Wednesday, March 9th 2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Date is March 22
The dust seems to have settled down, after AMD's launch of the Radeon HD 6990, extending the red-team's performance lead previously held precariously by the Radeon HD 5970, to the GeForce GTX 580. It looks like NVIDIA will challenge the performance leadership with GeForce GTX 590, a dual-GPU graphics card that uses two GF110 GPUs (the ones on GTX 570 and GTX 580), for an SLI-on-a-stick solution. Rumors of NVIDIA working on this card became concrete as early as in November 2010, when NVIDIA's reference board became public for the first time.
Latest reports suggest that NVIDIA has chosen March 22 as the launch day of GeForce GTX 590. Incidentally, that is also the launch date of EA/Crytek's much-hyped, initially DirectX 9 action/shooter game, Crysis 2. GeForce GTX 590 uses two GF110, though the shader configuration and clock speeds are not known. Since NVIDIA is chasing the top-spot, you can expect the most optimal configuration for the GF110s. A total of 3 GB (1536 MB per GPU system) on board, and NVIDIA's workhorse PCI-E bridge, nForce 200 will be the traffic cop and radio station between the two GPUs. The card will be able to do 3DVision Surround (NVIDIA's multi-display single head technology comparable to ATI Eyefinity) on its own, without needing a second card.
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Latest reports suggest that NVIDIA has chosen March 22 as the launch day of GeForce GTX 590. Incidentally, that is also the launch date of EA/Crytek's much-hyped, initially DirectX 9 action/shooter game, Crysis 2. GeForce GTX 590 uses two GF110, though the shader configuration and clock speeds are not known. Since NVIDIA is chasing the top-spot, you can expect the most optimal configuration for the GF110s. A total of 3 GB (1536 MB per GPU system) on board, and NVIDIA's workhorse PCI-E bridge, nForce 200 will be the traffic cop and radio station between the two GPUs. The card will be able to do 3DVision Surround (NVIDIA's multi-display single head technology comparable to ATI Eyefinity) on its own, without needing a second card.
103 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Date is March 22
Boy, do the people at nVidia know about perfect timing :p
I'm guessing both cards will be in very limited supply the next few weeks, and will be used for PR only purposes by both companies...
Personally, I've always preferred using dual single GPU cards in SLI to getting one of these monsters, unless you're shooting for quad SLI or Crossfire, but for the res. most ppl play at that may be too much.
But seriously, these cards (6990 & GTX590) are awesome, but (sadly) not needed. My HD6870 Crossfire setup can push anything on the market with all the eyecandy maxed out, and even one 6870 doesn't get choked up at all. These are benching cards, nothing more. :ohwell:
My 2 cents for what its worth.
nForce 200 chip they at least can benefit from a little die shrink
well I guess NVIDIA somewhere have some store filled with these chips
on serious note, it will be 4870x2 vs gtx 295, all over again where hd 6990 will be faster in higher resolution or multi monitor config
Should be interesting once the reviews start coming out:)
If the 590 is slightly faster, who says AMD doesn't counter with a higher clock card... ;)
I find it amazing how they are able to handle the thermal envelop involved with these beasts (590/6990). So much muscle, but as others have said, nothing to push
but I cannot see this card being sold under 850 dollars(maybe 800), with a 768bit memory bus and 3GB
BTW Razer,how did you get a pick of my X mother in law for your avatar pic?
:roll::roll::roll:
7900gx2 9800gx2 295 -> 590.it is extremely expensive, the price for those die's are really high, the powerconsumtion and everything allthogether makes it impossible to stay within PCI-e specs and beat 6990, unless they scale good downclocked with voltage(or in other words, the last mhz's of 580 required alot of voltage)
384 bit doesnt help out on the PCB design.
The card released will most likely be very different from the one pictured.
but 570 sli still pretty nice though, if it priced under $700, it will be more competitive..
ATi have had as dual cards
1,The 128 Rage Maxx released 1998
2,3870x2 released 05-06
3,4870x2 released 07
4.5970 released 09
5,6990 released 1week ago
Hope that clears the argument of which brand has had more dual cards out.
alternatively nvdia could lower the buss to 320 bit or even 256 bit and use faster GDDR5 memory.