GTX 590 Discussion

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

^^ Thanks for the info gaurav. Lets see how it performs. It will be a beast for sure.

thnx.

looks like it.

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

[VRZ] NVIDIA GTX590 Delayed to March 24th

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VR-Zone learned that the launch of the GeForce GTX 590 is being pushed back 2 days to March 24th. It is supposed to launch together with Crysis 2, a "The Way Is Meant To Be Played" game which is still on target for March 22nd release. One possible reason is that NVIDIA is trying to get a SLI profile working for Crysis 2. Also, we have yet to hear a DX11 support for Crysis 2 either so it won't do justice to GeForce GTX 590 if that option isn't available at all. Press driver is now at version 267.71 and this card overclocks really well at this moment.

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EDIT: It seems that NVIDIA is trying their best to return the date to a March 22nd launch and is actively collaborating with partners to make this happen.

Also check this quote below...

In addition to basic fan speed control and burn-in testing, MSI N590GTX-P3D3GD5 supports Afterburner super voltage function, pressurized by a 607MHz core clock setting raised to 840MHz, an increase of up to 38% overclocking potential, and then with the advanced graphics technology game, gives players more smooth gaming experience.

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[vickybat]

^^ Looks promising for the highend market.

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

[TB] Gigabyte GTX590 Leaked and Benchmarked

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Agency from Guangzhou King Fung
Gigabyte GTX590 will arrive tomorrow arrival
Estimated model is: GV-N590D5-3GD-B
Graphics parameters:
Memory: 3072MB (single is the 1530M)
Width: 768BIT
Stream Processors: 1024 (single 512)
Core frequency: 607MHZ
Memory frequency: 3414MHZ
Support for Quad SLI
Power: 365W
Two external power 8PIN

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[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

[PCIL] ASUS GTX590 Box and Card Shots Leaked (Lots of photos)

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[coderunknown]

will the gigabyte card come in a suitcase?

also whats the exact use of the custom bridge chip?

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

will the gigabyte card come in a suitcase?

also whats the exact use of the custom bridge chip?

Nope. That's just for the reveal/launch showoff etc. Don't expect suitcases lol.
AMD 6990 also had a suitcase during its launch. Probably to show how long it was. 1-foot-long card lol.

The custom bridge chip here interconnects the two GF110 chips.
It is highly probable that the custom chip is actually the NF200 chip that interconnects two GPU's on the same PCB. SLI in this case. It's also worth pointing out the design of using just one PCB is a first for Nvidia and they are now following the same design as AMD took with their dual chip cards by using a bridge chip in the middle of the PCB to handle all the SLI functionality. It's a far more elegant solution to use one PCB rather then two like Nvidia have used previously with the 9800GTX2 and the GTX295.

The two GPUs are interconnected via a custom bridge chip , as is generally on dual-GPU graphics cards from Nvidia’s.

Techglobe - First Details of Nvidia's GTX 590 Leak Out

 

[ithehappy]

My card will look like a Nano in front of this

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

[wccftech] POV/TGT Geforce GTX 590 Charged Edition Available for 659,1 €

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Point of View’s Geforce GTX 590 has been pictured and looks like the card is an overclocked variant and is known as the POV/TGT GTX 590 Charged Edition Graphics Card. The card has been developed and tuned by POV in Germany.

The card comes with slightly higher clocks of 668MHz/1224MHz/ 3628MHz of Core/Shader/Memory respectively. It uses a 3GB GDDR5 memory running along a 384bit x 2 wide memory interface. The card sticks to the reference cooling of the GTX 590 and the only difference seen in this and the stock Nvidia GTX 590 is the POV logo on the cooler shroud and the overclocked specs. The card is 11″ long and can be a issue to install in smaller casings. Comes with Dual 8 Pin connectors to power it up.

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[coderunknown]

Nope. That's just for the reveal/launch showoff etc. Don't expect suitcases lol.
AMD 6990 also had a suitcase during its launch. Probably to show how long it was. 1-foot-long card lol.

at least XFX offered their BE cards in a gun like box.

The custom bridge chip here interconnects the two GF110 chips.
It is highly probable that the custom chip is actually the NF200 chip that interconnects two GPU's on the same PCB. SLI in this case. It's also worth pointing out the design of using just one PCB is a first for Nvidia and they are now following the same design as AMD took with their dual chip cards by using a bridge chip in the middle of the PCB to handle all the SLI functionality. It's a far more elegant solution to use one PCB rather then two like Nvidia have used previously with the 9800GTX2 and the GTX295.

thanks for the detailed info Gaurav.

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

Ya now better. But when this damn anandtech will publish a review now?

They'll publish when Nvidia sends them one piece to review.

No reviews have surfaced yet over the Internet, though. Today is the release date but when exactly do they release is yet to be seen.

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[JojoTheDragon]

WOW! So now it comes inside a coffin. WTH!

 

[vickybat]

Check out the reviews:

Anandtech

Tomshardware

Guru3d

Guru3d sli


Both are neck and neck. 590 wins in some and 6990 wins in some. But when oced, 590 delivers some blistering performance. The pricing is also similar to 6990 i.e $699. Nvidia deliberately lowered the clocks to check power consumption. According to tomshardware , 590 is the winner but marginally. But its far quieter than the 6990.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

ASUS GeForce GTX 590 3 GB Review - Page 1/27 | techPowerUp

ASUS GeForce GTX 590 3GB Video Card Review - The GeForce GTX590 Arrives For War at $699 - Legit Reviews

6990 has advantage at higher resolution for which these cards are meant.

and as said its difficult to unseat the established champion.

a word on oc from techpowerup -

Performing overclocking the GTX 590 can only be described as a big pain in the ass. I've never seen a more crash-happy card than this when doing overclocking. Basically my "find maximum overclock" consisted of setting a clock speed, running a benchmark for 10 seconds and then waiting 45 seconds until the system finished rebooting after a system hang. If you plan to do overclocking, please make a system image backup, so you can recover quickly in case the constant system crashes break something.

Overclocking potential is quite nice and pays of well if you are willing to tackle it.

another thing from techpowerup -

As a first step, I increased the voltage from 0.938 V default to 1.000 V, maximum stable clock was 815 MHz - faster than GTX 580! Moving on, I tried 1.2 V to see how much could be gained here, at default clocks and with NVIDIA's power limiter enabled. I went to heat up the card and then *boom*, a sound like popcorn cracking, the system turned off and a burnt electronics smell started to fill up the room. Card dead! Even with NVIDIA power limiter enabled. Now the pretty looking, backlit GeForce logo was blinking helplessly and the fan did not spin, both indicate an error with the card's 12V supply.
After talking to several other reviewers, this does not seem to be an isolated case, and many of them have killed their cards with similar testing, which is far from being an extreme test.

pros cons from techpowerup -

pros -
High 3D performance
Lower noise than HD 6990
Supports more than two active displays
Support for DirectX 11
Support for CUDA/PhysX

cons -
Expensive & High power draw
Performance is not higher than HD 6990
In both 2D and 3D, the card emits a lot of fan noise
Card blew up during testing, power limiting system does not work reliably
Full maximum performance depends on SLI profile support
Advanced overclocking could be complicated by NVIDIA's power limiting system
It's harder than on other cards to get a stable overclock
Limited relevance of DirectX 11

a word on pricing -
cheapest 6990 = HIS ATI Radeon HD 6990 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card []
cheapest 590 = MSI GeForce GTX 590 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card []


@gaurav
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[coderunknown]

WOW! So now it comes inside a coffin. WTH!

its looks more like a pRemium tiffin box.

will be interesting to see how XFX responds. maybe this time they'll send HD6990 BE inside a Jevlin missile case

BTW, 1100$ for that particular card. i can set up a 3way SLI with Nvidia GTX570.

 

[mohiuddin]

Well, these cards r meant to be used in or more than 2500x1600 resouliton...and 8x aa...so 6990 is 6% faster at that res...and in higher res it gonna be more as of 2x2gb vram....and about oc, 6990 is great even hit 975mhz...
Where ,590gtx is very very looser at it, it is been reported that many already ended up fried in trying to simply find out its highest clock...like overclockersclub...it is such a shame that it cann't oc that well...but it is quieter and cooler though...coz of its vertically blowing cooler..

 

[paul.rohit]

gtx590

what are your opinions abt the gtx 590?
which is better, two gtx 560 ti or a single gtx 590?

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

[EN] NVIDIA's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 emerges, can't slay the Radeon HD 6990 titan

1,024 total CUDA cores, 94 ROPs, and 3GB of GDDR5 RAM on board. Yup, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is indeed a pair of GTX 580 chips spliced together, however power constraints have meant that each of those chips is running at a tamer pace that their single-card variant.

Engadget - Read.

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[asingh]

Re: gtx590

Merging with thread.

 

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

@gaurav
you joined ocn??

I've been a member since... lemme check...
Ah, yes. 12th Feb 2010.

And to enforce your report on GTX590 blowing up.

[LR] NVIDIA Geforce GTX 590 Video Card Blows Up on Video

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We got an e-mail from a reader that a GeForce GTX 590 BYHD (Burn Your House Down) Edition was released by SweClockers, so we did a little searching and found out what they were talking about. It appears that some of the first NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 video cards to ship come with Forceware 267.52 drivers and they don't prevent the card from overheating when overclocked. The folks over at SweClockers cranked up the clock frequency and video taped the carnage. We didn't have this problem with 267.71 drivers we used for testing or the new 267.84 drivers that came out today. It was one year ago to the month that NVIDIA had a fan issue with Forceware 196.75 drivers that killed a number of video cards! Déjà vu!

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