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GeForce GTX 590 Key Features Revealed

Shayper said:
Haha :) Doubt it, tried every fix short of reinstalling windows :)

Zero crossfire boost (negative in some games) and gpu2 shooting straight to 100% shortly after boot unless gpuz is open... Care to help? ;)
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That doesn't sound like a driver issue to me mate. It sounds more like a hardware fault with either one of the cards or one dead pcie slots.
Have you tested both cards one at a time in each slot to try and identify if one card or one slot is faulty?
 
Yeah, tried that :)

Finally fixed it by uninstalling all the useless stuff that comes with the AMD driver package. Now everytime I reinstall the drivers I only have to reinstall all my games to get the frame rate back up :rolleyes:

I'm going with GJ02, one of these for now, watercool, then get another when student loan comes through :) Huzzah for DSA
 
radar19 said:
Looks like a 295
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Nom. Looks massive, thank goodness I have a Phantom, hate to think how much blocks are gonna cost though lol
 
Ezyryder said:
CUDA won't pick up in the long term anyway. Open CL is where is at due to it being an open platform!
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CUDA wont pick up in the long term ? CUDA architecture is being used all over the world, from teaching, universities, in movies, in science and much much more. Its out there, its becoming huge in certain industries and will only continue to grow.
 
CUDA said:
CUDA wont pick up in the long term ? CUDA architecture is being used all over the world, from teaching, universities, in movies, in science and much much more. Its out there, its becoming huge in certain industries and will only continue to grow.
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It is out there, yes but it's only available on Nvidia hardware which in itself is a huge restriction. If OpenCL takes off then in the long term it will be more used than Cuda as all hardware can run it.

Hypothetically if Nvidia produced a dog of a chip while AMD produced a workhorse of a chip, companies who do not care in brand loyalty would flock to AMD(and vice versa) as results matter in a business sense.
 
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CUDA said:
The card is released tomorrow then ?
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either tomorrow the 22nd or the 24th depending on which rumour you want to go with.

as for the whole CUDA vrs openCL argument, i don't think many people would disagree that OpenCL will probably end up the more favorable system, but at the moment CUDA is here now and it has been available for several years already, whereas OpenCL seems to be doing what most open source things do, dragging its heels allot.

one other thing to remember is that all the Nvidia cards that will work with CUDA apps will also work just as well with OpenCL, as Nvidia are one of the partners of the Kronos group along with AMD, Intel, Apple and loads of others
 
CUDA is great for very specific jobs that will not be used by 99% of nvidias customer base for this card (please note - percentages may be pulled out of my **** and can be upto 100% wrong).

Be interested to see what nVidia pull out of the bag however, but think I'll be sticking with my trusty overclocked 5970.
 
bru said:
either tomorrow the 22nd or the 24th depending on which rumour you want to go with.

as for the whole CUDA vrs openCL argument, i don't think many people would disagree that OpenCL will probably end up the more favorable system, but at the moment CUDA is here now and it has been available for several years already, whereas OpenCL seems to be doing what most open source things do, dragging its heels allot.

one other thing to remember is that all the Nvidia cards that will work with CUDA apps will also work just as well with OpenCL, as Nvidia are one of the partners of the Kronos group along with AMD, Intel, Apple and loads of others
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Yep, OpenCL still has quite a bit of maturing to do. (Both systems need a bit of that e.g. it takes quite a bit of effort just to get CUDA setup and compiling on Win7 64.) but I mean feature-wise OpenCL has a bit of a ways to go.
 
But its not like anyone has anything really special to offer. Its just different implementations of C++. Both CUDA and OpenCL have a lot of headway to make. For most user's both are useless.

Maybe someone should start a C language thread.
 
CUDA said:
CUDA wont pick up in the long term ? CUDA architecture is being used all over the world, from teaching, universities, in movies, in science and much much more. Its out there, its becoming huge in certain industries and will only continue to grow.
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With it being a closed platform, restricted only to nVidia hardware means it'll die a painful death. Especially since AMD's gained a lot of marketshare. All those companies using CUDA will be investing in OpenCL research as we speak, it's in their best interests when it comes to software sales, and that's the bottom line of it.
 
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