GeForce GTX 580 graphics card will not be produced anymore. According to Sweclockers.com NVIDIA decided to stop producing GTX 580 Fermi chip in favour of the GeForce GTX 680 card based on Kepler GK104 GPU. It’s about time you may say, GeForce GTX 580 the fastest single-gpu from Fermi cards which was released in November [...]

Tom’s Hardware reports that AMD’s HD 7000 cards may present worse image quality than their predecessors to increase overall performance. Tom’s Hardware posted very interesting article. They noticed some blurry textures while performing tests with HD 7800s cards. So they continued with their investigation to find evidence. As they say, previous HD 6000 generation cards [...]

Take one ASUS GTX 680 2GB, overclock it to its limit… add one MSI R7970 Lightning, the highest spec AMD card around and overclock it to breaking point. Thrown in comparisons at 1920×1080 and 5760×1080 mixing with the latest games such as Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3 and SW: The Old Republic. Check cards are [...]

The NVIDIA GTX 580 GPU, based on the GF110 Fermi architecture, is old but it isn’t forgotten. Released in November of 2010, NVIDIA had held the single GPU performance grown for more than a year before it was usurped by AMD and the Radeon HD 7970 just this month. Still, the GTX 580 is a [...]

KFA2, the European premium NVIDIA brand, announced today the GTX 580 MDT X4 EX OC, the latest in the line of MDT series multi-display performance gaming graphics cards. The KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 MDT X4 is designed to be the flagship product within our MDT range, offering unparalleled performance in the latest DirectX 11 games [...]

To spice up the holidays of Nvidia fans, EVGA has developed a couple of ‘new’ GeForce GTX 580 Classified cards, two ‘Ultra’ models which come with GPU/shader/memory clocks of 900/1800/4212 MHz (previously-released GTX 580 Classified cards topped out at 855/1710/4212 MHz). Beside the ultra-high clocks mentioned, EVGA’s latest offerings feature 512 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit [...]

While PNY is not a name we have talked about when it comes to graphic cards since 2001, these guys are still around. For the most part there is nothing special about its cards, but today we have something that is special from PNY, an out-of-the box water cooled GTX 580. Let’s see what it [...]

After testing two top-end graphics cards from Gigabyte and EVGA based on the Nvidia GF110 processor, we’ve got yet another same-class product to check out. This is the MSI N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition that was announced back in summer at Computex 2011. Before the announcement MSI offered an ordinary N580GTX Lightning but the Xtreme Edition [...]

Here are some of the first pictures of an unreleased custom design GeForce GTX 580 graphics card by Galaxy, given out by the good folks at HardOCP. It may look like yet another GTX 580 graphics card with a beefy cooling solution, but it’s a little more than that. To begin with, it has a [...]

The ASUS ROG MARS II Limited Edition video card brings true dual-GeForce GTX 580 GPUs to the table. Take two of these and you can have a true GTX 580 Quad-SLI system. We’ll dive into performance, including Battlefield 3, and see what these can do directly compared to 4-way CrossFireX. What we are about to [...]

Mobile graphics cards are really a different beast than the desktop variants. Despite have similar names and model numbers, the specifications vary greatly as the GTX 580M isn’t equivalent to the GTX 580 and the HD 6990M isn’t even a dual-GPU product. Also, getting the capability to do a direct head-to-head is almost always a [...]

We know that Kitguru readers love video cards with enhanced cooling, so today’s product review will certainly get the juices flowing. We are going to be testing two of the latest KFA2 Geforce GTX580 ‘Anarchy Edition’ cards in SLI. These cards feature the excellent Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus with tri fan cooling solution. Nvidia’s [...]

Following the currently worldwide trend, EVGA is going batty for Rocksteady’s action game Batman Arkham City, so batty that it released a special edition GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked card that has the Dark Knight all over (and probably includes a voucher for the game). Available at Newegg, the GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked Batman Arkham City [...]

It is sad, but these days Leadtek mostly sells copies of reference graphics cards, sometimes with different coolers they also buy from third parties. But we hope this is only a temporary setback and the days of customization are not over for the company. Today we shall review as many as four graphics cards and [...]

It used to be the case that your CPU was top priority when it came to water-cooling your PC. However, with the latest super-quiet high-end air coolers such as Be Quiet’s Dark Rock Advanced able to tame the likes of Intel’s Core i5-2500K, even when it’s overclocked to 5GHz, it’s not surprising that the focus [...]

ASUS every now and then, does crazy weird stuff, for example every year they are producing a handful of graphics cards that pretty much nobody can buy. We’ve seen the original brutal Mars, the exemplary ARES but ASUS is at it again with the all new Mars II, yep that’s right. The x-factor products makes [...]

PNY Technologies is now launching their all-in-one Liquid Cooled Graphics solution. The new line of Liquid Cooled Graphics will debut with the XLR8TM Liquid Cooled GeForce® GTX 580. PNY’s new Liquid Cooled Graphics system delivers significant benefits, with up to 30% cooler temperatures, 30% quieter acoustics and 10% faster performance than the standard reference designed [...]

In a market jam packed with a delightful selection of fancy custom cooler shrouds, port options, fan variations, and borderline hallucinogenic boxes, EVGA’s card looks jarringly normal. A nice normal, the kind of normal which takes you back almost 10 months where this very design wet the pants of many a geek. EVGA has embraced [...]

NVIDIA’s high performance GTX 580 graphics card has been a very impressive product, offering killer gaming performance to enthusiasts who crave speed and power. However, as we know, reference designs will only push things so far; temperatures and noise levels on the high side are typically the weak points in the stock designs. But custom [...]

A couple of weeks ago we were allowed to post a ‘preview’ of the ASUS MARS 2 video card. Today, we follow up that preview with a look at the performance of this video card. The ASUS MARS 2 retails for $1499.99 plus $10.60 for shipping! Not everyone is going to spend this time of [...]