Nvidia has officially unveiled ‘the world’s fastest DirectX11 GPU’ – the GeForce GTX 580. The GTX 580 sports 512 CUDA cores, 64 SPUs (Special Function Units) and has 1.5GB of memory. The core of the card is clocked at 772 MHz and the Shader core is clocked at 1.5GHz, while the memory is clocked at 4 GHz.

OpenGL 4.0 introduces a better support for GPU and an advanced tessalation, which breaks a model into smaller patches or surfaces for better handling and rendering. The OpenGL standard, when adapted to the version 4.0, is presumed to match the qualities of that of DirectX 11.