GTX 590 series announced by nVidia

[Tatsujin]

News on their official site. It's nice to see nVidia pushing it hardcore.

Not like anyone will get this card, but the benchmarks should be pretty damn crazy with two GPU's in one video card.

Specifications.

[TMRNetShark]

So people can SLI this card to have... 6 GBs of video RAM? That's more than I have in regular RAM...

Oh.. and $500+ price point? How fast is that card gonna be overtaken in the next year?

[vuzedome]

AMD 6990 is still the one to get, if you don't mind voiding your warranty, but I recall some manufacturers consider extending the warranty to cover the "switch" as well.

[Tatsujin]

So people can SLI this card to have... 6 GBs of video RAM? That's more than I have in regular RAM...

Oh.. and $500+ price point? How fast is that card gonna be overtaken in the next year?

Honestly the whole idea of this card is the dual GPU's and that's beyond insane. I don't know how much heat does this thing generates, but its far better than the 400 and 200 series for sure. Rather than getting two GTX 580's for SLI which would cost like roughly a thousand dollars, you can just go with the GTX 590 (one card) and be worry free about SLI feature.

Anyways, I'm happy with my two GTX 560's. They're incredibly amazing. I run Crysis like cake and chocolate. Dead Space 2, Mafia 2 and other high end games are pretty smooth with those two video cards.

Edit - I forgot to mention, other than PhysX technology, GTX 500 series does bring a new feature to the table which is Tessellation. Does ATI have this feature?

[Gamerzhell]

Benchmarks are showing this is about on par with AMD's 6990 (give or take a few percent in each test). Though the 3gb VRAM will really choke the GTX590 at hyper resolutions.

The GTX590 doesn't seem to overclock that well. AMD has come out on top this time i'm thinking.

[Tatsujin]

Benchmarks are showing this is about on par with AMD's 6990 (give or take a few percent in each test). Though the 3gb VRAM will really choke the GTX590 at hyper resolutions.

The GTX590 doesn't seem to overclock that well. AMD has come out on top this time i'm thinking.

Where did you get your sources from?

[TMRNetShark]

The 6990 is the better of the two I think as well because of the overclocking. Apparently there are just two 6870 cores in the 6990 that can be over clocked to the 6870 specs. Crossfire two 6990 OC'ed and you got yourself a quad 6870 setup.

[Pentium100]

I don't know how much heat does this thing generates, but its far better than the 400 and 200 series for sure.

The specs say that the card uses max 365W of power. So those 365W come out as heat.

Dead Space 2

It runs quite well on my 3 year old ATI HD2900XT on 1600x1200.

Edit - I forgot to mention, other than PhysX technology, GTX 500 series does bring a new feature to the table which is Tessellation. Does ATI have this feature?

Yes, AMD started it by including Tesselation support in the HD2x00 series 3 years ago.

[Tatsujin]

I don't know how much heat does this thing generates, but its far better than the 400 and 200 series for sure.

The specs say that the card uses max 365W of power. So those 365W come out as heat.

Dead Space 2

It runs quite well on my 3 year old ATI HD2900XT on 1600x1200.

Edit - I forgot to mention, other than PhysX technology, GTX 500 series does bring a new feature to the table which is Tessellation. Does ATI have this feature?

Yes, AMD started it by including Tesselation support in the HD2x00 series 3 years ago.

Oh okay, I didn't know that.

The card so far is quieter than the 6990 and does better with AA mode turned on. With 3GB vs 4GB, the ATI does have the upper hand in that area. The ATI 6990 uses less power to my understanding?

[Proin Drakenzol]

Cool as it looks I think I'll stick with my ATi 5970. Which also has dual GPUs.

[TMRNetShark]

I don't know how much heat does this thing generates, but its far better than the 400 and 200 series for sure.

The specs say that the card uses max 365W of power. So those 365W come out as heat.

Dead Space 2

It runs quite well on my 3 year old ATI HD2900XT on 1600x1200.

Edit - I forgot to mention, other than PhysX technology, GTX 500 series does bring a new feature to the table which is Tessellation. Does ATI have this feature?

Yes, AMD started it by including Tesselation support in the HD2x00 series 3 years ago.

Oh okay, I didn't know that.

The card so far is quieter than the 6990 and does better with AA mode turned on. With 3GB vs 4GB, the ATI does have the upper hand in that area. The ATI 6990 uses less power to my understanding?

Both are hooked up to two 8-pin connectors for... 150 watts? As for which card uses more or less, I would say the ATI uses more since it has more memory. I think most PSUs today wouldn't handle that much power. You'd need at least... 750 or 800 watt PSU? If you SLI or Crossfire those two cards, I wouldn't even think that a 1000 watt PSU would handle that much wattage needed.

[tomoya-kun]

Can my 1000 watt PSU handle that?

[Tatsujin]

I don't know how much heat does this thing generates, but its far better than the 400 and 200 series for sure.

The specs say that the card uses max 365W of power. So those 365W come out as heat.

Dead Space 2

It runs quite well on my 3 year old ATI HD2900XT on 1600x1200.

Edit - I forgot to mention, other than PhysX technology, GTX 500 series does bring a new feature to the table which is Tessellation. Does ATI have this feature?

Yes, AMD started it by including Tesselation support in the HD2x00 series 3 years ago.

Oh okay, I didn't know that.

The card so far is quieter than the 6990 and does better with AA mode turned on. With 3GB vs 4GB, the ATI does have the upper hand in that area. The ATI 6990 uses less power to my understanding?

Both are hooked up to two 8-pin connectors for... 150 watts? As for which card uses more or less, I would say the ATI uses more since it has more memory. I think most PSUs today wouldn't handle that much power. You'd need at least... 750 or 800 watt PSU? If you SLI or Crossfire those two cards, I wouldn't even think that a 1000 watt PSU would handle that much wattage needed.

From what nVidia's site says, 700 watt minimum for one GTX 590.

Can my 1000 watt PSU handle that?

It should be able to handle either two of the ATI's or two of the GTX models.

[sdedalus83]

The problem with this is that two HD6950s run right with both dual GPU cards and can be had for about $400 if you look hard, all while running quieter and using less power.

[NaRu]

The card isnt worth the price. The performance you get out of one card isnt what most people are looking for. People who have smaller cases and wants to have 3D surround vision should get this card. If you are looking for a card to play on a single monitor with highest settings possible a 570 is more then enough to get the job done. Most people don't have 30" monitors that support resolution 2560x1440 either.

Im going to be waiting for the 600 series before I get another video card.

[Lupin]

I LOLed

[Tatsujin]

Ew. Okay, this one is a failure. I still wonder who actually gets those big cards and for what reason. I honestly couldn't run Metro 2033 at maximum video caption with my 2x GTX 560 SC. I did with Crysis 2. Maybe because DX11 is not out yet for Crysis 2?

[tomoya-kun]

Ew. Okay, this one is a failure. I still wonder who actually gets those big cards and for what reason. I honestly couldn't run Metro 2033 at maximum video caption with my 2x GTX 560 SC. I did with Crysis 2. Maybe because DX11 is not out yet for Crysis 2?

Maybe Metro 2033 is less efficient with graphics card.

[vuzedome]

The 590 isn't really geared towards over-clocking, it's more of a one-stop solution for super performance in one card instead of two.

But if you're really going for a 3 monitor setup then go with AMD's 6990. 

[Lavo_2]

You know, I wonder how it managed to blow up during testing.