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well it's become a bit of a tradition for me to take the latest and greatest

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graphics cards and uh compare them

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against their peers or against their predecessors in terms of their physical

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stature so this is the very latest from NVIDIA the GTX 580 so this is an MSI

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card this is a reference card so every 580 that is available immediately after

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the launch of this GPU will be pretty pretty much exactly like this one okay

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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

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can always check out the unboxing so we're going to do a length comparison

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here and uh in order to facilitate that

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we're going to flip the cards over onto their backs so we're going to compare it against the GTX

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480 which uh you may already see some similarities with in terms of the

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overall layout of the PCB in fact there are some parts that are quite clearly

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just you know reused you know like here

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looks pretty similar to here and uh as a

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matter of fact the layout of the RAM chips as well as the GPU is quite quite

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similar as well so uh what we're going to discover in just a moment is that

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these two cards happen to be this is the 480 right now just over 10 1/2 in in

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length each so we're going to have a look at the GTX

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580 and it is exactly the same length

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now how does this compare to the latest and greatest from the red team bearing

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in mind the date of this video so uh not

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that I'm saying anything about the latest and greatest from ATI but this is

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the 5870 which is currently the latest and greatest and it is just a hair over

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11 in itself with that uh shroud

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Batmobile shroud thing it's got going on like 11 and a like an whatever that is

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an eighth of an inch or something like that so that is the uh physical layout

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of these cards in terms of connectors the GTX 580 has exactly the same

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connectors as the GTX 480 so you can see that from the back

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they look pretty much exactly the same

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except that one has fingerprints all over it from being used on various test

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benches over and over and over again and the other one is quite clean because I'm

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just getting started with it so thank you for checking out my length

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comparison of the GTX 580 and the GTX 480 and don't forget to subscribe to

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Linus Tech tips thank you for watching