Rumoured GTX590 in February

[Final8y]

TBH I don't think Nvidia are losing any sleep over it, it's a niche market.

But the point is that its still a market all the same or they would not make a product for it at all otherwise.

There are more people using Multi screen setups for whatever reason than NV 3D vision but we aint going to say that NV 3D vision is pointless are we because its even more of a niche.

 

[Freddie1980]

This jsut could just be that EVGA special edition card that was posted a while back.

 

[icehot666]

It looks like people are generally thinking about home setups when they are thinking "who needs multi monitor?"..... There are professional reasons for it as well - I work in the CCTV industry, which relies on large monitor walls a lot, and we have to consider multi monitor setups that are powerful enough to decode 16x720p h.264 streams per monitor! There is massive call for this kind of stuff, especially the matrox cards.

 

[bru]

The current lot of cards from AMD and nVidia are a let down anyway compared to the previous lot, both the GTX580 and 6970 are around the same amount faster than the GTX480 and 5870, yet you get people like Stulid gushing over how great the 580 is and how much of a let down the 6970 is. In my opinion, they're both let downs, but still good cards in their own respect, even if they're both overly expensive.

got to agree with this, neither company has made a big enough advance to get really excited about. now don't get me wrong that doesn't make the currant range bad cards but more of a 4870/4890...gtx280/285 jump than a whole new generation.

excellent news, nvidia are dominating the market again at all price points.

lol this sort of post isn't really helping keep the AMD/Nvidia arguments down now is it.

I'd love a 6990 or nvidias vapourware 590

neither does this one.

it could be argued that the 990 is just as vapourware as the 590 at this point, we know both companies are bringing dual cards out, and both with be hopelessly constrained by the 300w limit, of course this is an enthusiast's forum and we will throw that limit out the window and clock the nuts off of them anyway. interesting times ahead.

as for the 3 monitor issue, yes its a niche market, but so is having a high performance gpu seeing as most people use on-board. but again this is an enthusiast forum so of course its an issue.
I'm sure that nvidia will address this when they build their next gpu. as either company doesn't let the other have a feature that they don't emulate in some form or other when they can.

 

[Vega]

u guys are living in uk even nuts cans make in uk min 1000 pounds in month.

at the moment i am in georgia so here even prime minister has 800 pounds

ordinary people dont even have 250 pouds in month so stop moaring about uk prices just work and u will have any card u wish

also in georgia gtx 580 costs min 450 pounds

But in Georgia you have much hotter women. So it all balances out you see?

 

[Defiant306]

You really need more than 1 card anyhow to get decent performance with 3 screen setups at a decent resolution so don't really see thats a problem - and you'd be better off we 2x slightly cheaper cards than one of the top end for that kinda setup.

What dreaded microstuttering?

SLI/Xfire cards are never 100% in sink with each other so they stutter when producing what you see on screen. Mind you can tell the difference between a 35+ fps refresh rate.

I used to see it a lot in WoW with my old 4870x2 card and that was the better combo since it used a bridging chip minimise the stuttering.

Also the price of monitors now means that a 3 monitor setup is not expensive. I regularly see 1080p ones on another bargain site up for about £100 mark at an average of 20-22 inch size.

Even good monitors like the U2311 can be had for just over £250 each.

I dont run games over all my monitors just my u2711, hell the native 2560x1440 rags the nutz off the 6970 in the likes of Crysis at full pelt anyway.

The 6970 is an even better card as well considering I now have a 46" Samsung 650 TV connected to the card as well via HDMI.

So if I fancy watching something from my PC I just swip the windows to the far right and go into the living room and watch it on my TV with a Lenovo HTPC remote I imported from the states.

So there you go a card that can support 4 screens, thats what you call diversity.

 

[Rroff]

I know what microstuttering is, I've an extensive history with SLI and never had any significant issues due to it.

The side port on the 4870x2 was never enabled and it was also one of the worst cards for microstutter.

 

[Defiant306]

Well from my experience microstuttering is too real. Also I'm not refering to the sideport as you said that wasnt enabled. That was a direct link between the to cores, the chip I was talking about distributes the load between the two cores.

 

[Rroff]

All (or almost all) multi GPU cards use a bridge chip (basic PCI-e splitter & transaction shortcut). Don't let your experiences with the 4870x2 cloud your opinion of multi GPU tho, that, the 9800GX2 and 38xx series crossfire tended to be bad for it but most other SLI/CF setups work fine 99% of the time without any major microstutter issues.