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ZOTAC GTX580 1.5GB Review Posted on: 23.01.2011 19:49:23 Experience the world’s fastest graphics processor for a phenomenal gaming experience with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 580 graphics card. The ZOTAC ®GeForce® GTX 580 graphics card takes gaming to unmatched levels of immersion with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology for cinematic stereoscopic 3D visuals when paired with 3D Vision™ compatible hardware and 3D-capable displays for a surreal gaming experience. NVIDIA® PhysX® technology enables greater in-game realism for more dynamic and realistic interaction in supported titles with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 580 graphics card. NVIDIA® SLI™ and 3D Vision™ Surround readiness enables up to three ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 580 graphics cards to work to drive up to three monitors for a perfect blend of record-shattering performance and immersion. 3D Graphics •Full Microsoft® DirectX® 11 Shader Model 5.0 support: o NVIDIA PolyMorph Engine with distributed HW tessellation engines •BC6H and BC7 texture compression formats •Gather4 extensions •OpenGL 4.1 support •Advanced image quality features: o 32× coverage sample antialiasing •Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling •16× angle independent anisotropic filtering •128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with antialiasing; 32-bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending •Interactive ray tracing support •Full-speed frame buffer blending •Full-speed FP16 texture filtering •Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and zdata •Support for normal map compression •Adaptive z-cull •Early-Z GPU Computing •NVIDIA CUDA™ technology—allows the GPU cores to provide performance improvements for applications such as video transcoding, gaming, ray tracing, and physics. API support includes: o CUDA C •CUDA C++ •DirectCompute 5.0 •OpenCL •Java, Python, and Fortran •Third Generation Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) o 32 CUDA cores per SM •Dual Warp Scheduler simultaneously schedules and dispatches instructions from two independent warps •64 KB of RAM with a configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1 cache •Second Generation Parallel Thread Execution ISA o Unified Address Space with Full C++ Support •Optimized for OpenCL and DirectCompute •Full IEEE 754-2008 32-bit and 64-bit precision •Full 32-bit integer path with 64-bit extensions •Memory access instructions to support transition to 64-bit addressing •Improved Performance through Predication •Improved Memory Subsystem o NVIDIA Parallel DataCacheTM hierarchy with Configurable L1 and Unified L2 Caches •Greatly improved atomic memory operation performance •NVIDIA GigaThreadTM Engine o 10x faster application context switching •Concurrent kernel execution •Out of order thread block execution Nvidia Technology •NVIDIA SLI® technology—patented hardware and software technology allows up to four NVIDIA GeForce GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today’s top games. •NVIDIA PhysX™ technology—allows advanced physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU. •NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Ready— GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA 3D Vision, bringing a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience to the PC. •NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround™ Ready—scale games across 3 panels by leveraging the power of multiple GPUs in an NVIDIA SLI configuration. Combine with 3D Vision technology for the ultimate 3 panel stereoscopic 3D gaming experience. Advanced Display Functionality •Two pipelines for dual independent display •Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560×1600 •Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85 Hz •HDMI 1.4a support including GPU accelerated Blu-ray 3D support, x.v.Color, HDMI Deep Color, and 7.1 digital surround sound. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details. •DisplayPort 1.1a support •HDCP support up to 2560×1600 resolution on all digital outputs •10-bit internal display processing, including support for 10-bit scan out •Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling Video • NVIDIA® Pure Video® HD technology with VP4 programmable video processor •Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later) •Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback) •Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing •Noise reduction •Edge enhancement •Bad edit correction •Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) •High-quality scaling •Motion Compensation •Video color correction •Dynamic contrast enhancement and color stretch Digital Audio •Support for the following audio modes: o Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), MPEG2/MPEG4 AAC •Data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz, and 192 KHz •Word sizes of 16bit, 20bit, and 24bit Power Management Technology •Advanced power and thermal management for optimal acoustics, power, and performance based on usage: •ASPM power management •Adaptive Clocking •Adaptive Power States •Advanced fan control •Power and temperature monitoring
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