Monday, March 14th 2011
GeForce GTX 590 Key Features Revealed
An alleged partner presentation slide leaked to the internet reveals quite a bit more about the GeForce GTX 590 than what we already know. To begin with, it lays to rest speculations surrounding the shader configuration, each of the two GF110 GPUs have all 512 CUDA cores enabled. Next, the full width of the memory interface is utilized, giving you 1536 MB per GPU, or 3 GB of total memory on the card.
The rest are fascinating features, such as a removable cooler shroud that lets you clean the card from time to time (you might need to clean it now and then for the best cooling performance), heatsinks that use vapor-chamber technology, getting rid of those pesky heat-pipes, high-grade 12-layer PCB that uses 2 oz copper layers, and a 10-phase VRM (looks like 4+1 phase per GPU). As expected, the final iteration of the card needs to draw power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. "Barely Street Legal"? Is it because they'll throw you out of LAN parties for having too much of a performance advantage? Hmmm.
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The rest are fascinating features, such as a removable cooler shroud that lets you clean the card from time to time (you might need to clean it now and then for the best cooling performance), heatsinks that use vapor-chamber technology, getting rid of those pesky heat-pipes, high-grade 12-layer PCB that uses 2 oz copper layers, and a 10-phase VRM (looks like 4+1 phase per GPU). As expected, the final iteration of the card needs to draw power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. "Barely Street Legal"? Is it because they'll throw you out of LAN parties for having too much of a performance advantage? Hmmm.
49 Comments on GeForce GTX 590 Key Features Revealed
Not sure I'm liking the whole idea of venting of heat into the case though :/
Seriously Nvidia market department, grow up already...
This may potentially break the noise record set by the 6990. :respect:
Wait, that's not right...
This sounds like a damn good card!
if that so, then HD6990 is in serious trouble.
Let's hope the TDP ain't over 400W. Last time I checked, HD6990 TDP is 375W?
also i highly doubt this card will make a 6990 quake in its boots, i expect the 590 to win but its gonna cost roughly in my estimate at least $200 more then a 6990 so i would HOPE it performs better to be worth the extra performance it gives
Very similar to the GTX 295 revision, with single PCB. Nothing new about the design or cooler system.
Hope cost less than 800 bills.
My next card.. :rolleyes: again
and 512 cores per gpu as i anticipated. now I'm curious is it has 40 or 48 rop's and how many tmu's it has. I'm still suspecting that it's a 570/580 hybrid core as the 295/275 was.
Peen: - "Hmm, do I get the top card from Green or the top card from Red?"
Green: - "I'm barely street legal with my 365w horsepower!"
Peen: - "OMG! BUYZ!"
Those who are serious about high-end hardware, care about specs, and actually use those cards don't care...
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