NVIDIA finishes GeForce GTX 580 production

[siopao1984]

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An inevitable day has come as a part of the whole out with the old, in with the new regime as NVIDIA cease production of their previous generation top dog single GPU offering, the well regarded GeForce GTX 580.This is the card that put fermi in a better light and proved that this previously ill received architecture had a lot of potential lurking within. Using the second-gen 40nm GF110 fermi chip, the GTX 580 produced noticably more efficient performance-per-watt over its GeForce 480 (GF100) predecessor and made a lot of gamers, overclockers and general enthusiasts rather happy chappies.

When launched in November 2010, this card retained its position as the fastest single GPU card right up until AMD responded with the HD 7900 series. Now having reached its EOL status, this marks the card as having been on the market for just over 1 year and 5 months - quite a good run indeed.With the above said and done, NVIDIA's new 28nm Kepler based GTX 680 is doing a great job as a replacement with adoption rates looking super strong. Remaining GTX 580 inventories will continue to be floating about for a little while as they gradually get filtered out through the market.Source: SweClockers

Read more: NVIDIA finishes GeForce GTX 580 production by VR-Zone.com

[harhar]

Now this is goodbye but there is a history to remember.

[thewicked46]

hoping for a lower price

[EarlZ]

One of the greatest nvidia cards made, took competitor its current gen card to beat it.

[raptors2005]

prices better drop plz... =)

[mAlD|tO]

expecting to drop the price..

[bim27142]

hhmmm... something's not so right with nvidia... they put this to EOL yet they are having trouble coping with the demand for their current generation... i've read somewhere nga nag nihit kuno sa market ang 6xx series hasta ang GT640...

now where the heck is GTX660ti?