Hottest GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 580

Overview

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580 is the world’s fastest DirectX 11 GPU. With screaming performance and an innovative new thermal design, GeForce GTX 580 rips through the latest games while running quieter than the previous generation. GeForce GTX 580 – don’t play DX11 without it.

Built for DirectX 11 GeForce GTX 580 delivers massive DirectX 11 tessellation performance so you can crank-up the gaming realism with incredibly detailed environments and characters.

TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X.® 2 image captured on NVIDIA GPU provided by UBISOFT.

Surround Gaming Harness the graphics power of GTX 580 in SLI to experience panoramic gaming across three screens with NVIDIA Surround technology.

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Play in 3D Breakthrough the boundaries of your screen and enter a new dimension with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology for games, videos, and photos.

Features

• Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Support
  DirectX 11 GPU with Shader Model 5.0 support designed for ultra high performance in the new API’s key graphics feature, GPU-accelerated tessellation.
• NVIDIA® PhysX® Technology
  Full support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
• NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Ready¹
  GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D. In addition, you can watch 3D movies and 3D digital photographs in eye popping, crystal-clear quality.
• NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Surround Ready²
  Expand your games across three displays in full stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate “inside the game” experience with the power of NVIDIA 3D Vision and SLI technologies. NVIDIA Surround also supports triple screen gaming with non-stereo displays.
• NVIDIA® SLI® Technology³
  Industry leading NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling for the world’s premier gaming solution.
• NVIDIA® CUDA™ Technology
  CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding tasks such as video transcoding, physics simulation, ray tracing, and more, delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.
• 32x Anti-aliasing Technology
  Lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 32x sample rates obliterates jagged edges.
• NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology⁴
  The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.
• PCI Express 2.0 Support
  Designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offering the highest data transfer speeds for the most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support.
• Dual-link DVI Support
  Able to drive industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560×1600 and with support for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP).
• HDMI 1.4a Support⁵
  Support for HDMI 1.4a including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D support, x.v.Color, HDMI Deep Color, and 7.1 digital surround sound.

1 – NVIDIA 3D Vision requires 3D Vision glasses and a 3D Vision-Ready monitor. See www.nvidia.com/3dvision for more information.
2 – NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround require two or more graphics cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, 3D Vision glasses and three matching 3D Vision-Ready displays. See www.nvidia.com/surround for more information.
3 – A GeForce GTX 580 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 580 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different) with the same frame buffer size. SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
4 – Supported video software is required to experience certain features. Visit www.nvidia.com for more details.
5 – Blu-ray 3D playback requires the purchase of a compatible software player from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Corel, or Sonic. Upgrade your GPU to full 3D capability with NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, enabling 3D gaming, picture viewing and 3D web video streaming. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.