these allowing triple-monitor scenarios on SLI configurations.
Finally, one, two or three displays can be hooked up to the video controller by means of the two DVI outputs and the mini HDMI connector.
As for cooling, Lantic stuck to the stock version, which has a vapor chamber and a single fan.
The price has not been mentioned, but it can be assumed that sales will be done in exchange for a sum on par with that of the many other GTX 580 cards so far released, which is roughly $550 or something along those lines.