GTX 590 running 2560x1600

[Drethstoff]

Hi all new member, just wondering how long you think the 590 will be able to power games at 2560x1600 at close to the highest settings?

 

[MacLeod]

Should be for a while. Thats still a HOSS of a video card and is a decent amount faster than a GTX680 (around 10% depending on the game) so thats still a lot of horsepower. Id say itll be able to give you good frame rates on very high settings for a few years to come. May have to turn down the settings on a couple games cause stuff like Far Cry 3 are extremely demanding but the vast majority of games coming out are console ports that dont exactly push the graphics envelope.

 

[Drethstoff]

Kk thanks for the reply. The numbers I was finding always seemed to be different for that resolution. Have a shiny new Dell U3011 to order within the next week or 2.

 

[MacLeod]

Oh man Im jealous. I want one of those so bad. Thankfully Im married or Id spend my income tax refund on one of those beauties (or the HP 30") in a heartbeat! But since I dont want to get divorced Ill stick with my 25" HP for another year I think. I need a GPU upgrade before moving in resolution anyway.

 

[Drethstoff]

Oh man Im jealous. I want one of those so bad. Thankfully Im married or Id spend my income tax refund on one of those beauties (or the HP 30") in a heartbeat! But since I dont want to get divorced Ill stick with my 25" HP for another year I think. I need a GPU upgrade before moving in resolution anyway.

You could always take the 30in in the divorce settlement and u win sort of. Probably gonna lose the house though.

 

[ccaution]

I think it's the vram (essentially 1.5gb) that will "bite" you first, mate :/

 

[MacLeod]

You could always take the 30in in the divorce settlement and u win sort of. Probably gonna lose the house though.

LOL! That would almost be worth it. :lol:

I think it's the vram (essentially 1.5gb) that will "bite" you first, mate :/

That can be a hang up but I dont think itll be too bad. 2GB is enough for the vast majority of games but 2560x1600 will be pushing the VRAM a little. I still think it would be ok and not that big a penalty. I think the raw GPU horsepower will still be enough to overcome it. If you look at benchmarks, the 590 is still faster than the 680 and the 680 can still rip thru anything at 2560x1600 so I think itll still be fine.

 

[ccaution]

You could be right, but no mater how much "horsepower" you have (and you DO have with those GF110s), if you run out of memory it's game over, because then the card starts moving usefull data at the system's RAM, back and forth, which is a disaster, performance-wise.

I've seen my 6970 using 1.2GB++ @ 1920x1200 so that's why I suspect that it's the ram that will hold you back sooner or later. I hope I'm wrong

 

[Drethstoff]

If it does start to bottom out on memory usage I can reduce the AA and hopefully with nice, big resolution I won't miss it lol.

I figure I can hijack my own thread? Anyway, Would using a secondary 1080 display cause any weird issues or make it hard to use both monitors at once?

 

[ccaution]

You 're right, AA is a bit of overkill on those resolutions.

The "single core" 5XX series were rather useless @ multi-monitor setups, but you're SLI so you can enable surround 3D and stuff and you'd be good as gold, with the second monitor.

 

[Drethstoff]

You 're right, AA is a bit of overkill on those resolutions.

The "single core" 5XX series were rather useless @ multi-monitor setups, but you're SLI so you can enable surround 3D and stuff and you'd be good as gold, with the second monitor.

Kk. yeah figures they would allow single gpu's to run surround 1 generation after i bought this card lol.