discussion NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 3GB Review

[heflys20]

I see only a few areas where the GTX 590 beats the HD 6990 in our tests. I said as much in the conclusion and our "average" charts bear that out. :thumb:

I guess folks won't be satisfied unless you say the 590 sucks and the 6990 is Super Duper "lite!

It certainly isn't the 6990 crusher that folks were expecting, I warrant that. It's slightly more quiet though.

 

[grifter11]

I think the all new GTX 590 beats out the HD 6990 in 2 of the most important areas Noise and Power usage. Performance wise they more or less on an even keel with each other. The HD 6990 beats the GTX 590 in multiple monitor set-ups and Memory amount.

GTX 590 has 3GB of Memory and can use only 3 monitors on 1 Card.

HD 6990 has 4GB of Memory and can use up 5 monitors on 1 Card.

P.S. In closing I'd personal take the GTX 590 over the HD 6990. Because I prefer quiet and power efficient Video Cards plus I have had nothing but grief with any ATI/AMD video cards I've ever used.

 

[Delavan]

P.S. In closing I'd personal take the GTX 590 over the HD 6990. Because I prefer quiet and power efficient Video Cards plus I have had nothing but grief with any ATI/AMD video cards I've ever used.

To be perfectly honest, It used to be more simple to choose gfx cards back in the day...not a lot frying cards, ok sometimes noisy coolers and stuff..

Now you have to look for so many things...everybody hails the Hd6950 especially in crossfire, then people are going on about driver support, then it's the tesselation, then the noise, then the folding@home power, power consumption, reference versus non-ref PCBs (for water block compatibility and better components), VRAM capacities of the very same cards, crossfire/SLI compatibility, cuda, multi-screen support...

DAMN....give me a break...

The HD6990, in it's actual form (reference cooler) is like the "leaf blowers" that so many people were laughing hard about back in the day...

 

[MacJunky]

I do not like how there are 500 cards on the market.. that is just too much. I know they want to bin their parts and they want "a card for every single person on the entire planet" but that is just too much!

 

[SKYMTL]

I do not like how there are 500 cards on the market.. that is just too much. I know they want to bin their parts and they want "a card for every single person on the entire planet" but that is just too much!

If you think the market is cluttered now, wait till the end of April. It will get worse since there are STILL a ton of last gen cards in the channel and more new cards being released next month.

 

[Luay79]

For the nice sum of around $1,450.00 for a pair of GTX 590's for a Quad SLI setup. Nothing short of a pair of HD 6990's in quad Crossfire X can touch them.

P.S. If I had won the lottery I'd be really tempted on getting the following Rig.

Intel I7 990X CPU
Corsiar H60 Cooler
24GB Corsair 1600MHz Vengeance Memory
Gigabyte G1 Assasin Mobo
2 EVGA GTX 590 Classfied Video Cards
128MB Corsair Performance 3 SSD For OS
2TB WD Black for Storage
LG Bluray Burner Drive
a second Basic LG 18X DVD drive
all installed in the Coolermaster HAF-X Nvidia Edition Case
Powered by the Corsair 80-Plus Gold AX1200 PSU

And For the Monitor the DELL 30"

If I had that money the TJ11 Case would be the first thing I'd get.

 

[GT7R]

If you think the market is cluttered now, wait till the end of April. It will get worse since there are STILL a ton of last gen cards in the channel and more new cards being released next month.

Really??
Thought the 590 review will be the last major launch for the next half-year or so...
Well game on then, good and never boring for all of us

 

[Luay79]

Really??
Thought the 590 review will be the last major launch for the next half-year or so...
Well game on then, good and never boring for all of us

Actually, the dust has just settled down for the GTX 570/580 and HD 6950/6970 with all third parties unleashing their custom PCBs. Now and for the next 3 months we will see what they can do for the HD 6990 and GTX 590. I hope Asus Direct CUII and MSI Twin Frozr III versions will come out and rule by summer time.

 

[_dangtx_]

you can use google translate for the following

Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 – Studiu de overclocking | lab501


basically they look at more than just pics of the pcb, they study the components etc.

in his words, the gtx590's circuitry is a joke, vs the hd6990's solid one.

so there is still hope for third party pcb's, cant wait to see what giga and asus will have to offer!!

 

[draemn]

tell me how on heavens earth that the gtx 590beats the 6990 after almost every site was dissapointed with the gtx 590i havent seen any site gives it a victory everyone prefers the 6990 seems like ur a favouriteism of nvidia r do they cuts the check around here what r the suprises thats it full of numerious sites start complaining that their cards r dead when trying to ajust the voltage ive never heard of an ati amd card died in reviews if i was like amd i would even stifle the compitition by taking like say $40 bucks off and just call it a day and see who will buy nshita

1) Products you buy are guaranteed to run in specs... even the 6990 will have the warranty voided if you use the 450w setting. Buying a card to run it out of specs and then bashing it because it doesn't run great is stupid. You can praise a card for running well out of specs, but not bash it for not running out of specs.

2) No, I've seen three reviews that all say the 590 is good in it's own ways and that it is a strong contender to the 6990 because it makes up for the performance difference in other ways.

3) These premium $700 dual GPUs are not designed for the mass market. They should not be compared to the regular fixings as you will ALWAYS find that other combinations beat this out. They don't design premium products to cater to value oriented consumers. They cater to those who just want to spend their $$ on the top dog.

It does suck that nvidia did cut corners on this card when it comes to components, but everything will work great in spec and they needed to get the cost reasonable... so they hurt the o/c potential of this card so it wasn't $900.