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.
Later, a slide showing the GTX 590 specs was posted:
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:
| GPU | HD 6990 | GTX 590 |
| GPGPU Technology | 3072 ALU Stream Processors | 1024 CUDA Cores |
| Memory | 4 GB DDR5 | 3 GB DDR5 |
| Power Connectors | Dual 8-Pin | Dual 8-Pin |
| TDP | 375 – 450 W | 365 W |
| Length | 12.5″ | 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.
Discussion
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?
It'll prolly be a good $900 i bet.
On a side not this would be an easy way to start hex sli if possible.
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.
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
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?
seen this over at bit-tech but not on here so id thought id spread it seen as people have been mentioning a dual 560TI card when looking at the 590s smaller brother the 460GTX 2WIN
CUDA Cores 1024
Graphics Clock 612MHz
Processor Clock 1224MHz
Memory Clock 3420MHz
Memory Interface Width 2x 384 bit
Memory Config 3GB GDDR5
Power Connectors Dual 8-pin
Dimensions 11" x 4.5", Dual Slot
Source
I wouldn't expect you to need more than one. Nvidia GPUs can power 2 monitors each. Dual GPU cards normally can power 3 monitors. They could probably power 4 monitors if they put 4 monitor connections on the card.
Previous dual GPU cards (GTX 295 / 9800 GX2) that I've owned have been able to power 3 monitors. They had 2 DVI ports an 1 HDMI port on them.
Officially, this is not a PCIe card. Neither is the 6990, for that matter.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/amds-radeon-hd-6990-the-new-single-card-king
Covered it pretty well in their 6990 review.