Earlier this month NVIDIA rolled out the GeForce GTX 580 graphics card as their fastest GPU to date with 512 CUDA cores, a 772MHz core clock, 1544MHz processor clock, 1536MB of 2GHz GDDR5 memory, and support for three-way SLI. The GeForce GTX 580 with its GF110 core is based upon a refined version of the Fermi architecture and is certainly a step-up from the GeForce GTX 480 that launched just earlier this year. For those curious how this NVIDIA graphics card performs under Linux, here’s the first benchmark and it’s compared to the Windows driver performance too.

We, unfortunately, do not yet have our hands on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580. Nor do we know if we will, it depends if NVIDIA sends one out, and even when reviewing the GeForce GTX 460 a few months back it wasn’t their marketing department that ultimately sent out that sample, but rather Andy Ritger of NVIDIA ended up buying the card. Fortunately though, we have the first Linux benchmark of the GeForce GTX 580 from one of our long-time readers.

Deanjo, one of our most active contributors to the Phoronix Forums with thousands of posts (though not enough to top AMD’s John Bridgman) and is someone always tinkering with the latest computer hardware, has picked up a GeForce GTX 580 graphics card.

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