looks its around £650-700 mark
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-590-listed-in-e-tail/11653.html#
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-590-listed-in-e-tail/11653.html#
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gtx 590 spec`s and priced
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holy £££ 
Soldato
Shudda just posted it in the thread which is already there about the 590.
But yeah, £650-700 is what I guessed.
But yeah, £650-700 is what I guessed.
why bother even releasing something like this when a £150-£200 card can max anything
Max anything?
why bother even releasing something like this when a £150-£200 card can max anything
Same reason people would ever buy high end cards, multi-screen displays, 30" monitors, benchmarks, e-peen value etc...
Soldato
590 could have problems in clearly beating the 6990 if it ships with them clock speeds listed in the link.
I suppose a gtx590 makes a *little* more sense than a 6990 at those prices.
A 6990 can be equalled or beaten by two flashed 6950s, a setup which costs (at current prices) £150 less.
GTX580s are still horrifically overpriced, with two setting you back at least £750, making the 590 cheaper than getting two 580s, the (main) reason for going for dual GPU cards.
Needless to say it's all painfully expensive and I'm never going to buy one, but hey, at least it's a more justifiable purchase than a 6990
A 6990 can be equalled or beaten by two flashed 6950s, a setup which costs (at current prices) £150 less.
GTX580s are still horrifically overpriced, with two setting you back at least £750, making the 590 cheaper than getting two 580s, the (main) reason for going for dual GPU cards.
Needless to say it's all painfully expensive and I'm never going to buy one, but hey, at least it's a more justifiable purchase than a 6990
Soldato
2x570s or 480s will easily beat out a 590 if it comes at 612Mhz core, over £600 with such low clocks is a rip-off.
Soldato
So because a site lists it for pre-orders we have to automatically assume that the spec's are real?
Didn't another site list it with 700mhz+ clocks?
Didn't another site list it with 700mhz+ clocks?
yes the techpowerup database list it as 752 MHz.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/281/NVIDIA_GTX_590.html
the 612 MHz is the same as the specs that was leaked just before Christmas, so its anybodies guess what specs are correct.
in my opinion i think that the 612 MHz is the old spec that was probably planned to keep things under 300 Watts, but now that AMD has raised the bar with the 6990 using 375 Watts, Nvidia have raised the bar also. of course this is just my opinion and could be completely wrong.
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hhmmm price was always going to be around £700 if it was 2xgtx580s. But its going to struggle to beat the 6990 with those low clocks and only 3Gb (1.5Gb per card) memory. Apart from hardcore fans grabbing this over the £540 6990 would just simply be silly. BUT fingers crossed, were in for a good surprise.
Soldato
If the card sticks religiously to 375 watts then it's a straight fight as that's what the 6990 uses and we get to see who makes the more efficient hardware.
why bother even releasing something like this when a £150-£200 card can max anything
A 6950 or 480 can't max anything.
There is a thing called eyefinity/nvidia surround, and resolutions don't stop at 1080p.
Why do you think these cards also come out with huge amounts of VRAM?
Soldato
So 2x 480soc costing £480 are faster than a 590 costing £650-£700 ?
This is hardly rocket science. Unless you're going buy 2x 590 for 3 monitor gaming so they might sell out quick, lol.
This is hardly rocket science. Unless you're going buy 2x 590 for 3 monitor gaming so they might sell out quick, lol.