NVIDIA has managed to optimize its Fermi architecture well and with the GF110 circuit it opened up another 32 CUDA cores without overclocking potential taking any real harm. ASUS’ tailored GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II has now been pushed to mighty 1519 MHz on the GPU.
The impressive overclock was accomplished by overclocker Peter “Shamino” Tan that is currently emplyed by ASUS and often take the more extreme products for a testdrive.
ASUS has, as we’ve reported in the past, equipped the DirectCU II card with a bigger power supply and a bigger cooler. The latter didn’t get any limelight though since it was removed to make room for some exotic cooling. Using liquid nitrogen and tweaked voltages Shamino managed to push the GPU from 782 MHz to 1519 MHz. The overclock was stable enough for a round of 3DMark03, even if the graphics memory was operating at stock frequency.
A very impressive achievement that shows that GF110 has a lot of potential with the cooling and the power supply that keeps up with the rest. ASUS looks to have done a good job with its special model since this is a good bit above what most GeForce GTX 580 cards can do.
Source: XtremeSystems
