14 DAY TRIAL // As the next-gen Fermi graphics cat is now out of the bag, just about all of NVIDIA's partners are now starting to roll out their own cards based on the reference design provided by the famous GPU manufacturer, one of the first companies to do so being traditional NVIDIA integrator Point of View (also known by its acronym, POV). Unfortunately, for the time being, POV has decided to play it rather safe and released a pretty stock version of the GTX 580, featuring the 40 nm GF110 core running at 772 Mhz, coupled with the 512 Cuda Cores and 1536 MB DDR5 memory, running at 4008 Mhz (yeah, if you've been following our articles regarding the latest GeForce to arrive on the market, these figures will sound awfully familiar). Naturally, the same will go for the shade clock (1544 Mhz), as well as the fact that the device sports a 384-bit memory bus and requires two PCI-E 2.0 interfaces on the mobo (yeah, that's a pretty large GPU, by all accounts). No major differences can be found in the field of connectivity, either, since we've also got the dual DVI-I ports, and a mini-HDMI for outing content to a HDTV or suitably-equipped PC monitor. Quite obviously, the GTX 580 trademark vapor chamber cooling solution stays in place, and pretty much the same goes for the rest of the technologies packed within the new GPU, starting from the 3D vision support and going up to PureVideo. Now, we sincerely hope that Point of View will release one of those superb TGT overclocked cards built on the GTX 580 as well, but until that happens, we'll have to stick to the reference. While Point of View doesn't provide any significant pricing or availability information for this thing, it's quite likely that it will follow closely the mean retail price suggested by NVIDIA, especially taking into account the fact that the differences compared to the reference board are minor (if any).
The NVIDIA GTX 580 from Point of View
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