FRONTPAGE Nvidia releases its latest GPU, meet the GTX 590!

Overclockers.com · Mar 24, 2011

Today Nvidia has released its much anticipated flagship card, the GTX 590. This video card consists of 2 GPU's on one PCB and can drive a 3 monitor setup in 3D surround by itself. Nvidia touts this as the most powerful DX11 graphics card ever built.

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tool_462 · Mar 24, 2011

Oh noes, the lastest one?

MasterNater · Mar 24, 2011

tool_462 said:
Oh noes, the lastest one?

hokiealumnus · Mar 24, 2011

Now that's funny. Fixing; thanks guys.

Shelnutt2 · Mar 24, 2011

The link is also messed up, the link has "lastest" instead of "latest"

hokiealumnus · Mar 24, 2011

Shelnutt2 said:
The link is also messed up, the link has "lastest" instead of "latest"

Aaaand fixed. Thank you; again. What would we do without you guys?

Artas1984 · Mar 26, 2011

A well, once again "the most powerful" video card is released, just another day in the office.
This will just continue on and on.

JonSimonzi · Mar 26, 2011

I'm behind the loop. Is this the equivalent of GTX580 SLI?

Artas1984 · Mar 26, 2011

JonSimonzi said:
I'm behind the loop. Is this the equivalent of GTX580 SLI?

It is stated to be 1,5 times faster than GTX580, which means it can be as good as SLI GTX580, since SLI does not mean 100 % performance boost.

EarthDog · Mar 26, 2011

580 SLI beats it out across the board.

Bobnova · Mar 26, 2011

HD6990 beats it if both are at stock clocks, too.

JonSimonzi · Mar 26, 2011

Am I just thinking about it wrong? Last time I paid attention to multi-gpu cards, it was pretty much 2 cores from a current card jammed into one package

9800GX2 = 2x 8800GTS (G92)
4870X2 = 2x 4870's
etc...

So I assume then that these new era of multi GPU cards use chips specifically designed for them? So you can't make the correlation that GTX590 = 2x GTX580/GTX570/GTX560/whatever?

EarthDog · Mar 26, 2011

Its 2 580's with lower clocks.

GTX 295 was a hybrid of 285 and 275 iirc...

Crazy_Catz · Mar 26, 2011

Looks cool, but as soon as I buy it, the new one will be out a week later

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freeagent · Mar 27, 2011

EarthDog said:
Its 2 580's with lower clocks.

GTX 295 was a hybrid of 285 and 275 iirc...

The 295 was like 2x 280s with the memory and interface from the 260, 275's didnt come until a year or more later.

EarthDog · Mar 27, 2011

Ahh, yes... thanks. I knew it was a hybrid.

freeagent · Mar 27, 2011

To put things into perspective to see how far along hardware has come in the last couple of years, the 295 was top dog for along time, it traded blows with the "other guys" in a few games, but whatever. Flashback to today, the 295 is almost as strong as a 570, and if the 590 is like 2x 570s, that makes the 295 1/3 as strong as the 590, thats pretty redickerous

I hate being terrible with math :rain:

So instead, I guesstimate!

TheQuadFather · Mar 27, 2011

to you guys above debating the power, i find the number of shader cores in Nvidia cards makes a good enough guesstimate on there relative performance, just how my gts 450 ( 192 sp ) is roughly the same as a 260 gtx ( 192/216 sp )

False Christian · Mar 27, 2011

The GTX 590 is clocked to low to be any competition for 2xGTX 580's or the champ: the Radeon HD 6990. :beer:

Audioaficionado · Mar 27, 2011

Well if you only have one full 16x bandwidth 16x slot, this might come in handy.

We here at OC Forums shouldn't be complaining about under clocked cards. We all know what we have to do about about these kind of issues

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