The GTX 590 NVIDIA dual GPU card thread

[Goodman]

its fud :/

+1 Fudz same as Inquirer... They make "good" articles to read but not to believe in , it is a bit like a good old grand-father story... entertaining but unbelievable

Didnt know up to now, that 6970 had a larger heatsink vs a 580

Same here the funny thing is , is that my 6850 got an HSF with 2 heat pipes , i thought the 6950/70 would have it too since heat pipes give better cooling imo...

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Same here the funny thing is , is that my 6850 got an HSF with 2 heat pipes , i thought the 6950/70 would have it too since heat pipes give better cooling imo...

Its using a vaporchamber, which gives better thermal transfer vs standard heatpipes.

 

[Aceman.au]

Its quiet, too quiet.

It's the big breath before the plunge.

Here the hammer stroke will fall hardest.

So begins the great battle of our time.................................................... for graphics cards

 

[Goodman]

Its using a vaporchamber, which gives better thermal transfer vs standard heatpipes.

Vapor chamber right! forgot about that
It's like Sapphire Vapor-x... add one on my 5750 & it kept the temp really good even with an good overclock

I don't know if a vapor chamber + heat pipes would make best cooler?
Maybe some heat sink maker will try it one day?

 

[Shihab]

A dual Fermi card...
Does that come with a dedicated power plant ?

 

[_JP_]

IIRC the unreleased Voodoo 5 had it's own power adapter, but now we have 1.2kW PSUs, so I don't see the big deal with power draw. It's not like it is impossible to power these cards.

 

[Shihab]

I didn't say it was impossible. But a high power consumption isn't exactly a good feature. Not in the economical sense at least. Specially when the market's all about green technologies.

 

[yogurt_21]

IIRC the unreleased Voodoo 5 had it's own power adapter, but now we have 1.2kW PSUs, so I don't see the big deal with power draw. It's not like it is impossible to power these cards.

you're right it's not impossible, not improbabale, it's not even hard!

my 4 year old 1kw psu is still more than enough to power my rig.

based on that a modern 750-850w could do the same.

buy a good big psu once and use it for years. or you can cheap out on the psu and have to add a new one every time ou upgrade your rig. your choice.

 

[qubit]

buy a good big psu once and use it for years. or you can cheap out on the psu and have to add a new one every time ou upgrade your rig. your choice.

+1, absolutely. That's why I bought my Corsair HX850. Has some awesome reviews and 850W is the absolute minimum it will deliver.

 

[erocker]

This card is going to be very expensive and very limited.

I'm staying put with my 580 as I can't fathom the need for anything more for gaming at this time. Hopefully by years end there will be at least a handful of games that would necessitate an upgrade. We'll see.

 

[Shihab]

+1, absolutely. That's why I bought my Corsair HX850. Has some awesome reviews and 850W is the absolute minimum it will deliver.

orly ? I just bought cuz it looked cool . Good to know I made a good investment in this rig of mine.

Back to the thread's subject. no rumours about the price range yet ?

 

[Spectrum]

no idea but I hope that nvidia doesn't go crazy with the price tag...

 

[_JP_]

I want to see the Direct-Cu II solution on this card. It would kick ass for a µATX solution.

Back to the thread's subject. no rumours about the price range yet ?

How much was the GTX295 on release? I'm guessing near that. Around 750~850€ seems like a probable price range for a nVidia super card.

 

[AsRock]

wow, post something about nvidia and the AMD fanboi's come arunnin' kind of pathetic if you ask me. Just wait till the damn thing is released stop spreading opinions that have no basis in fact at all.

Leafblowers are never silent and that goes for that design too. If they did silent coolers on reference cards it would kill off other companys making money and them selfs too.

To be a company you need to think how you can make money not waste it so reference coolers are 99% always loud by default so they can sell another one with another cooler on it to make some money.

 

[xXxBREAKERxXx]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/03/were-at-pax-east-2011/

 

[qubit]

Leafblowers are never silent and that goes for that design too. If they did silent coolers on reference cards it would kill off other companys making money and them selfs too.

To be a company you need to think how you can make money not waste it so reference coolers are 99% always loud by default so they can sell another one with another cooler on it to make some money.

How does AMD or nvidia make any money out of making a noisy cooler?

It's only the third party cooler manufacturers that benefit. It actually increases the cost, inconvenience and warranty risk to the card buyer and makes the card a less attractive purchase overall.

 

[bokou]

How does AMD or nvidia make any money out of making a noisy cooler?

It's only the third party cooler manufacturers that benefit. It actually increases the cost, inconvenience and warranty risk to the card buyer and makes the card a less attractive purchase overall.

well because they offer a chance for third parties to improve upon their cooler - we get 2508039 different looks, styles, performance numbers, etc and get a lot of choices when it comes time to buy one other than "which model do I want?" We also get "What colors look best with my rig?" and "This one gets a bit hotter but it's quieter."

 

[qubit]

Oh yeah, all those non reference designs, of course, lol. <facepalm>

 

[MicroUnC]

Not sure if this was posted

By - Overclockers.ru

The high degree of secrecy surrounding the preparation for the announcement of GeForce GTX 590, can not recreate the holistic picture cards in one go. Information necessary to collect the bits at the moment the nominal frequency video cards are not yet defined, and the recommended retail price has not been confirmed.

Image of the back of the GeForce GTX 590, leaked to the Web, allows us to judge the presence of three DVI ports and one output mini-DisplayPort. VR-Zone web site complements the description of the exterior of the GeForce GTX 590 has one prime - cover sketch of the cooling system of the graphics card.

The video card will occupy two expansion slots, a fan located in the center. The length of the video card will not exceed 297 mm, according to Singaporean counterparts. Most likely, the text of the original news crept typo, because according to our information, the length of the GeForce GTX 590 will be equal to 279 mm. Especially as the GeForce GTX 295, with which colleagues compare the current novelty, had a length not exceeding 267 mm.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-590-cooler-cover-exposed/11563.html

http://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/40803/Eskiz_kozhuha_sistemy_ohlazhdeniya_GeForce_GTX_590.html

 

[ShiBDiB]

i just wanted to comment cause the thread title bugged me.. isnt just by saying the GTX 590 Thread cover the fact that its a dual gpu card by nvidia?

 

[Dave65]

Umm maybe i'm deaf but my vanilla 580 is damn quiet..

 

[Benetanegia]

considering that a pair of 6950's in crossfire is just behind a pair of GTX 580s in SLi i would bet that the 6990 beats the GTX 590. since its based off of dual 6970 cores which are faster than the 6950's.

I see this kind of claims everywhere and from what I've seen, that's very far from truth. Here's an example from Xbitlabs, GTX570 SLI vs HD6970 CF, the only recent and complete (more than a pair of games tested) SLI vs CF review that I've seen.

SLI setup was found a bit faster, cooler and quieter. The GTX590 will have full GTX580 cores... yeah, underclocked to meet "reasonable" power limits (and so is the HD6990), but the outcome is not known at all.

I remember reading the same things back before GTX295 was released, because the GTX285 and 275 consumed more than 4870, AMD cards scaled a little bit better, etc, etc. When the GTX295 finally came out, it was significantly faster, to the same percentage as the GTX275 was faster then HD4870, although it's cores were underclocked unlike HD4870 X2 cores which ran at full clocks, and it consumed a lot less and was cooler then the X2.

It's a little too early for the claims being made here...

 

[the54thvoid]

Umm maybe i'm deaf but my vanilla 580 is damn quiet..

Yup, mine too. Fan never breaks above 50-55% to keep it at 75-80 degrees tops. My 580 is quieter than most cards i've had. But i have a good case so that does help with temps all round.

 

[qubit]

GTX 590 to be slower than HD 6990?

Here's an interesting opinion on why. And no, it's not another rant by Charlie D, but by Hexus.

GTX 590 has to be faster, right?

So it's a shoo-in that the also-twin-GPU GeForce GTX 590 is going to relieve itself all over the Radeon HD 6990? I don't think that's entirely so, and here's why.

First off, at the time of writing, I'm not privy to official specifications or bound by any NDAs from NVIDIA. I'm simply taking an educated guess on what we may see next week, assuming the rumour mill's launch date of March 22 is correct.

NVIDIA's big-die approach to designing modern graphics cards backfired somewhat with the GeForce GTX 480, released a year ago. The GTX 580 is better, absolutely, but it's merely the 480 with most of the kinks ironed out. NVIDIA has to go with two GTX 580-class chips on one board if it's to wrestle the crown away from AMD with the GTX 590, yet taking the foot-to-the-floor wattage into account, some 250W for a single GPU, the two GF110s can't be running at full GTX 580 speeds of 772MHz core and 4,008MHz memory.

 

[qubit]

Specs!

Here's some specs, courtesy of Hexus again:

Codename D13U-50 GF110/P1020
CUDA Cores 1024
Graphics Clock 612MHz
Processor Clock 1224MHz
Memory Clock 3420MHz
Memory Interface Width 2 x 384-bit
Memory Config 3GB GDDR5
Power Connectors Dual 8-pin
Dimensions 11" x 4.5", Dual Slot