GeForce GTX 590 is the confirmed name of NVIDIA's coming graphics card flagship. With dual GF110 GPUs the beafy graphics card will offer 1024 CUDA cores and 3GB memory. Perhaps the most exciting is that the launch is set for February, in the same timeframe as AMD Radeon HD 6990 is expected to arrive.
30°
10°
10°
30°
Ad 
20°
I want to know the price, if it's 6 large, im in
Your 480 should have arrived by now, no? You'd have to pay for shipping again.
Lol, my videocard history is kind of weird.
6200 -> 7600 GT -> 2x 7600 GT -> 8800 GT (died) -> 8800 GTS -> GTX 280 -> STEP UP -> GTX 295 -> RMA -> GTX 480.
2011 will be sad for you, ATI has all teh exclusives like battlefield3. Trololo.
:D
This generation of DX11 is a prime example of this. 68xx/69xx were touted to destroy nVidia. But then the 580/570 come out of nowhere and AMD cards look really weak compared to the performance you get with nVidia. The 560 Ti just released and that pretty much has AMD's market segment in a stranglehold as nVidia has the best performing cards in every price category. The performance:price ratio is truly amazing. nVidia has superior Tessellation and in general is faster than the AMD price equivalent. Really, there is no reason at all to go AMD in 2011.
I think 90% of the PC's I've built for friends have been equipt with AMD cards.
4870s, 5850s, all the good shit.
=p
Though, I've usually stuck with ATI, since they usually have the upper hand when I'm shopping around (I don't care what brand is it, as long as it offers a better bang for buck).
It's a constant tug-of-war between the two and no-one really holds onto the crown for long.
nVidia seems to be reclaiming their throne this year.
EVGA <3
Their customer support people are awesome. That whole company is full of awesome people.
Unlike those flimsy Integer Men. >.>
The RAM has to be split 50/50 per GPU, and the data on both GPU's RAM has to be identical (I THINK)
My GTX 295 had an advertised (total) 1.7 GB, so I'd technically only have ~850 MB of RAM up for grabs in a game (or so GTA IV tells me).
I was playing Metro 2033 on max settings and that uses all 1.5 GB of RAM on my 480.
Is it really needed right now? By the time VRAM would be used up to that point, plenty more generations of video cards would've come out.
The only game I've seen use over 1GB of VRAM was GTA4 on the PC due to its horribly unoptimised code.
Regardless, it's gonna be really interesting who comes out on top.
And actually if you do multi-monitor display at high resolutions, and even more so in 3D, that takes a lot of mem. And it's future proofing the cards.
If you work in the game/film industry the more RAM on the GPU the better also.
I gave my daughter my "old" 12gb i7 930 with an AMD 5850, she hasn't used it for gaming except for a bit of Mass Effect. She's always on the PS3.
I have a Steam account and a bunch of games, but I currently prefer the games on PS3. The PS3 is my first ever console, but I've played pretty much all of them since the days of the Telstar, Odyssey, Atari 2600 etc. But until this generation I'd always been primarily a PC gamer, started with the Apple ][ where I wrote my very first game.
The GTX 590 BETTER support a 3 monitor 3D set up all by it's self and if it doesn't then NVIDIA is FAIL. The GTX 580 is $530 but does not support a 3 monitor 3D set up unless you buy another $530 card.
The GTX 590 is gonna be around $600 to $700 bucks and that's far too much cash not to have 3 monitor 3D support when a HD 6970 for $370 will give you (3 screen) Eyefinity support right out the box with your CHOICE of 3D software available.
The HD 6990 will support 6 screen Eyefinity right out the box just like the HD 5970 and HD 5870 Eyefinity models. Sure the GTX 590 will be one hell of a card but it better come with all the bells and whistles cause Nvidia loves forcing gamers to buy 2 cards to do 3 screen 3D gaming where AMD only requires ONE.
Gigabyte GTX 560 ti Super Overclock SLI is the best gaming option out there....... right after the HD 6950 Crossfire w/ both cards flashed to HD 6970 bios. Nvidia or AMD you can't go wrong either way as their products this gen are FANTASTIC!!
However im interested to see how the dual card offerings from both companies stack up against each other next month. I would consider going with the 590 if its a similar price to 6990 and better performance
Nvidia had to make a GTX 590 cause the HD 5970 is still killing the GTX 580.
nvidia makes good products but they have their head so far up their own ass they can taste yesterday's breakfast.