Nvidia's Dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 Reportedly Shipping March 22nd
Nvidia's Dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 Reportedly Shipping March 22nd
Posted 03/10/2011 at 1:27pm
| by Paul Lilly
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We heard back in April that Nvidia would be releasing its dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 videocard sometime this month. We're now 10 days into March and the only modern-generation dual-GPU videocard on the market is AMD's recently released Radeon HD 6990. That won't be the case for long. According to reports, Nvidia will drop its new flagship part March 22nd, or just under two weeks from today.
That's according to news and rumor site Fudzilla, which claims to have seen the card up close and personal at CeBIT, back before the final specs had been, well, finalized. We're still waiting on official word from Nvidia on what those specs will look like, though rumors suggest it will run a pair of GF110 chips. That means it should come with 1024 CUDA cores.
The GTX 590 will go up against the aforementioned HD 6990 from AMD. You can read our performance preview of that card here, but in short, it's one fast son-of-a-gun (or two fast sons of guns, as the case may be with dual-GPU cards).
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dylanna1234
March 17, 2011 at 9:59pm
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dylanna1234
March 17, 2011 at 9:56pm
New found bench marks hidden in nvidia forums some where :D go find the proof
martinzombie
March 10, 2011 at 3:19pm
I wonder how would this cards perform in CUDA aplications like Badaboom (sucks) or other media encoders. Also who needs this kind a power I mean c'mon a 580 is more than enough for most games and future games.
bpstone
March 10, 2011 at 2:40pm
You will need a 1200-1500watt psu to run two GTX590 GPUs in SLI. I would wait if you are going to invest that kind of money. LGA2011 will replace LGA1366 platform this year. The best LGA1155 motherboard I have seen as of now is single x16, dual x8 x8 and triple x8 x16 x16. Bulldozer will be released this June and will temporarily overtake Intel as the performance leader if the sources are right (new architecture, not Phenom).
Conin
March 10, 2011 at 1:56pm
I think I'll get one of this if it outperforms AMD's 6990, and I think it will.
Elektra54
March 10, 2011 at 1:47pm
Can you guys get a review of these ASAP. I'm Starting a new RIG and was about to go buy some new Video cards (GTX 580s) but I would like to know how well these perform! Thanx guys!
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