6990 vs. GTX 590

[KapteinFruit]

I didn't believe my own eyes when I looked at the graphs for the GTX 590... AMD finally got the performance crown this generation! I would never have thought that because of the GTX 580. I thought the 6990 would be crushed by the GTX 590, but look how wrong I was. Did you guys expect this outcome or are you guys as shocked as me? But in the end, as TTL said, I would've gone for the GTX 590 (If I could afford it. lol). With waterblocks the story would be different, though. I'm wondering if the GTX 590 can steal a bit from the performance crown when we get to see how the GTX 590 performs in SLI. What do you guys think?

[marick626]

People that are spending that much on cards wan't performance. And that is currently the red team. I couldn't care less if its a bit noisy. I use headsets. As far as performance, I too was expecting the 590 to have better performance, perhaps with better drivers, the gap will thin out, however, I doubt it. AMD is known for their crappy drivers, but if they can pump out as much performance with bad drivers, then imagine what it will do once they get some quality drivers out.

However, there are things the green team will always have an advantage on. Specifically, folding, better AA and PhysX.

[SnW]

Originally Posted by hdaviator

However, there are things the green team will always have an advantage on. Specifically, folding,

This will change

[JCBenton]

I think it's a 590 for me. Cooler, quieter, (I don't have my headphones on 24/7 and heat can bother me) smaller and I'll get to try out their nifty features for once. We're at the point where benchmarks are at acceptable framerates even with certain things enabled that you could turn down and get a massive performance increase. It also doesn't look like game developers give two quacking ducks; cards we purchase now will likely be more future proof than they previously were. Besides, if not having to worry about temperatures and noise is the tradeoff for a few lost frames-per-second on the highest possible settings, so be it. On top of that, even the worst case scenarios seem playable. Sure, I could also go for single GPU sli, but getting a 590 or a 6990 means more free bays.

[Rastalovich]

Originally Posted by SnW

This will change

We've been told this for years. It's about freakin time stanford talked to amd tbh. There are a hell of a load of powerful gpus out there that need exploiting.

[SnW]

Originally Posted by Rastalovich

We've been told this for years. It's about freakin time stanford talked to amd tbh. There are a hell of a load of powerful gpus out there that need exploiting.

I couldn´t agree more mate! its been ridiculous how long this is taking

just look at the shaders the Ati cards have yet they can´t get a nice PPD out of it

[JezEngland]

it's like 2 ball games on 1 court, keeping each other in the game. Nvidia releases 580, winner, AMD 6990, winner

[Stryker64]

Originally Posted by Rastalovich

We've been told this for years. It's about freakin time stanford talked to amd tbh. There are a hell of a load of powerful gpus out there that need exploiting.

I know, seriously Stanford is just ignoring half of the GPU market effectively when they don't release AMD F@H.

[S_I_N]

seriously look at how underclocked each core is. Those are specially BINNED cores so they should be easily oc'd to beat the pants off the 6990. We need to wait for oc'd tests before we can say this. I truly believe Nvidia still has the crown and until AMD can control power consumption and noise better I'll stay Green. Trust me I wish it was better for the Red team as I am AMD and want to try dual gpu's but my sanity from the noise pollution is most important.

Back to topic even at the small margin Amd wins by a small oc to say 650core from the stock 612 core would IMHO blow AMD away. And AMD runs its cores at 800ish.

[JezEngland]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAYQ3TzOlb8

Consider when we use Anti Aliasing nVidia gains the more we use, consider the other features too