OC3D Review Asus GTX590

[nepas]

What driver were you using?As there appear to be some problems!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRo-1VFMcbc

"oh ****" @18 secs

Looks like the drivers supplied with the card are faulty,Nv released some new drivers this morning(just for this card)

EDIT:just noticed the GPUZ screenshot,you were using the bad drivers,your lucky it didnt blow on you,as well as that vid I posted its happened to other reviewers as well,TPU for one)

 

[dugdiamond]

whoa - £600 @aria

for an extra £60 i could get THREE MSI GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II OC editions, and have them in tri-SLI

 

[yuri04]

Not unless you will be modding the PCB

(at least if this would be possible in this case

)

The GTX560 like the 460 only supports dual SLI.

 

[Ya93sin]

But Tri-SLI doesn't have the greatest scaling, so the performance wouldn't be so close.

 

[dugdiamond]

at £600, i just think its a bit steep

EDIT: i cannot justify paying that amount of money to play ONLY about a dozen "worth-playing" games that would benefit from such a card!

 

[UkGouki]

whoa - £600 @aria

for an extra £60 i could get THREE MSI GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II OC editions, and have them in tri-SLI

dont you mean 3 480gtx's?? there the same price as 560s but you would need a monster psu and hell of a good cooling case or waterblocks on them...

 

[CueBall]

I think nvidia did listen to his users for once. The card may be beaten by a 6990 on very high resolutions however the card runs a lot cooler. There isnt a vacum cleaner in your pc going around. Secondly if you look at all the different benchmark out there it seems nvidia aimed at the 1920x1080 resolution. This is the most used resolution and if you look closely then the 590 beats the 6990 most of the time. So well done job nvidia. Great card.

 

[sleeper52]

Tom,

Now that you've tested both GTX 590 and AMD HD6990, which one would you recommend in a WATERCOOLED setup?

 

[Ya93sin]

I think nvidia did listen to his users for once. The card may be beaten by a 6990 on very high resolutions however the card runs a lot cooler. There isnt a vacum cleaner in your pc going around. Secondly if you look at all the different benchmark out there it seems nvidia aimed at the 1920x1080 resolution. This is the most used resolution and if you look closely then the 590 beats the 6990 most of the time. So well done job nvidia. Great card.

It's a bit odd imo, if you are going to be spending £600 on a GPU you would think the average user of that GPU would have a res of at least 1900x1200

 

[Icekube]

whoa - £600 @aria

for an extra £60 i could get THREE MSI GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II OC editions, and have them in tri-SLI

It would be awesome if you could run more than 2 in sli, sadly there lies the limitation of the 560

At the end of the day it's down to how much money you are happy to part with against performance, a 590 is around £575 on Scan, so about £35-40 more than a hair dryer, sorry 6990, and £220ish less than a 580 sli.

In most games by the looks of it the 580 sli cleans house, with the 6990 performing better than the 590, but I personally could not live with a wailing banshee in my rig, and I'm not prepared to splash out £800ish on 2 x 580's, so I'm more than happy to pay a little extra to get a 590 over the 6990 for the substantially reduced noise and more refined drivers.

Having said that I'd love to see someone do a direct comparison with 2 x 570's against a 590 and 6990, as it does seem to be the best bang for £/$ setup from what I have seen.

 

[Rastalovich]

What driver were you using?As there appear to be some problems!

"oh ****" @18 secs

Looks like the drivers supplied with the card are faulty,Nv released some new drivers this morning(just for this card)

EDIT:just noticed the GPUZ screenshot,you were using the bad drivers,your lucky it didnt blow on you,as well as that vid I posted its happened to other reviewers as well,TPU for one)

I made mention to this the other day. To my knowledge there is both a bios and driver revision, that in fairness nvidia should have contacted reviewers about atleast the drivers. The bios is less important in this case.

There's also been a new GPUZ out this week that shows the card specs of both the dual cards that much better. I would hope the memory overclock in todays review is an oversight of GPUZ.

You can "alternatively" power the 8pin connectors to adopt more power (if you care less about that sorta thing) and get 580 based clocks out of it. But unless you manage the cooling, I'd not suggest it for 24/7.

The price of these dual cards is fantastic, but to be fair, dual cards are by nature high priced.

I'll go back to it again, just with the 6990/xfire/6970/xfire OC3D reviews, some of the graphs are still showing significant drops in framerates for overclocked runs in benches of the games - which just can't be the case. Something is definitely not right.

Imo you can pick either of these dual cards. If you favor dx11 games, I'd get the 6990 (well not me cos I like physx and quality), and if you play dx9/10 you can pick the GTX590 or 6990. Both of them are spanking performance for what they are, and if you complain about the price of both, you really aught not be considering them.

Fastest single gpu card for me everytime.

 

[chaotic_russ]

where is the video review ?

 

[DragonPC]

holy smoke, thats a beast of a card

 

[CrissTM]

hehe, exactly. were's the video.

and bth, i would love to see in the banchmarks a bad company 2.

 

[VonBlade]

Tom,

Now that you've tested both GTX 590 and AMD HD6990, which one would you recommend in a WATERCOOLED setup?

Well the primary problem with the HD6990 is heat and noise. A quick look at the graphs will show that the HD6990 whips the GTX590 if there is a difference. So Watercooling solving the heat/noise issue it's an easy pick for the HD6990.

But you'd still be better off going GTX570 SLI, assuming your budget wont stretch to GTX580s in SLI

 

[VonBlade]

and bth, i would love to see in the banchmarks a bad company 2.

We'll be rejigging our game benchmarks soon and BBC2 is likely to make an appearance. Although personally I can tell you the GTX590 will eat it for breakfast at any setting.

 

[sleeper52]

Well the primary problem with the HD6990 is heat and noise. A quick look at the graphs will show that the HD6990 whips the GTX590 if there is a difference. So Watercooling solving the heat/noise issue it's an easy pick for the HD6990.

But you'd still be better off going GTX570 SLI, assuming your budget wont stretch to GTX580s in SLI

In all honesty, I am considering GTX 570s in SLI. The problem doing this is that i would have to buy two waterblocks thereby increasing the cost and power consumption. if you consider that a 6990 performs the same and perhaps more when overclocked, you would end up with the lower cost and better value.

 

[CrissTM]

We'll be rejigging our game benchmarks soon and BBC2 is likely to make an appearance. Although personally I can tell you the GTX590 will eat it for breakfast at any setting.

as far as i can tell, bad company 2 do likes amd/ati more, buth my problem r amd/ati drivers.

my question is if a single gtx570 (for now, sli later) will be stronger than a gtx 295 (never mind the dx 10/11)?!

i do play bc2 (2 much) and i dont know if it worth the jump.

 

[Icekube]

Can't believe for the 1st time TTL seems to be pretty much the last reviewer to put a 590 vid up

as far as i can tell, bad company 2 do likes amd/ati more, buth my problem r amd/ati drivers.

my question is if a single gtx570 (for now, sli later) will be stronger than a gtx 295 (never mind the dx 10/11)?!

i do play bc2 (2 much) and i dont know if it worth the jump.

I play bc2 quite a bit, at 1920 x 1080 on a 24" with everything at max, and I'm getting between 80-90 average fps with a max of around 110, if that's any help to you as far as single 570's go.

 

[tinytomlogan]

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

You may well have but if you actually test them the scores drop like a brick once you push further because theres not enough juice to fuel them properly.......

This card deffo wouldnt go any further and keep increasing the scores.

Can't believe for the 1st time TTL seems to be pretty much the last reviewer to put a 590 vid up

YouTube is being a pitFa today. That and Im meant to be having some time off!

Game wise VB is correct and we will being bringing some new games in to test with, we just want to choose wisely.

We are waiting to test Crysis 2 and Shift 2 to see if they are demanding enough and not just gay console ports like MOH and COD.

@ NEPAS

We tested originally on the beta driver and then again on the new driver after it was released, I just forgot to GPU-Z the new drivers. not bad considering the card was only here 36 hours too :S