OC3D Review Asus GTX590

[tinytomlogan]

Following hot on the heels of the dual-GPU AMD HD6990, nVidia bring us the GTX590 twin-GPU card, the successor to the GTX295.



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[cbiltsouris]

sweet mother of jesus!

 

[jaba453]

that thing is BEAST!!!!

 

[Stryker64]

Wow they really turned down the GPUs in this thing.

 

[cbiltsouris]

Just imagine that thing with a waterblock...

 

[tinytomlogan]

Ill post the F@H stats here in a bit but basically 6800 WU's were 13k on each core. All the details are in the video though. (had to go careful with uploading too early on this one but the vid will be up asap)

 

[Stryker64]

Just imagine that thing with a waterblock...

I doubt it will make much difference, heat isn't an issue with this card from the looks of it. If only Nvidia gave an extra 6pin to supplement the GPUs for better overclocking. Or if AMD had a cooler as effective as the Nvidia one.

 

[MorbiousStone]

Nvidia is clearly the loser and about the heat and noise after market/vendor cards will fix that.... and hey if you have a couple of cpu fans lying around you could easily mount them to the stock 6990 MacGyver style.... wonder why nobodies covering the evga duel 460 2 win or what not

 

[Stryker64]

On a side note Tom is there any chance that you'll be using Crysis 2 as a new benchmarking game?

 

[cbiltsouris]

Why is it clocked so low?

 

[Blackwhite]

I'll stick with my gtx570 and will buy another one if needed.

I'm a bit disappointed of new Nvidia card.

 

[cbiltsouris]

So essentiallly my 580s can eat this thing?

 

[Stryker64]

Why is it clocked so low?

It's only running on two 8pins and the PCIe slot, so the GPUs can't get enough juice to pump up the clock rates.

@ sources95

Your 580s will eat this as a light snack.

 

[cbiltsouris]

Wow I didn't realize how much by, I reckon wants other manufacters such as msi and Asus will do a whole revamp of the Baird and have it clocked at around the same as the 6990 really strange that nvodia would do this :/

 

[wraithien]

AMD might have issues with noise and power however I'm very surprised Nvidia haven't been able to beat them with this given how well their other cards perform. One other thing i had to note Tom was you mentioned the AMD 6990 was priced at £599 i havn't seen one over £550. It's more disappointing therefore that Nvidia are charging more for a card which cant outperform its competitor.

 

[Captaincough]

Water block's already confirmed for the 6990.

 

[Ya93sin]

Looking at reviews from other places on the internet, some have the 590 beating the 6990, while others have it vice-versa.

It does seem that the 6990 is better value for money, but I'm sure when other manufacturers bring out custom coolers and such that will make a difference to the heat and noise issue, making the 6990 an even better buy, depending on the price of course

And I thought £5 was the lowest note, 600 of them is £3k

 

[Bungral]

Hmmm I've owned a GTX295 and also a couple of 4870x2s but I think I'll be giving the dual GPU cards a miss this time around.

The heat of the 4870x2 literally heated up my room to uncomfortable levels. Can't be dealing with that again from a 6990 and the power just isn't there in the 590 judging from this review.

I'll read a few more later for comparison sake.

I remember getting the 295 in the £4**'s and the 4870x2 in the high £3**'s.

Prices are now obscene.

 

[JezEngland]

Thanks Tom & OC3D staff

 

[Andrew Moore]

Had these 590s sat at 800/1600/4000 stable and issue free so either these are fantastic silicon or yours a little erm.. lacking.

Either way, 6990 average OC headroom 10% (830-910mhz ish.) gtx590 OC head room 32%.. (607-801mhz) Results = horrendously quick and I'm flabbergasted :|