Overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 'Golden Sample' Outed by Gainward

While some of NVIDIA's partners preferred to stick to the basics as far as the company's brand-new GPU, the GeForce GTX 580, is concerned, and released versions that are pretty much identical to the reference card, others have decided that a little factory OC never hurt no one and came up with such tweaked products as well, one such company being Gainward, who, beside the stock GTX 580, also released one of their already famous GS (or Golden Sample) models. The basic Gainward GeForce GTX 580 is dynamically driven by enhanced Fermi-architecture GPU (GF110) and, like most of the other solutions of this type available out there, is clocked at 772MHz and geared with the same 1536MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2004MHz on a 384 bits bus. Plus, even without overclocking it, the Gainward GeForce GTX 580 not only enhances its gaming performance up to 20% over its previous generation, but also provides a very good level of stability. However, if you're the type of user who wants to take things to the next level, then you have to try out the Gainward GeForce GTX 580 “Golden Sample”, that has been over-clocked approximately from 772MHz to 835MKz for all 512 CUDA Cores and has a whopping 2100MHz for 1536MB GDDR5 384 bits memory, the equivalent bandwidth reaching up to 201.6 GB/sec. Moreover, every single Gainward GeForce GTX 580 “Golden Sample” ensures a very good level of stability and quieter operation under aggressive over-clocking, managing in the same time to deliver a very good level of performance. So, while its DirectX 10 performance surpasses up to 43 % than the previous generation and 30 % higher in DirectX 11, its performance in DirectX10 benchmark goes beyond proudly 19% comparing with competing GPUs and exceeds 73% in DirectX 11 performance. While exact pricing for either of the two cards has not yet been provided, you can expect the Golden Sample to go seriously north of the 500 US dollars price point set for this thing, given the enhanced level of performance it can provide.