14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that Point of View and the TGT Tuning team have had enough waiting and have finally decided to bring out another pair of GeForce GTX 580 video controllers.
Like NVIDIA's various other partners, Point of View was quick to bring out its own GeForce GTX 580 card once the reference board was made official.
That card stuck to the reference specifications, but it was only a matter of time before some overclocked versions were also delivered.
Now, in collaboration with the TGT Tuning team, the hardware supplier has presented two factory-overclocked controllers.
The first one is called GeForce GX 580 Charged and has the GF110 Fermi-based graphics processing unit running at 810 MHz instead of 772 MHz.
Conversely, the shaders (512 CUDA cores) and the 1,536 MB of GDDR5 VRAM are clocked at 1,620 MHz and 4,050 MHz, respectively (stock is 1,544 MHz and 4,008 MHz).
The second card, GTX 580 ultra Charged, is even faster, with GPU, shader and memory clocks of 841 MHz, 1,682 MHz and 4,104 MHz, respectively.
Other than that, the build of the newcomers is mostly identical to what NVIDIA put together.
This means that the GeForce GTX 580 Charged and GTX 580 Ultra Charged feature a memory interface of 384 bits.
The two somehow manage to make do with the reference cooling solution as well, even in spite of the significantly higher frequencies which are guaranteed to produce more heat.
Needless to say, they have full support for DirectX 11 graphics, as well as the CUDA, PhysX and SLI technologies, as well as 3D Vision surround, among other things.
Finally, like all of their peers, they connect to one or more displays via dual-DVI and a mini HDMI port.
Already available for pre-order, the Charged and ultra Charged models bear prices of 503 Euro and 533 Euro, respectively. An even stronger beast edition should also come out sooner or later.