Tom's Hardware "Official" Review of the GTX 580. Launch day is today folks, even though reviews were popping up last night, get your delicious morsels here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-580-gf110-geforce-gtx-480,2781.html
/Shrug. Doesn't surprise me as its a "flapship" card. People are willing to pay that price, so I'd sell it for as much as I could at launch day too. Now we just wait for ATi's Caymen card at the end of the year (if they don't delay it).
Although they carry a heavy price tag, I'm disappointed in their performace, the 6870 stomps on it in CF scaling and that isn't even their flagship card, once Caymen comes out I will be making a shallow grave for the 580. If I had the money now I would almost be tempted to get a 6870 or at least a CF of it, but I think I can handle just having 1 5870 for now, in general 5870 CF = 6870 CF but 6870's cost less.
The Benchmarks look like its doing just fine in some its ahead or even. The way I look at it is this is what the 480 should of been. As for the Nvidia/AMD wars personaly I'll never own a AMD card. Just the same with people who will never use Nvidia its a choice you make based off personal experience. I'll be picking one of these up for sure this week to put in my new build I'll post up some pics for all the haters *)
So you had a couple bad experiences in the past therefore you cant ever touch an AMD graphics card now? Even though the company is owned by someone else, its probably been many years, technologies have changed completely, and drivers are very far from what they used to be? Both AMD and Nvidia have changed a ton in the past 5 years so I really dont see why anyone would refuse to use one card or another from past experience. Up to today, Nvidia has been horrible for the past 2 years. And with the severe driver issues all the way through the GTX4## time I cant see why anyone would possibly stick with Nvidia and claim they are even close to a decent graphics company. We will see in the next few days I suppose if Nvidia has got its act together and drivers are any better. At least one good thing though is Nvidia finally got Fermi to what they promised 4 years ago
I certainly wouldn't say Nvidia has been horrible by any stretch. I know plenty of tech savy people that only use Nvida and wont touch ATI. Its like this though as a consumer I rarely give a company a second chance. Case in point Ford my wifes mini van had the transmission go out 1k miles after the warranty. It was a known issue with the reverse sun gear, they refused to even cut the cost of the $3500 dollar replacement. Will never buy another Ford again no matter what they make, they could make the first production hover vehicle and I wouldn't touch it period. More to the point she had a Honda Accord, one of the transmission gears went out at roughly 20k miles. Again known issue what did they do, replaced the trany with a new re-egineered version and increased our warranty to 100k miles. Pretty simple as a consumer whos going to get my repeat business. Personaly I've never had a single issue with Nvidia cards, and have had 2 friends send back a combined 5 ATI cards for RMA service. Right now the diffrence in the 2 companies realy doesn't mean much because both products can run any game out without issue. If the day ever came that AMD cards were able to out right play games that Nvidia cards couldn't I could see need for changing. Though I don't realisticly see that ever happening, considering my soon to be backup system. Runs every game on the market on max settings at 19x12 on a 25inch Samsung using a GTX 260 evga superclocked card.
I just ordered a 6850 because the price to performance value is above anything Nvidia offers. I haven't owned an ATI card for 10 years and I look forward to trying out this new card. If ATI can continue to stay this competitive I may not go back.
Let us know (probably in a different thread) any issues or odd crashes and such you run into with the AMD card. BTW, AMD bought ATI quite a while ago but I think the HD5000 series was the first card series to be fully made under AMD and did not already start when the company was still ATI. So maybe thats why the 5k series and now the 6k series have been so good? But I guess the really good cards started at the 4k series and have so far been large optimizations with each gen up to now. Meh.