Friday, March 25, 2011

NVIDIA's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 emerges, can't slay the Radeon HD 6990 titan

1,024 total CUDA cores, 94 ROPs, and 3GB of GDDR5 RAM on board. Yup, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is indeed a pair of GTX 580 chips spliced together, however power constraints have meant that each of those chips is running at a tamer pace that their single-card variant. The core clock speed is down to 607MHz, shaders are only doing 1.2GHz, and the memory clocks in at 3.4GHz. Still, there's a ton of grunt under that oversized shroud and reviewers have put it to the test against AMD's incumbent single-card performance leader, the Radeon HD 6990. Just like the GTX 590, it sports a pair of AMD's finest GPUs and costs a wallet-eviscerating $699. Alas, after much benchmarking, testing, and staring at extremely beautiful graphics, the conclusion was that AMD retains its title. But only just. And, as Tech Report points out, the GTX 590 has a remarkably quiet cooler for a heavy duty pixel pusher of its kind. Dive into the reviews below to learn more, or check the new card out on video after the break.

Read - AnandTech
Read - HardOCP
Read - Tech Report
Read - PC Perspective
Read - Guru 3D
Read - X-bit labs
Read - Hot Hardware
Read - techPowerUp!
Read - TechSpot





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  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    not lloking good green team. from what i can see the 6990 is better at higher resolutions and nobody would be buying this to play at anything less than 1920x1080. And in my country atleast the 6990 is cheaper than the GTX 590. looks like i will be changing from nvidia to ati. dont care about loyalty just performance. and ati is where its at. maybe in the future the drivers might get better but so will the ATI drivers. That extra 1gb of memory in the 6990 (4gb total) might be the culprit in those extra few frames in the benchmarks as the GTX 590 has 3GB.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM

    did you see the tester? man i wanna break his head you know not being able to own a graphics card like this makes you hate with a passion so sorry andrew..... loser*

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