NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 3GB Review

[SKYMTL]

After more than a year of rumors, false leads and stiff competition, NVIDIA is finally releasing their near-mythical dual Fermi graphics card. Called the GTX 590, it incorporates two 512-core GPUs and 3GB of GDDR5 memory in an effort to topple AMD's HD 6990 from its preeminent market position. Contrary to what many were led believe, this ultra hig... [ Read full article ]

[dma0991]

I was waiting for this.

[Soultribunal]

Interesting showing all and all.

Lets see what pricing and availability bring. As well as more refined drivers.

ST

[Arinoth]

Informative review, though i personally see the 590 coming up short as it at best comes up behind a 570 sli and is going to come out with a higher price tag. Only selling point to me is that its a single gpu for those who cant go sli on amd motherboard.

[ilya]

We understand MSI’s AfterBurner software supports voltage increases for the GTX 590 but we’d hesitate to recommend going this direction since it could void the warranty on an extremely expensive piece of hardware

It seems reviewers have blown up the power limiter on their cards when messing with voltages.

This card seems to be quite the engineering feat, but I honestly don't see any value in it for the consumer.

So sad :( So slow.

[IRQ Conflict]

I blame game makers for not using the potential high end cards have really.

[dma0991]

Originally Posted by IRQ Conflict

I blame game makers for not using the potential high end cards have really.

Apparently AMD is blames Microsoft as AMD claims that DX11 is holding them back in improving game visual quality. With all the games that are ported to consoles I see the drop in quality. Crysis 2 is less demanding compared to Crysis because game developers wanted to port it to console. What an utter disappointment.

[norfolk]

Originally Posted by ilya

This card seems to be quite the engineering feat

Yeh I think I saw a card like this a while back made by 3DFX

[CMetaphor]

Quietest Dual-GPU? Yes.
Fastest? Not quite.

Slightly disappointed in this card TBH. I think Nvidia could have gone along AMD's route to boost the cards TDP to 450w - then we may have had a clear "winner" in the performance crown.

I still won't buy either though, just not worth the money when compared to 2x 6950/6970s or 2x GTX570s. These cards will fade to nothingness unless they start becoming attractive - Either by having a lower price than two equiv. cards, or better performance than two equiv. cards.

Also, Non-reference please! AMD and Nvidia both screwed up if you ask me. Almost every case in the world vents from front to back, bottom to top (some combination thereof). Stop pushing hot air the wrong direction and work and getting it clearly out of the system please!