GeForce GTX 590 Key Features Revealed

[RavenXXX2]

An alleged partner presentation slide leaked to the internet reveals quite a bit more about the GeForce GTX 590 than what we already know. To begin with, it lays to rest speculations surrounding the shader configuration, each of the two GF110 GPUs have all 512 CUDA cores enabled. Next, the full width of the memory interface is utilized, giving you 1536 MB per GPU, or 3 GB of total memory on the card.

The rest are fascinating features, such as a removable cooler shroud that lets you clean the card from time to time (you might need to clean it now and then for the best cooling performance), heatsinks that use vapor-chamber technology, getting rid of those pesky heat-pipes, high-grade 12-layer PCB that uses 2 oz copper layers, and a 10-phase VRM (looks like 4+1 phase per GPU). As expected, the final iteration of the card needs to draw power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. "Barely Street Legal"? Is it because they'll throw you out of LAN parties for having too much of a performance advantage? Hmmm.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142153

 

[RavenXXX2]

What size is the 6990 fan, smaller than 80mm? The fan on the 590 looks to be bigger than that of the 6990, better cooling and less noise one hopes.

 

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From the other thread I thought you said fan in the middle was a horrible design.

Correction I said the 6990 fan is a horrible design, the Nvidia fan looks way bigger so it won't be as much of a screaming banshee.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Nvidia have refined their cooling and fan technology with the 500 cards, I expect the 590 to be way quieter than the 6990, maybe even cooler. AMD has got lazy with their cooler designs, same generic style releases after release, Nvidia take things like SLI in to considering and lower the fan to let the cards on top in SLI breathe, it's little things like this that set Nvidia and AMD apart.

Anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/amds-radeon-hd-6990-the-new-single-card-king/18


Amd requested that sites do the tests first before taking the cooler off to take pictures of the bare card due to the fact they were using phase change thermal compound. Its pretty obvious from the results that anandtech got that they took the card apart and reassembled it with regular TIM leading to the higher temps that ramped the fan way up.

According to Overclock3D, he tested the card with the stock tim before he removed the cooler, his conclusion was it's all marketing bull and he actually got lower temps with a different tim applied to the cores.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Funny that since the gtx295 single pcb cooler looks to have the same fan size and mounting method as the 590...




What are you babbling about?

Slow this morning? notice how the AMD have a flat shroud, in crossfire the lower cards fan hardly get room to breathe, Nvida have lowerd the part of the shroud where the fan is so it can get more air, simple as that.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Fact is 6990 is hot and loud, majority of reviews shows this and it's down to the awful fan design, willing to take bets that the 590 is cooler and quieter.


Overclock3D editor posted it on his youtube channel.

Yeah thats BS mate. I tested the cards and made vids before stripping down. If anything they were cooler after. The GTX480 tried the same thing, its just a cop out for the manus when they know the cards get hot. Any decent TIM like MX4 or NH-1 ect will outperform the gunk they use from the factory.

Its just to stop nubs who dont know what they are doing using something basic or **** like arctic silver.
TimeToLiveCustoms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWbwjiR7h8

Yeah by about 2mm, im sure that will greatly enhance the cooling by vast multiples of degrees...

Every little thing helps.

 

[RavenXXX2]

1.5gb per gpu?

Fail. Was hoping for 3gb. Doesn't make sense to release a card built for 30"/surround gaming and then give it only 1.5gb of memory, It's too easy to hit the limit.


With the power of two underclocked 580's on tap there's going to be quite a bit of gpu horsepower avaliable so hilarious levels of aa are more than ever, feasible options. I quite enjoy cod4 with 32xaa/8x SS, fps count is fine but I near 1.3gb at 1920x1200.



Oh and to those complaining about noise. Go and buy a passive 3650 or something. Do you really think that two of the fastest cores made by each company on a single pcb sharing a single fan are going to be cool, quiet or sip power?

Same as with 580 reference SLI, I don't see people complaining about lack of Vram there, surround gaming is such a niche market it's not important to Nvidia.

 

[RavenXXX2]

It's already going to be priced high IMO, dedicated 3GB to each core will price it in to the stratosphere, 1.5GB does the job.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Who says 1.5GB is going to limit anything at surround res, show me the tests/reviews.

Pains me to link to them but in the OCP review 580SLI v 6970Xfire, in the most demanding vram intensive game out there metro 2033 the 1.5Gb 580s does fine at 5760x1200. Lack of vram argument is overblown when comparing 1.5GB v 2GB.

 

[RavenXXX2]

So what, base a decision on buggy console port bulletstorm, I think not, as for DA2 it currently has major performance issues running in DX11 on Nvidia cards. The rest of the tests run fine at surround res.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Card will still sell, after all it should be the fastest card on the planet and a lot of Nivida fans will suck that up at whatever the cost.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Lmao whatever you say it still shows that games are going to cause 1.5gb a problem. as i said above this resolution is not the highest either.

What games? you show bulletstorm which frankly no one cares about and DA2 which as stated has problems currently with Nvidia, face facts 1.5 GB is not limiting in 99.9% of games.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Sorry but the 590 is not going to fail because it has 1.5Gb vram, reviews will show this so I will let them do the talking when they hit.

 

[RavenXXX2]

A number of forthcoming titles are being built up for the PC, BF3 being one of them, PC gaming has never been so profitable, just got to looks at the revenue steam takes from sales. PC gaming is on the ascendancy.

 

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[RavenXXX2]

Calling bull on 612 Mhz.

 

[RavenXXX2]

£720

 

[RavenXXX2]

Cuda makes some valid points, less of the hate.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Great guy Tom. That box contains the fastest GFX card on the planet, roll on the 24th.

 

[RavenXXX2]

It's going around that this maybe a 600 series chip.