Nvidia is widely known for its gaming GPUs and those Quadro CPUs for engineers and architectures who need some thing upto the task. Nvidia Made powerfull GPUs from many years and the competition b/t AMD and Nvidia is always hot to be at 1st position in GPU market so today we talk about GTX 590 which is a dual GPU card, actually 1st dual GPU card which turn the market as it launched.However, with the significant improvements afforded by the use of low-leakage transistors for non-performance critical components, the revised Fermi GPUs of the GTX 500-series have offered a marked improvement. With their reduced thermal output, it was only a matter of time before we saw Nvidia returning with a range-topping dual-GPU card again. With AMD having played its top-end hand with the Radeon HD 6990 4GB, it's now Team Green’s turn with the GeForce GTX 590 3GB.What’s first apparent is that the GTX 590 3GB is smaller than both the competing HD 6990 4GB and its ageing predecessor, the GTX 295 1,792MB. With a PCB length of 28cmInternally code named Gemini, the GTX 590 blends a pair of fully enabled GF110 cores (each with 512 CUDA cores) with 3GB of GDDR5 to produce what’s billed as the fastest DX11 card on the market. Naturally some sacrifices had to be made in terms of clock speeds – we’ll get into those later - but it makes up for any possible shortcomings with a long list of features. This is NVIDIA’s first official product that supports Surround multi-monitor setups from a single card. Also, the dual GPUs can be set up in such a way that one can process CUDA (PhysX, Folding@Home, transcoding and the like) while the other goes about rendering in-game scenes. In our eyes, the potential here is almost limitless.Alongside all of the usual marketing points like PhysX and 3D Vision, the GTX 590’s true goal is to compete with AMD’s own Radeon HD 6990. In NVIDIA’s eyes they are doing this on several fronts and not only from a performance perspective either. One of their main intents was to offer a better overall gaming experience by decreasing the acoustical profile and slimming down dimensions. In addition, the decision has been made to offer the GTX 590 at the same price as the HD 6990: $699. If this sounds like a tall order for a dual GPU design it’s only a little longer than single-GPU GTX 580 1.5GB cards, and at 1,034g it's 112g lighter than the HD 6990 4GB.Unlike the GTX 295 1,792MB, which used two slightly cut-down GT200b GPUs, Nvidia has chosen to equip the GTX 590 3GB with two full-specification GF110 GPUs; the same as those found in top-end single-GPU GTX 580 1.5GB cards.Internally code named Gemini, the GTX 590 blends a pair of fully enabled GF110 cores (each with 512 CUDA cores) with 3GB of GDDR5 to produce what’s billed as the fastest DX11 card on the market. Naturally some sacrifices had to be made in terms of clock speeds – we’ll get into those later - but it makes up for any possible shortcomings with a long list of features. This is NVIDIA’s first official product that supports Surround multi-monitor setups from a single card. Also, the dual GPUs can be set up in such a way that one can process CUDA (PhysX, Folding@Home, transcoding and the like) while the other goes about rendering in-game scenes. In our eyes, the potential here is almost limitless.Alongside all of the usual marketing points like PhysX and 3D Vision, the GTX 590’s true goal is to compete with AMD’s own Radeon HD 6990. In NVIDIA’s eyes they are doing this on several fronts and not only from a performance perspective either. One of their main intents was to offer a better overall gaming experience by decreasing the acoustical profile and slimming down dimensions. If this sounds like a tall order for a dual GPU design.Now, it’s great to get all of those resources (times two) on GeForce GTX 590. However, while the GeForce GTX 580 employs a 772 MHz graphics clock and 1002 MHz memory clock, the GPUs on GTX 590 slow things down to 607 MHz and 853 MHz, respectively.As a result, this card’s performance isn’t anywhere near what you’d expect from two of Nvidia’s fastest single-GPU flagships. That might be alright, though. After all, AMD launched Radeon HD 6970 as a GeForce GTX 570-contender; the 580 sat in a league of its own. So, although AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 comes very close to doubling the performance of the company’s quickest single-GPU cards, GeForce GTX 590 doesn’t have to do the same thing in order to be competitive at the price point AMD already established and Nvidia plans to match.Nvidia GTX 590 was a mile stone in GPU history and 1st dual GPU card ever.
Lets run some tests on it.......
- Excellent Performance.
- Not lengthy as HD 6990.
- Multi-Display support. (3 tested).
- Top class build quality.
- Still Expensive.
- High Power Consumption.
