GTX590 or 2x580?

JasonKnights · 1 Mar 2011 at 19:55

I have a GTX295 and was planning on an upgrade to gtx590 but have well been put off by someone on here saying my card only has 896mb instead of the 1792 it claims to have. Does anyone know hornets dual cards actually work? I've seen a YouTube video saying the 590 has 2x 580's clocked down as 2x580s would consume to much power. I wanted to play a game which needs 1200MBs to max but it says I only have 850 don't want to pay a bucket load for a 590. For only 1.5?

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:08

The GTX590 is pretty unrealistic, I can't see it coming with the specs you hear going around. The best option for the most performance for a good price would be 2 6950s unlocked to 6970s, GTX580 SLI performance the price of a single GTX580, with 2GB of RAM per card.

opethdisciple · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:22

kylew said:
The GTX590 is pretty unrealistic, I can't see it coming with the specs you hear going around. The best option for the most performance for a good price would be 2 6950s unlocked to 6970s, GTX580 SLI performance the price of a single GTX580, with 2GB of RAM per card.

2Gb of Ram in total however.

Garee · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:25

kylew said:
The best option for the most performance for a good price would be 2 6950s unlocked to 6970s, GTX580 SLI performance the price of a single GTX580, with 2GB of RAM per card.

Crossfire 6950(70) are the same performance as SLI 580s? Surely not :eek:

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:26

opethdisciple said:
2Gb of Ram in total however.

Which is still more than 1.5GB per card that you'd get with the 580s.

Garee · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:39

kylew said:
Which is still more than 1.5GB per card that you'd get with the 580s.

Wait, what?

580s don't have 512mb of memory.

AtaRo · 1 Mar 2011 at 20:44

kylew said:
Which is still more than 1.5GB per card that you'd get with the 580s.

Not if you get the Gainward GTX 580 "Phantom" 3072MB model

JasonKnights · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:02

6GB of gaming power should be enough lol, 2 x gtx580 3GB version!

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:04

Garee said:
Wait, what?

580s don't have 512mb of memory.

What?

When did I say that? 2GB is still more than 1.5GB that you get with 580s.

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:06

AtaRo said:
Not if you get the Gainward GTX 580 "Phantom" 3072MB model

Have you seen the price of them?

Garee · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:08

kylew said:
What? When did I say that? 2GB is still more than 1.5GB that you get with 580s.

It's the way I read your post. A missing "the" made all the difference

kylew said:
Which is still more than 1.5GB per card that you'd get with the 580s.

2Gb - 1.5GB is 512mb.

I understand what you mean now though.

Cleeecooo · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:44

Garee said:
It's the way I read your post. A missing "the" made all the difference

You just corrected Kylew's grammar mistake - have a cookie

Garee · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:52

Cleeecooo said:
You just corrected Kylew's grammar mistake - have a cookie

It wasn't an intentional grammar nazi moment. I genuinly read it as though he was saying 580s had 512mb of memory :cool:

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:56

Cleeecooo said:
You just corrected Kylew's grammar mistake - have a cookie

It wasn't a grammatical mistake, it's dependant on how you read it. Considering we all know 580s have 1.5GB of RAM adds to that too.

Cleeecooo · 1 Mar 2011 at 21:59

Garee said:
It wasn't an intentional grammar nazi moment. I genuinly read it as though he was saying 580s had 512mb of memory

I read it like that too.

Face it kylew you made a mistake. A "the" would have made that comment easily comprehensible.

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:03

Cleeecooo said:
I read it like that too.

Face it kylew you made a mistake. A "the" would have made that comment easily comprehensible.

I'm not arguing that "the" would have made it easier to understand, but what I am arguing is that it wasn't a mistake, because I didn't "forget" to put "the" in it. I said it the way I'd say it usually. Arguably, it wasn't exactly hard to understand in the first place since, as I said, we all know the 580 has 1.5GB of RAM anyway.

GJ02 · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:07

1536MB kyle, not 1500

kylew · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:10

GJ02 said:
1536MB kyle, not 1500

1536MB is 1.5GB. :confused:

Add 512MB to 1536 and you get 2048MB, which is exactly 2GB. 1024MB (1GB) + 512MB (0.5GB) = 1536MB or 1.5GB.

You're the first to say anything about "1500".

Marvin · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:23

GJ02 said:
1536MB kyle, not 1500

kylew said:
1536MB is 1.5GB.

Add 512MB to 1536 and you get 2048MB, which is exactly 2GB. 1024MB (1GB) + 512MB (0.5GB) = 1536MB or 1.5GB.

You're the first to say anything about "1500".

Damn, you've allowed him to regain his dignity

. (Joking)

But yeah, I read it as 1.5GB more than the 580 too, however I know what he meant.

I think it's too early to speculate about the GTX590s performance, price, heat, build or anything else quite yet. What would be silly would be discounting AMD from your choice, as they definitely have better priced cards, and in crossfire/SLI the new 69xx series have the scaling edge (just). On the other hand, two GTX580s are more powerful to begin with, so as far as two card solutions go, it depends on what you're willing to spend.

Luckily AMD aren't sticking to the rumour that they'd release a month late (thankfully), so we should see some nice 6990 vs GTX590 benchmarks soon.

JasonKnights · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:44

I have tried ATI cards in the past, just seem to prefer nvidia? Not really sure why. Suppose it's like tea or coffee! They both do the same job but don't to personal preference. On paper ATIs should kill nvidia with all the MHz and cores and pipelines but they never do, just like amd CPUs they always cheaper than intels but in my opinion never as good!