Oh, f* typical Charlie again
I've just read Charlie's anti nvidia rant about the 590 and I have to comment on it, it's so annoying.
GTX 480 released: he's all over it, criticizing it for high power use etc.
GTX 580 released: nothing. He's quiet as a mouse. No article, nothing. The 580 turned out to be a fine card, didn't it? In fact, so fine, that I've just dropped £400 on one and it's wonderful. I'll be posting about it, soon.
HD 6990 released: powerhungry, hot and loud m/f of a card. In fact, quite an inelegant brute force approach to performance according to
Tom's Hardware. Ah, but that's all right with Charlie when AMD do this, innit?
GTX 590 released: once again he's all over it criticizing it for high power use, broken architecture etc. But hang on, this suffers all the same power issues as the 6990, but likely with a much quieter fan. Seriously, I think this guy needs a shrink.
The real problem is that we need next gen 28nm process technologies to make these advanced architectures work to their fullest. It's as simple as that.
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/03/22/nvidia-gtx590-cant-beat-a-hd6990/
From Tom's review of the 6990:
We’ve seen some elegant high-performance graphics cards from AMD, but this is not one of them. It brute-forces performance like a broadsword through cloth.
So, what does it take to dissipate the heat generated by a 375 W card?
Apparently, it takes a noise chart uglier than sin itself.
The problem is that AMD doesn’t use a graceful ramp. It instead steps fan speed up and down to address thermal demands. As a result, you hear the board’s cooler accelerating and decelerating like an engine when the driver downshifts coming up to a stop light.
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