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MSI N580GTX M2D15D5 Review– A Reference Card with Some Interesting Extras

NVIDIA’s latest GF110 flagship (that is the GTX 580), has a total of 512 stream processors (or CUDA cores, as NVIDIA likes to call them these days). That’s a bunch more than the GF100 (GTX480), which had to settle with “only” 480 stream processors by the time of its initial launch. Put simply, GeForce GTX 580 is a refinement product that performs better in most -if not all- aspects compared to the GTX 480, NVIDIA’s previous highest-end GPU. You can see the comparison between the two in our first review on the GTX 580.

Graphics card manufacturers have been releasing their GTX 580 products into the market, including MSI with their N580GTX M2D15D5 here. It’s still based on NVIDIA’s reference design, which means that it should be quite identical to other reference-based GTX 580s in terms of performance. Fortunately, MSI added a little something to make the card stand out a bit amongst the crowd. Let’s take a look at the technical specs first.

Specification

	NVIDIA GTX 580	MSI N580GTX M2D15D5
Codename	GF110	GF110
Fabrication Process	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	3 Billion	3 Billion
Die Size	320 mm²	320 mm²
Core Clock	772 MHz	772 MHz
Stream Processors (CUDA Core)	512	512
Shader Clock	1544 MHz	1544 MHz
Texture Units	64	64
ROPs	48	48
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Size	1536 MB	1536 MB
Memory Clock (effective)	4008 MHz	4008 MHz
Memory Interface	384-bit	384-bit
DirectX Version	11	11
Shader Model	5	5
Power Connectors	8-pin + 6-pin	8-pin + 6-pin
Min Recommended Power Supply	600 Watt	600 Watt
Bus Support	PCIe 2.1 x16	PCIe 2.1 x16
TDP	244 Watt	244 Watt
GPU Thermal Threshold	97 C	97 C

As seen in the above table, MSI uses NVIDIA’s standard reference specification for the GTX 580. Everything is similar, including the core, shader, and memory frequencies.

ATI RADEON HD 6870

 

 

AMD Radeon HD 6870, graphics card generasi terbaru dari AMD (ATI) baru saja dirilis hari Jumat yang lalu. Antusiasme user terhadap graphics card ini tergolong besar mengingat mereka ingin tahu bagaimana kinerja graphics card ini dalam menghadapi graphics card dari NVIDIA, terutama NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB. Selain itu, user juga ingin mengetahui bagaimana kinerja graphics card DirectX 11 generasi kedua dari AMD (ATI) ini dibandingkan generasi sebelumnya, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series.
Tentu Anda sudah melihat bagaimana kinerja AMD Radeon HD 6870 pada artikel kami sebelumnya. Kinerja AMD Radeon HD 6870 dengan clock reference memang tergolong memuaskan pada game. Lalu, apakah kinerja ini bisa ditingkatkan lagi? Tentu saja bisa. Salah satu cara mudah meningkatkan kinerjanya adalah dengan meng-overclock graphics card ini.

Spesifikasi

	AMD Radeon HD 6870	AMD Radeon HD 6850
Codename	Barts XT	Barts Pro
Fabrication Process	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	1.7 Milyar	1.7 Milyar
Die Size	225 mm2	225 mm2
Core Clock	900 MHz	775 MHz
Stream Processors	1120	960
Texture Units	56	48
ROPs	32	32
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Size	1024 MB	1024 MB
Memory Clock (effective)	4200 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit
DirectX Version	11	11
Shader Model	5	5
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	6-pin
Min Recommended Power Supply	500 Watt	500 Watt
Bus Support	PCIe 2.1 x16	PCIe 2.1 x16

Sumber : http://www.jagatreview.com/2010/10/review-overclocking-amd-radeon-hd-6870/