Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Review

Posted on 2011-03-24 15:03:51 by Thomas De Maesschalck

Neoseeker gives this card a Recommended rating.

Nvidia wants you to feel the power of dual GF110 GPUs in one mean graphics card, the GeForce GTX 590. Set to be their flagship offering in the GeForce GTX 500 series of enthusiast range products, the GeForce GTX 590 is aiming squarely at AMD's bad boy, the Radeon HD 6990. It's promising plenty of power while remaining relatively cool and quiet. A $699 graphics card is bound to offer plenty, now see how it stacks against the HD 6990 in our review!

"The overall look of the GTX 590 closely resembles that of the second generation GTX 295, but internally the GTX 590 is an entirely new monster. This is due to its use of dual GF110 GPUs that include a total of 8 Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs) that house 32 Streaming Multiprocessors, 1024 CUDA cores, 128 Texture units and 96 ROPs. So, from an architectural standpoint the GTX 590 comes equipped with double the internal specifications of the GTX 580. However, the clock speeds of both the memory and GPU had to be reduced to maintain a TPD below 375W. The reduction puts the GPU clock speeds at 607MHz, and the memory is rated at 853MHz (3414MHz effective). The GTX 590 also includes double the frame buffer of the GTX 580, as the board has six 64-bit memory controllers giving it a 384-bit interface with 1.5GB of memory per GPU (3GB total)."



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