ZOTAC GeForce GTX 670 TwinCooler: Very short CG and overclockée

The Chinese manufacturer Zotac launches a very short GTX 670, overclockées of plant and having frequencies of a House, the TwinCooler heatpipe.

ZOTAC will soon be a GeForce GTX 670 that has the particularity to be very short, less than 18 cm, because with the PCB of the GTX 670 of reference NVIDIA but by taking away cooling at the end of card system which then rallongeait all.

The GeForce GTX 670 TwinCooler is then a compact stencil (177.8 x 111.2 mm x 35 mm) adopter then a heatpipe dual fan 80 mm responsible for blowing on a finned aluminum radiator, all occupying therefore two slots in the housing.

ZOTAC not content with planing GTX 670 size allows even to overclock all frequencies of plant for the GPU with 954/1033 MHz in standard/GPU Boost and video memory with 1552 MHz for the 2 GB of GDDR5 (against 915/980/1502 MHz on the classic GTX 670).

The map always has 2 6-pin PCI-e connectors to feed and its double rear bracket offers four video outputs including two ports DVI Dual-Link, 1 1 4 HDMI and a DisplayPort 1.2 port. The map is expected for June 20 at a rate not specified.

We will of course try to us available to gauge its performance and especially to test the effectiveness of the TwinCooler to the level of heat dissipation and noise to cool a powerful GPU on a small PCB.

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NVIDIA formalizes the GeForce GT 640, the Kepler not expensive

The California skier, NVIDIA, launches its GeForce GT 640, entered graphics card based on the Kepler architecture.

NVIDIA took the Computex currently taking place in Taipei to formalize its graphics card of entry based on the new architecture Kepler, the GeForce GT 640.

However, unlike its counterparts that are the GTX 670, 680 and 690 targeting the high and very high-quality, GK104 on the horizon. The small last hosts actually its PCB a GK107, declination of Kepler to the die of only 118 mm² for 1.3 billion transistors always engraved 28 nm (294 mm² and 3.5 billion transistors for the GK104).

Thus, the GK107 consists of 2 SMX 384 CUDA cores, 32 units of texturing and 16 ROPs. The GPU is running at 900 Mhz and does not benefit from GPU Boost technology, the 1 or 2 GB of DDR3 memory see frequency sets to 891 Mhz and are sent via a 128 bit for a bandwidth bus up to then the 28.5 GB/s. The map takes a format low - profile which monopolisera that a slot and its 65 Watts TDP allows him to escape to power connector, the energy provided by the PCI-Express port, more card is efficient in standby mode it consumes more than 15 Watts.

The outputs GT 640 offer three GeForce video with two Dual-Link DVI ports and a mini-HDMI 1 4A for a fee of $ 99. Many third-party manufacturers and partners of NVIDIA will also offer their own models of references and/or specific with many variants which we reparleront you soon.

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MSI launches a GeForce GTX 670 OC with the Twin Frozr IV

The MSI Builder offers a GeForce GTX totally customisée 670, overclockée of plant and its home, the Twin Frozr IV heatpipe equipped.

MSI, after having proposed that a simple clone of the reference GeForce GTX 670, will launch a new fully customisée model, the GTX 670 Power Edition.

Overclockée factory and equipped with cooling House Twin Frozr IV system, the map has under the hood. GPU frequency therefore were reviewed upward by MSI and proposes now the 1019/1079 Mhz standard and GPU Boost against respectively 915/980 Mhz on the GTX 670 of origin NVIDIA. The 2 GB of GDDR5 remain for their processors at the frequency recommended by the firm to the Chameleon or 1502 Mhz, damage.

The map is thus cooled by the new version of the MSI own heatpipe, Twin Frozr in its fourth grinding. It consists of a large sink finned aluminum crossed by five heat pipes in nickel plated copper, the all topped two diameter 80 mm PWM fans composed each of 13 blades. The Builder and announces an increase of 20% of the air stream to achieve a reduction in the temperature of 20 ° and diminished noise of 11.7 dB from the original cooling system on the NVIDIA GTX 670.

Dust Removal developed by the mark is also and, on startup the PC to run the fans at full speed in the opposite direction to dust that would be filed on it. MSI GTX 670 Power Edition using the PCB of the GTX 680, 27 cm long and has four video outputs including two ports DVI Dual Link, a HDMI 1 4 port and a Display Port 1.2.

The card will be available for sale from the half of the month of June for a fee of €420.

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NVIDIA formalizes the GeForce GT 640, the Kepler not expensive

The California skier, NVIDIA, launches its GeForce GT 640, entered graphics card based on the Kepler architecture.

NVIDIA took the Computex currently taking place in Taipei to formalize its graphics card of entry based on the new architecture Kepler, the GeForce GT 640.

However, unlike its counterparts that are the GTX 670, 680 and 690 targeting the high and very high-quality, GK104 on the horizon. The small last hosts actually its PCB a GK107, declination of Kepler to the die of only 118 mm² for 1.3 billion transistors always engraved 28 nm (294 mm² and 3.5 billion transistors for the GK104).

Thus, the GK107 consists of 2 SMX 384 CUDA cores, 32 units of texturing and 16 ROPs. The GPU is running at 900 Mhz and does not benefit from GPU Boost technology, the 1 or 2 GB of DDR3 memory see frequency sets to 891 Mhz and are sent via a 128 bit for a bandwidth bus up to then the 28.5 GB/s. The map takes a format low - profile which monopolisera that a slot and its 65 Watts TDP allows him to escape to power connector, the energy provided by the PCI-Express port, more card is efficient in standby mode it consumes more than 15 Watts.

The outputs GT 640 offer three GeForce video with two Dual-Link DVI ports and a mini-HDMI 1 4A for a fee of $ 99. Many third-party manufacturers and partners of NVIDIA will also offer their own models of references and/or specific with many variants which we reparleront you soon.

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GeForce GTX 670: 4 - Way SLI not supported... for now

NVIDIA will soon bring the compatibility of the GTX 670 with technology 4 - way SLI via an update of drivers.

The GeForce GTX 670 has two bridges SLI on the PCB, this one that suggested that the 4 - way SLI was possible but apparently, according to the PC Perspective website, is currently not the case, 3 - way SLI is operational.

The GPU GK104 GTX 670 being a very close variation of the GTX 680 and the PCB allowing two SLI bridges, there is no which would prevent this multi-GPU technology to function. After contacting officials in NVIDIA our colleagues have learned that 4 - way SLI would be soon supported with a next update of drivers.

When we see that a two GTX 670 SLI is only 2% less efficient and 20% less expensive than a GeForce GTX 690 with a consumption of lower energy, 4 - way SLI is therefore be a tempting solution, if drivers follow course. Case to follow so.

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The GeForce GTX 670 arrives, photos support

This is a secret, NVIDIA is preparing to launch a GeForce GTX 670 very soon and here are the Colorful model that is revealed in photos.

After out graphic card high-end GeForce GTX 680, and announced the very high-quality bi - GPU GTX 690, NVIDIA prepares to complete its range with the GTX 670 embarking a castrée version of the GK104 of its big sisters.

Highly anticipated by many players, the GeForce GTX 670 should not delay in coming the end of its PCBs and is already on different websites: photos of the map. The Colorful manufacturer model can be seen on the Chinese site EXPreview TechPowerup echoed. According to the source, map glue perfectly to the NVIDIA reference design and can be pointed out that the two PCI-e 6-pin connectors are positioned side by side toward the center of the slice and not the card as usual.

This is explained by the use of a particularly short PCB used to GTX 670, the map is then "artificially" extended by a longer carter incorporating a radial fan deported at the front as shown in the photos of the back of the card. The GeForce GTX 670 should be launched during the month of May. Information "informal" as long as NVIDIA did not things.

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Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 GC 2 GB, overclockée and customized

The Galaxy manufacturer launches a new model GTX 680 overclockée plant and equipped with a customized heatpipe, the GeForce GTX 680 GC 2 Go.

Galaxy released a new version of the GeForce GTX 680, called GeForce GTX 680 GC 2 GB, at frequencies GPU overclockées of plant and equipped with a cooling House system.

Thus this new card is his GK104 beat at 1110 Mhz/1176 Mhz in standard/GPU Boost mode against 1006 Mhz/1058 Mhz initially, the 2 GB of GDDR5 remain for their processors 1502 Mhz as recommended by NVIDIA. Custom cooling system consists of a wide radiator finned aluminum crossed by several heat pipes in nickel plated copper, all being cooled by the breath of two fans of 92 mm in diameter, a fairing aluminium enclosing all.

Map is 25.4 cm long and 11.10 cm high, it has two slots and feeds via two connectors PCI-e 6 + 8 pine. Outputs video proposed are identical to those of the reference map to two DVI ports, an HDMI 1 4A taking and a DisplayPort 1.2.

The price and the date of release of this model in France have not yet been specified by the manufacturer.

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EVGA offers GeForce GTX 680 brackets

The American brand EVGA offers high airflow for customers of its GeForce GTX 680 of brackets.

Happy owners of a GeForce GTX the new brand 680 of the EVGA mark, hurry! Indeed, the brand offers free a bracket high airflow at the first 200 purchasers who have a member on the EVGA site account and register their product online.

The offer is valid for customers in Europe and North America and allows for the fastest of them receive a rear bracket with a larger number of vent holes than equipping the reference map to earn up to 3 ° for the GPU cooling.

This bracket will be soon sold other than on the site of the constructor, but for free, it is here that it happens.

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The GeForce GTX 580 that dust and change color

MSI released a new GeForce GTX 580 overclockée, hunting the dust and changing color temperature of the GPU…

The N580GTX Twin Frozr III 15D5 Power Edition/OC (thank you guys from marketing...) is - as its name suggests - overclockée and equipped with a cooling House the "Twin Frozer III" system offering two original innovations.

The map based on GPU GeForce GTX 580 is therefore on-fréquencée factory to 810 MHz for the GPU, 1620 MHz for shaders and 4008 MHz to 1.5 GB of GDDR5 (against 772, 1544 and 4008 MHz for the GTX 580 reference), not what jump to the ceiling.

Is cooling system, provided by a wide radiator crossed several heat pipes copper aluminum all surmounted by two fans of 90 mm which have the particularity of change of colors, from blue to white, when the GPU exceeds the 45 degrees Celsius. "Dust Removal Technology" system fan blades clearing even the dust by turning in the opposite direction for 30 seconds during startup of the machine, thus propelling the flow of air upward instead aspire to the bottom.

Map measures 30.5 cm in length, it occupies two slots, proposes two in Dual Link DVI ports, an HDMI, and a Displayport and consumes according the 260 Watts constructor. It will be available on the French territory the week next to a tariff of €559 with a coupon giving right to the Battlefield 3 game download on the Origin of EA platform.

Here's a video of presentation of the card and its system of cooling operation.

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What chips are hiding in the HD Radeon 7000M and 600 M GeForce?

Changes of names without change of chip generalize for the two giants of the graphics card.

Historically, AMD and Nvidia have always first to ensure that demonstrate the power of their graphics processor to then work on mobile versions of these chips. For example, as the Cypress (Radeon HD 5800 Series) followed by the Redwood (Radeon HD 5600 Series) in AMD/ATi or the GF100 (GeForce 470 and 480) then out GF106 (GeForce 450) at Nvidia. Mobile chips which often marks the end of the development of an architecture optimized to ensure that it consumes still less energy.

As indicated you yesterday, the release of the Radeon HD 7000 will intervene in the coming weeks, it is therefore logical to think that their mobile versions will arrive after. But is not the case this time, the Sunnyvale firm wishing to do the opposite for this series. Last September, a first demonstration was made on a mobile version of the new architecture incorporating a chip engraved in 28 nm. This confirms the will of AMD to be first on the market of mobile phones.

To understand this situation, he must see that TSMC's time to finalise the method of production of 28 nm chips and started only to achieve good yields (according to the skier). You do the same calculation that we, this glue not really with the AMD roadmap which appeared on the Internet, pointing the output of the HD for 7000 series in three weeks. It is therefore a question of rebadging for these new mobile chips, which integrate processor series HD 6000 to ensure this tight planning. The GPU that will be beautiful and well engraved 28 nm... which should simplify the task to the skier, able to get out of the HD Radeon 7000M in times.

What is the most frustrating here, it is that the Radeon HD 5000 have been already rebadgées in HD 6000 in some cases without any performance gain. On the training games, the next generation of top-of-range GPU at 28 nm (Tahiti) move the VLIWs (Very Long Instruction Word) while the previous architecture (Trinity) will still use version 4 of these VLIWs derived from the 6900 HD, the series Cayman. And this while at the same time some 7000 HD will retain compatibility with version 4 of these instructions to be compatible in CrossFire with the Trinity versions. Even if the version 5 of these instructions is likely to go in the trash to keep this homogeneity, these modern training games could ensure a rise of the GPU with the arrival of Direct3D 11. Even if the version 4 and 5 are and will be compatible D3D 11, the next video games more rely more on these new APIs, which could disrupt the next series of AMD, without however creating a gap as important as in the past... Finally we hope.

Table of the Radeon HD mobile our colleague AnandTech

To pass the range HD 7000M 6000M, we can expect to see land three or four models displaying a clock frequency a hair more high and operator of the not expensive GDDR5. 7500M HD can be interesting on paper, with its 480 processors flow - either as well as on the HD 7600M version, but with a 64-bit memory bus interface. What should impair its performance even if the GDDR5 on 64-bit bus could potentially be as fast as the 128-bit GDDR3. We will therefore wait to know the practical performance of these cards to bring to trial them.

To summarize, a third rebadgage of cards in a row is expected for the input and the mid range of the Mobile Radeon HD...

The firm to the Chameleon was silently for its 600 M series. We therefore discover a GeForce 600 M which replace a 500 M without so far have reviewed frequencies increase. In detail, Nvidia has renamed its GeForce GT 555 M GT 635 m... same processor, same number of texture units, same frequency, short, everything like this. Except for the GDDR5, who will have right has a small thrust on the frequency from 3140 GHz to 3600 MHz, providing a little more bandwidth.

In addition, renaming drops new maps down to leave the place to the new environment maps and high-end as the GT 640 M, or even the GT 650 M, even if nothing was announced for the moment. For the price, we also hope the descent of the entry ticket to the same card but with a new name...

Table of our colleague AnandTech for Nvidia cards

As for AMD and its Radeon HD 7000M maps, the 600 M GeForce seem for the moment that consist a marketing repositioning products to make room for new architectures. Nothing very interesting, and we are much more eager to see what future 7970 HD Radeon and GeForce GTX 680 (non-final names) were in the womb. Maps which later gave birth to real new mobile GPUS. As usual, the situation is very difficult to readable for the consumer who has printing buy - wrongly - a map of new generation. Which is always harmful...

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ZOTAC unveils a new GeForce GTS 450

Hong Kong manufacturer Zotac has recently formalizing its GeForce GTS 450, an economic model new energy.

In this bleak period on graphics cards, Zotac throws the veil on its new GeForce GTS 450. This "ECO Edition" should display a lower energy consumption by 33% from the Nvidia reference solution. There is however no miracle since the GTS 450 frequencies are revised downwards.

The GF106 and its 192 stream processors are respectively processors 600 and 1200 MHz (against 783/1566 MHz for the original model). 1024 MB of DDR3 display have a frequency of 667 MHz (900 MHz). A reminder, this VRAM is connected to the GPU via a 128-bit memory bus.

ZOTAC covers its new solution to a heatpipe mono-slot consisting of a simple aluminum heatsink, and a small turbine. This GeForce GTS 450 offers ports DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. ZOTAC did not specify when and how much it had run this ECO Edition.

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NVIDIA GeForce drivers are version 280.26 WHQL

Two weeks after the beta 280.19 version, Nvidia publishes its version 280.26 WHQL drivers. These are the first pilots the 280 series WHQL. Between the beta and the final version no great change.

Changes include the addition of support for GeForce GT 530, GTX 460 SE V2, GTX 580 M and GeForce GT 520 MX. The addition of new notebooks compatible 3D Vision which here is the list: Alienware M17x R3, ASUS G53SX?3DE, ASUS G73JW?3DE, ASUS G74SW?3DE, ASUS G74SE?3DE, Dell XPS 17 L702x, Lenovo IdeaPad Y570, Toshiba Qosmio X770?3D, Toshiba Qosmio F750?3D, Toshiba Satellite P755?3D, Toshiba Satellite P750?3D, Toshiba Satellite P775?3D, Toshiba Satellite P770?3D.

Finally a few profiles of 3D vision compatible games have been added:

Call of Juarez: The CartelDead IslandHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 L.A. NoirePROUNVirtua Tennis 4Pour more beta details relate to our previous news.

The 280.26 drivers are compatible with the GeForce series 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and ION GPUS for desktop computers. The following series mobile GeForce are also supported: 9 M, 8 M, 100 M, 200 M, 300 M, 400 M and 500 M.
They will be compatible with Windows Xp, Vista and Seven in 32-Bit and 64-Bit version.

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NVIDIA GeForce drivers are version 280.26 WHQL

Two weeks after the beta 280.19 version, Nvidia publishes its version 280.26 WHQL drivers. These are the first pilots the 280 series WHQL. Between the beta and the final version no great change.Changes include the addition of support for GeForce GT 530, GTX 460 SE V2, GTX 580 M and GeForce GT 520 MX. The addition of new notebooks compatible 3D Vision which here is the list: Alienware M17x R3, ASUS G53SX?3DE, ASUS G73JW?3DE, ASUS G74SW?3DE, ASUS G74SE?3DE, Dell XPS 17 L702x, Lenovo IdeaPad Y570, Toshiba Qosmio X770?3D, Toshiba Qosmio F750?3D, Toshiba Satellite P755?3D, Toshiba Satellite P750?3D, Toshiba Satellite P775?3D, Toshiba Satellite P770?3D.

Finally a few profiles of 3D vision compatible games have been added:

Call of Juarez: The CartelDead IslandHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 L.A. NoirePROUNVirtua Tennis 4Pour more beta details relate to our previous news.

The 280.26 drivers are compatible with the GeForce series 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and ION GPUS for desktop computers. The following series mobile GeForce are also supported: 9 M, 8 M, 100 M, 200 M, 300 M, 400 M and 500 M.
They will be compatible with Windows Xp, Vista and Seven in 32-Bit and 64-Bit version.

Drivers can be downloaded on the official website here.

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EK announces two new antifreeze for GeForce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generally the antifreeze whole for graphics cards are limited to models that meet the original design proposed by Nvidia or ATI. EK, brand well known in the area of the water cooling, offers a bit of change with the arrival of two antifreeze for models that do not meet the original design proposed by Nvidia.

The first waterblock is GTX 570 and more precisely the model GTX570 the trademark EVGA HD. Reminder, EVGA GTX 570 HD to the particularity of having a Display Port output and to be less long than a classic GTX 570.

The second waterblock is compatible with the GTX 570 and GTX 580 Direct CU II from Asus. Finished the cooling air with three slots in the Direct CU II series. With this dedicated waterblock temperatures will chutées and congestion will be reduced. The owners of these cards will have then more excuses to go grab a Mhz.

These two antifreeze are planned for mid-August at a rate not communicated.

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NVIDIA passes its GeForce drivers version Beta 280.19

As almost every month a new version of the drivers for the GeForce sees the day. The new drivers offered by Nvidia are still in beta.These new drivers bring especially two important things see three with the support of the game Battlefield 3, which is currently in Alpha version for the lucky who can test it.The first important point is support for SLI technology for motherboards AMD certified 970 or 990 FX, 990 X chipset-equipped.The second important point bring these new drivers is the Nvidia 3D Vision who see are numbers increased compatible games. The new 3D Vision compatible games are:
Alice Madness ReturnsRetour to the future (episodes 1-5) Chuang Shi Xi You (????) Dao Jian 2 ??2The Darkness 2Deep BlackDou Zhan Shen ???Dragon Ball OnlineDungeons and Dragons: OnlineGods & Heroes: Rome RisingLeague of Legends ????LEGO Pirates of the CaraïbesLe Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of AngmarLe Lord of the Rings: War in the NorthMarsMight & Magic Heroes VIMount & Blade: WarbandMount & Blade: With Fire and BladeRAGERed Orchestra 2: Heroes of StalingradRise of the ImmortalsRusty HeartsSerious Sam 3: BFEWarhammer 40,000: Space MarineDes profiles 3D existing Vision have been updated for the following games:
Crysis 2: track its classification passed to Excellent. NVIDIA recommends the use of the black v1.9.Deep patch: track its classification passed to compatible 3D Vision.Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition: changes of convergence and classification to compatible 3D Vision.
These new drivers are compatible with the Geforce series 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 as well as the ION GPUS for desktop. They will be compatible with Windows Xp, Vista and Seven in 32-Bit and 64-Bit version.

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GeForce GTX 590 VS Radeon HD 6990: performance of 2012 today!

A few days after the release of the HD 6990, GTX 590 wants to be the response of the Chameleon to AMD Monster. According to NVIDIA this map should be launched more than a month ago, but the brand has chosen to not coming in second on the market to refine its product: one of the stated goals is to do better than HD 6990 at the level of noise.

It almost would feel that this objective is the prank as the Fermi architecture is known for a consumer and a very important thermal dissipation. The simple fact to imagine that the firm to the Chameleon could involve two GF110 on a same PCB without a still more audible than the HD 6990 map could pass for an April fool. And yet this is precisely what NVIDIA claims to have succeeded.

However, compromises were necessary: found a fan in the centre of the map as in AMD, and the frequency of the GPU has the stand down from that of the GTX 580 to remain within acceptable thermal limits. Despite this, the GTX 590 is required such as the the most demanding that we have tested all the time!

But the fact is that the map is silent. Really silent. It is even the more discrete bi - GPU card since the ATI Rage Fury Maxx, exit 12 years ago already. Mission accomplished on the noise, therefore, but remains a key question: is that NVIDIA has of surrender in terms of performance to achieve this result?

Two full GF110 under the hood

Our discussions with the trade mark, it is clear that NVIDIA has always wanted to use two full GF110 on GTX 590. As we have seen with the GTX 580, the GF110 employs 4 GPC Graphics Processing Clusters (), each 4 SM (Streaming Multiprocessors). Each SM contains 32 CUDA cores, 4 texture units and 1 Polymorph engine is a total of 512 CUDA Cores, 64 units of textures and 16 Polymorph engines by GPU.

This set is connected to a 384-bit memory controller that breaks down into six units of 64-bit, which take all 256 MB of GDDR5 to reach 1.5 GB GF110 and therefore 2 x 1.5 GB in the case of the GTX 590. At the other end of the memory controller is six partitions ROP capable of generating eight pixels in 32-bit or 48 pixels per cycle in total.

NVIDIA connects the two GF110 of the 590 GTX with its own PCI Express NF200 bridge to multiplexer interface PCIe 2.0 16 lines at the base in 16 lines per GPU.

GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GTX 580Radeon HD 6990
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon HD 6950
Stream Processors (CUDA Cores)

At the macro level, the GPU is still engraved in 40 nm by TSMC and are about 3 billion transistors on 520 mm2. The GF110 is more complex but also more massive than the Cayman of AMD since the latter did on-board only 2.64 billion transistors in an area of 389 mm2.

The architecture of the GF110 thus was fully preserved, however it cannot not say the same frequency: while the GTX 580 enjoys a GPU to 772 MHz and a memory 1002 MHz, dual-core GTX 590 should respectively only 607 and 853 MHz. Result that performance is not as good as that could have been hoped, even though the relative unimportance: GTX 580 is a map without equivalent, since the HD 6970 is positioned opposite the GTX 570. If HD 6990 displays excellent performance over HD 6970 gain, NVIDIA will therefore may not need as good performance so its 590 GTX is competitive.

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NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 580 M, 570 M

NVIDIA has announced the launch of its new GPU high range for computers laptops, GeForce GTX 570 M and 580 M to replace the GTX 470 M and 485 M. These new graphics cards are based on GPU GF114 (used for the GeForce GTX 560, see this news).

The GTX 580 M is almost identical to the old 485 M except that the GPU frequency going from 575 to 620 MHz and that frequency of calculation units increased from between 1150 and 1240 MHz. Performance should increase by approximately 8%.

The GTX 570 M is more interesting as the GTX 470 M used the former chip GF104, less optimized in thermal report performance/dissipation term. The number of units of calculation passes for 288-336 and frequency increase of 550-575 MHz for the GPU and 1100 and 1150 MHz for calculation units. The frequency of 192-bit GDDR5 memory moves from 1250 to 1500 MHz. Performance should increase by approximately 20% compared to the GTX 470 M.

All usual Nvidia technologies are on supported by these new maps: DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, SLI and Optimus enables to improve the autonomy implementation eve of the GPU for the benefit of the GPU integrated into the processor.

Manufacturers of mobile computers have already announced models using these new mobile maps, for example, the Alienware M18x (18.4 ", GTX 580 M in SLI) in photo below, Clevo P170HM3 (17.3", GTX 580 M) and MSI GT780R (17.3 ", GTX 570 M).

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 and 275 drivers

After the GeForce GTX 560 it in January, Nvidia announced the launch of a new model, the GeForce GTX 560 (without suffix it).

This GeForce GTX 560 can in fact be seen as a GeForce GTX 460 overclockée as it is based on the GPU GF114, a minor revision of the GF104. Like the GTX 460 card has 336 processors flows and a 256-bit with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory bus. Are frequency of 810 MHz for the GPU and 1002 MHz for the memory against 675/800 Mhz for the GTX 460 of base... but it is already in the trade of the GTX 460 overclockées at close frequencies or greater than the GTX 560.

Our colleagues from the computer press were able to test this new GeForce GTX 560 models. Logically map is between the GeForce GTX 460 1 GB and GTX 560 it and becomes a direct competitor of the Radeon HD 6870 which did not really competitor to date. The GeForce GTX 560 is however not able to do better than the Radeon HD 6870, it displays an identical price (€170 for reference maps) and similar performance, which is a bit disappointing since the AMD card is on the market for several months. Nvidia card however has the advantage of more reasonable than the Radeon HD 6870 noise. Models GTX 560 overclockées as the "DirectCU II TOP" of ASUS display with performance of GeForce GTX 560 Ti (15% of frequencies GPU in addition to the 560 overclockée offset the 14% of additional units of calculation it 560).

Quote: As we supposed arrival of GeForce GTX 560 it in January, a model without this suffix was indeed provided by Nvidia, which however waited 4 months to introduce it. This equivalent to a GeForce GTX 460 overclockée will be hard since many very interesting models are already available from 150 to €220. To observe its behavior, we looked at one of the GeForce GTX best-performing 560 launch: Asus GTX 560 DirectCU TOP II.

Read the test of the GeForce GTX 560 on Hardware.fr

In the aftermath, NVIDIA announced its GeForce 275 series drivers. They provide some performance improvements: 6% in Crysis 2 (without AA), 15% in BulletStorm (AA8x) and 8% in Portal 2 (AA4x).  New features are also on the program:

Download automatic and silent profiles SLIMême thing for profiles 3D Vision that will install automatically to the avenirNouvelle graphical user interface for setting or control of the scale of the display on the output HDMI and VGA.

Download drivers Nvidia 275

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NVIDIA: The new GeForce 9 soon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Several manufacturers of graphics cards, the firm to the Chameleon should propose us its new cards as soon as the month of February 2008. Stamped GeForce 9, its new models would be in the same way as the Radeon HD 3800, compatible DirectX10.1, and although obviously incur 4.1 shaders.

All we hope is that the AMD firm with its future chip R700 arrives to return to the Summit and thus compete with Nvidia in terms of performance, in all cases, a beautiful battle in perspective.

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New drivers GeForce 197.75 for series 400

Pending output drivers GeForce g?n?ration 256, an output which is d?cid?ment d?sirer, the firm to the cam?l?on has online version 197.75 of its drivers. It has pass?e Microsoft's WHQL testing and is aimed at the GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards. The nouveaut?s of this version are minimal with the support of the 4 - Way SLI (Quad-SLI) for the GeForce GTX 480 and support of the PC PDB game in Beta version. In the m?me time, these pilots int?grent API NVIDIA PhysX 9.10.0129 version and the version 1.0.9.1 of drivers NVIDIA HD Audio.

The t?l?chargement of these new drivers are d?roule from the servers of NVIDIA by following this link.

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