CeBIT 2011: At the Sparkle booth
The manufacturer is not skimping on video card production this year either.
Sparkle has also come up with several new features, such as the one a few days ago presented GeForce GTX 580. All relevant technical information about this product can be found in the linked news. However, the GeForce GTX 570 Single-Slot version attracted more interest. Here, the GF110 graphics processor, as well as the other components, is cooled by a thin solution that takes up one card slot. The custom cooler is accompanied by a custom-designed printed circuit board (PCB) as well as a smaller amount of tuning where the clock of the GF480 GPU, which hides 110 CUDA cores, has been raised from 732 MHz to 752 MHz. The 1.280 MB GDDR5 memory is connected to the graphics processor via a 320-bit data bus at an unchanged frequency.
In addition to the above, the manufacturer is further strengthening the Caliber series. It’s worth mentioning here the gold-colored, slightly modified GeForce GTX 580, christened Captain. Sparkle left the reference cooler here, but changed the composition of the video outputs on the back panel to allow the card to cope with multiple monitors at once. In light of this, two DVI-I and three Mini-DisplayPorts have been added, allowing up to five displays to display current content.
The third special idea is the GeForce GTS 450 model with passive cooling. The picture clearly shows the manufacturer's solution, where four heat pipes conduct the heat generated from the GF106 graphics processor and transfer it to the dense aluminum rib. The manufacturer's logo can also be removed on top of the slats. The specifications have not changed, so 1 GB of GDDR5 memory is still connected to the GPU via a 128-bit data bus. Two DVI-I and one Mini-HDMI ports are on the back.
No brain-tuned model could be left out of the cast, so now comes the following. In the present case, it is a GeForce GTX 560 Ti product in which the clock signal of the GF114 GPU has been subjected to a thorough overdrive, resulting in a ticking clock signal at around 1.000 MHz. No data was provided by the manufacturer on the frequency of the GDDR5 memory chips present in unchanged amounts, but they probably did not float the tuning either. In addition to its strength, this card also attracted attention with its appearance, as it was described as very unusual, with cooling with two fans and copper heat pipes. In terms of video outputs, the situation is the same as with the previous product, i.e. two DVI-I and one Mini-HDMI are on the back.
The line is still not over, as Sparkle has, of course, also exhibited solutions that differ from the reference solutions solely and exclusively in terms of cooling. These include, for example, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti and the GeForce GTS 450 shown in the images below. However, the GeForce GTX 580, which features Arctic Cooling’s three-fan chiller, has undergone several modifications. The manufacturer also used a factory overclocking here, raising the clock of the GF110 graphics processor from 772 MHz to 810 MHz.
