NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 TDP is 244W, includes 128 TMU, Benchmarks Leaked

Chinese website eNet has filled in some missing information – notably TDP and TMU count. 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. ...

November 3, 2010 Â· 2 min Â· 373 words Â· Omid Farhang

Radeon HD 6870, 6850 break cover

The time for rumors and speculations is drawing to a close—as far as AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 are concerned, at least. These two next-generation graphics cards are churning away in Damage Labs as we speak, and for the first time, we can bring you official, genuine pictures of them. Here’s the 6870… …and its little brother, the Radeon HD 6850: ...

October 19, 2010 Â· 1 min Â· 68 words Â· Omid Farhang