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Article published on VR-Zone and a Chinese enthusiast forum also posting some benchmarks that compare the GeForce GTX 580 performance to that of the previous generation Nvidia flagship, the GTX 480.
According to the GTX 580 Benchmarks it is 15% to 20% faster than the GTX 480. The TDP of GeForce GTX 580 is at 244W, slightly lower than the GeForce GTX 480. The texture fillrate had been viewed by many as one of the bottlenecks for GF100, and eNet reports that GF110 effectively doubles the TMU count to 128 TMUs. Apart from this substantial improvement in TMU, the GF110 is a “full revision” and fixed version of GF100. Although this number has to be taken with a huge grain of salt since the GTX 480 would go up to almost 300W power consumption in benchmarks like Furmark.
Compared to AMD’s Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, the GTX 580 is up to 35% faster (3D Mark Vantage), although DirectX 10 benchmarks see this performance increase drop to as low as 5%.
GTX 580 will end up slower than AMD’s previous-gen Radeon HD 5970, on average, let alone AMD’s upcoming flagship – Antilles / Radeon HD 6990. GTX 580 against Cayman / Radeon HD 6950/70 is the real battle here
Heavy tessellated benchmarks, such as Unigine Heaven and StoneGiant, can prove to be even twice as fast as on the HD 5870, confirming yet again the fact that Nvidia’s tessellation engine is a lot more powerful than that of the Radeon GPUs.
The GTX 580 is set to release in one week’s time, on November 8th/9th (depending on where you live).
