Wednesday, March 9th 2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Date is March 22
The dust seems to have settled down, after AMD's launch of the Radeon HD 6990, extending the red-team's performance lead previously held precariously by the Radeon HD 5970, to the GeForce GTX 580. It looks like NVIDIA will challenge the performance leadership with GeForce GTX 590, a dual-GPU graphics card that uses two GF110 GPUs (the ones on GTX 570 and GTX 580), for an SLI-on-a-stick solution. Rumors of NVIDIA working on this card became concrete as early as in November 2010, when NVIDIA's reference board became public for the first time.
Latest reports suggest that NVIDIA has chosen March 22 as the launch day of GeForce GTX 590. Incidentally, that is also the launch date of EA/Crytek's much-hyped, initially DirectX 9 action/shooter game, Crysis 2. GeForce GTX 590 uses two GF110, though the shader configuration and clock speeds are not known. Since NVIDIA is chasing the top-spot, you can expect the most optimal configuration for the GF110s. A total of 3 GB (1536 MB per GPU system) on board, and NVIDIA's workhorse PCI-E bridge, nForce 200 will be the traffic cop and radio station between the two GPUs. The card will be able to do 3DVision Surround (NVIDIA's multi-display single head technology comparable to ATI Eyefinity) on its own, without needing a second card.
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Latest reports suggest that NVIDIA has chosen March 22 as the launch day of GeForce GTX 590. Incidentally, that is also the launch date of EA/Crytek's much-hyped, initially DirectX 9 action/shooter game, Crysis 2. GeForce GTX 590 uses two GF110, though the shader configuration and clock speeds are not known. Since NVIDIA is chasing the top-spot, you can expect the most optimal configuration for the GF110s. A total of 3 GB (1536 MB per GPU system) on board, and NVIDIA's workhorse PCI-E bridge, nForce 200 will be the traffic cop and radio station between the two GPUs. The card will be able to do 3DVision Surround (NVIDIA's multi-display single head technology comparable to ATI Eyefinity) on its own, without needing a second card.
103 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Date is March 22
its about time NVidia released another dual GPU card.
Let's get this monster fight started!!
Heat - Very High
Performance - Very High
Price - Very High
Noise - ???
There is no chance NV would release a dual gpu card after AMD's unveiling unless they were sure it would win the title of fastest card. Power wont matter to them. And given AMD have dropped the ball on power consunption with the 6990, expect 590 to burst the ball.
It's now like a soap opera. I wouldn't buy one of either but it sure is fun waiting and watching the numbers.
- A dual/triple fan cooler that exhausts inside the case (more likely)
- A triple slot graphics card with a vent, just so it could have a single-fan exhaust system like GTX 295 single-PCB (less likely)
Edit: Looks like it's got dual-slot bracket:So it's the first bullet point. I expect the card to be about as loud as WindForce 3X coolers from Gigabyte.
Anyway, I thinking I'm starting to change my views about dual gpu graphics cards and starting to see the errors in my previous argument about them. Hopefully these new cards won't starting failing on me like the previous generation.
* It wouldn't even be a delay, because releadse date had not been announced yet.