GTX 590 Design and Specs Leaked

March 14, 2011 Matt Ring News, Video Cards 41

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Today, members at XtremeSystems have posted slides containing the specifications and design of NVIDIA’s newest dual-GPU graphics card, the GTX 590. These slides are rumored to be from a NVIDIA partner presentation.

These slides present a card with 3 GB of DDR5 memory and dual-vapor chamber heatsink (similar to the HD 6990’s cooling). One neat feature is the removable cover of the heatsink, which allows for easy cleaning and re-application of TIM. Other notable features include a 12-layer, 2 oz. copper PCB, 10-phase GPU power supply and an onboard PCIE x16 bridge chip.

Leaked GTX 590 Slide (Courtesy XtremeSystems.org)
Leaked GTX 590 Slide (Courtesy XtremeSystems.org)

Later, a slide showing the GTX 590 specs was posted:

Leaked GTX 590 Specs Slide (Courtesy XtremeSystems.org)
Leaked GTX 590 Specs Slide (Courtesy XtremeSystems.org)

This card is NVIDIA’s response to the latest HD 6990 card from AMD. Let’s compare the HD 6990 and the rumored GTX 590 specs side by side to see how they stack up:

GPUHD 6990GTX 590
GPGPU Technology3072 ALU Stream Processors1024 CUDA Cores
Memory4 GB DDR53 GB DDR5
Power ConnectorsDual 8-PinDual 8-Pin
TDP375 – 450 W365 W
Length12.5″11″

The real test will be head to head performance, which will have to wait until the GTX 590 is released, likely before the end of the month. Stay tuned for more details as they come in.

– Matt Ring (mdcomp)

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EarthDog

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#1 Mar 14, 2011

Isnt that the same cooler in the 580/570? (vapor chamber?)

And heh, cant wait for this monster. If it consumes less power than the 6990 like those slides say... VERY interesting!

EDIT: Im confused. The coolers on the 6990 also use phase like the 570/580? The article mentions, “phase change TIM”. but not phase on the heatsinks/pipes like the 570/580?

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HaVoK C89

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#2 Mar 14, 2011

SO AWESOME!!!! Still....I wouldve thought they'd change up the fan design or something....

It'll prolly be a good $900 i bet.

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MasterNater

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#3 Mar 15, 2011

These bad boys can be used in SLI, correct?

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HaVoK C89

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#4 Mar 15, 2011

Yea all u could have is 2 tho for quad sli.

On a side not this would be an easy way to start hex sli if possible.

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MasterNater

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#5 Mar 15, 2011

Yea all u could have is 2 tho for quad sli.

On a side not this would be an easy way to start hex sli if possible.

If someone actually needed to TRI or QUAD SLI these, they would need to have their head examined. I can't image the wattage that would draw.

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HaVoK C89

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#6 Mar 15, 2011

You would prolly need upwards to about 1500+W power supply.....just think of the power bill!

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Theocnoob

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#7 Mar 15, 2011

If someone actually needed to TRI or QUAD SLI these, they would need to have their head examined. I can't image the wattage that would draw.

Check the video out of the guy on youtube who has a liquid cooled 4 way SLI on 580GTX's and Dual 1366 Xeon CPUs on an EVGA SR2 mobo with 48GB of RAM and massive massive SSD.

I believe the system has two 1000W++>>>> Power supplies.

He uses it for gaming. Apparently it'll run Crysis. :).

If there were a way to actually DO it, and I could afford it, I'd quad SLI 4 of these (although, technically, putting 2 of them in SLI is quad SLI as each board is 2 GPUS in SLI, effectively, on a board).
Think of the power. It's nice to know every single game can run at 200FPS. Comforting. Like a nice soft blankee of ones and zeros flying around on 24 billion transistors of GPU overkill

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HaVoK C89

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#8 Mar 15, 2011

Check the video out of the guy on youtube who has a liquid cooled 4 way SLI on 580GTX's and Dual 1366 Xeon CPUs on an EVGA SR2 mobo with 48GB of RAM and massive massive SSD.

I believe the system has two 1000W++>>>> Power supplies.

He uses it for gaming. Apparently it'll run Crysis. :).

If there were a way to actually DO it, and I could afford it, I'd quad SLI 4 of these (although, technically, putting 2 of them in SLI is quad SLI as each board is 2 GPUS in SLI, effectively, on a board).
Think of the power. It's nice to know every single game can run at 200FPS. Comforting. Like a nice soft blankee of ones and zeros flying around on 24 billion transistors of GPU overkill

U don't happen to have the link do u?

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EarthDog

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#9 Mar 15, 2011

If someone actually needed to TRI or QUAD SLI these, they would need to have their head examined. I can't image the wattage that would draw.

You would prolly need upwards to about 1500+W power supply.....just think of the power bill!

Im sure the AX1200 from Corsair would handle it...TDP is rumored to be 365W. If you can afford the cards, you can afford the power bill (which honestly wouldnt be much more). You guys have no idea how the electric works out...

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MasterNater

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#10 Mar 15, 2011

I suppose someone with a triple 30" monitor setup might take advantage of these in sli. For most of us it's complete overkill, but then again, oc members prefer rigs to be overkill! We're all a little sick in the head when it comes to pc hardware.

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