Inno3D Geforce GTX 580 HAWK Pro Reviews

Benchmarking with a variety of modern games has revealed a truth; for single-monitor gaming with a GeForce GTX 580, 3GB of GDDR5 memory is overkill. At resolutions of up to 2,560x1,600 with ultra-high image quality settings, it's tough to distinguish between a stock-clocked GTX 580 armed with a 1.5GB or a 3GB frame buffer - both deliver near-identical performance across a range of current games. A pointless product, then? Not quite. Taking NVIDIA's fastest GPU and attaching one of the largest servings of GDDR5 memory currently available on a gaming card is a recipe for bragging rights, and extreme users connecting two or more cards in SLI for niche configurations such as 3D Vision Surround may find that multiple GPUs benefit from a large, shared frame buffer.