Following a brief posting on their website, nVidia has discreetly let slip the possible existence of a GeForce GTX 580 in its latest 261 beta drivers. Don't expect a great revolution from the possible new card, however. We told you last week about the new "tick-tock" strategy adopted by nVidia, which means that GTX 580 might end up essentially being a die-shrunk version of the current GTX 480.Since nVidia doesn't tend to die-shrink solely to reduce chips' power consumption, we can suppose that the new manufacturing process will come alongside either a clock frequency rise for the GPU - which would, we have to admit, be very welcome - or an increase in the number of shader processors.
Source: PCINpact (in French)
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On: 10/31/10
