well it's become a bit of a tradition for me to take the latest and greatest
graphics cards and uh compare them
against their peers or against their predecessors in terms of their physical
stature so this is the very latest from NVIDIA the GTX 580 so this is an MSI
card this is a reference card so every 580 that is available immediately after
the launch of this GPU will be pretty pretty much exactly like this one okay
so I'm just giving you sort of a couple views of the card here if you want to see the whole thing in closer detail you
can always check out the unboxing so we're going to do a length comparison
here and uh in order to facilitate that
we're going to flip the cards over onto their backs so we're going to compare it against the GTX
480 which uh you may already see some similarities with in terms of the
overall layout of the PCB in fact there are some parts that are quite clearly
just you know reused you know like here
looks pretty similar to here and uh as a
matter of fact the layout of the RAM chips as well as the GPU is quite quite
similar as well so uh what we're going to discover in just a moment is that
these two cards happen to be this is the 480 right now just over 10 1/2 in in
length each so we're going to have a look at the GTX
580 and it is exactly the same length
now how does this compare to the latest and greatest from the red team bearing
in mind the date of this video so uh not
that I'm saying anything about the latest and greatest from ATI but this is
the 5870 which is currently the latest and greatest and it is just a hair over
11 in itself with that uh shroud
Batmobile shroud thing it's got going on like 11 and a like an whatever that is
an eighth of an inch or something like that so that is the uh physical layout
of these cards in terms of connectors the GTX 580 has exactly the same
connectors as the GTX 480 so you can see that from the back
they look pretty much exactly the same
except that one has fingerprints all over it from being used on various test
benches over and over and over again and the other one is quite clean because I'm
just getting started with it so thank you for checking out my length
comparison of the GTX 580 and the GTX 480 and don't forget to subscribe to
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