In part two of our look at insane GPUs at mental resolutions, we're putting the GTX590 through its paces.



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triple screen gameplay looks epic! Great review as always Quote

looks great, but as usual (lol) i have my concerns...

590s are dual GPU

2 are used in this sli test - cos that is the only way nvidia can run triple monitor setups

very expensive (~£1100)

HD6990 are also dual GPU

a single card is needed for triple eyefinity setups...... AND ONLY ONE WAS USED

half the price (of the nvidia counterpart) for tri-monitor (~£560)

and judging by the benchmarks - the 6990 wins (due to the forementioned)Quote

Single 590 test was with tripple screens.... So errrrm ONLY ONE WAS USED

Might want to read the review or at least check your facts before ranting Quote

i was just wondering why the benches from the PowerColor HD6990 Crossfire Review weren't included in the stats, and would be curious to see how they (or similar) would measure up in eyefinity mode

6990CF_eyefinity vs 590SLI_surround

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Good god .____. if the 590 is now ahead...does that mean ween the MARS II comes out.....I would hate to work for ATI after that XDQuote

I've been saying all along that Nvidia was King of the Hill even if the ATI was a few fps better in benches back when first released the noise/heat ration between the two made Green Team the clear winner. Now since drivers for both have been fixed Green is ahead in all aspects. I'm not going to say it........

oh hell yeah I am

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I don't get the charts,

Gtx 590 sli 5970*1080

Then gtx 590 5970*1080

Then another just gtx 590 (and this one is wayyy above the others in the chart, and the sli gets lower fps then the others... I'm confused is the chart labeled wrong?.......Quote

I've noticed a repeating oc3d charting anomaly going way back to when the amd 6xxx series was launched. It'd be something only the in-house reviewers can look at really. Something being lower fps when you decrease the demand - something to that effect. But hey, I'm sure oced will review their reviews over time.

Mentioned in the review tho, you do get some crazy unexpected results sometimes, and it can be down to drivers/coding of the games. (in my opinion, I've been begging reviewers, not just on here, to look at the way they deploy windows cos it has things in it that will hamper performance on seemingly random occasions. you see it when you bench rigs.)

Anywho, over the 2 tripple screen reviews, both stables are pumping out fps that game-coders can't keep up with! It's going to leave pc-gamers demanding more quality textures, more filtering, higher resolutions and detail and better programing on a whole.

Apart from the prices, which I've always stood by the reasoning that if you can afford 3x quality monitors and 1 or 2 of these cards from either stable - £50/£100 means very little to you, your girlfriend still isn't going to speak to you for a month whichever you get. Pricing isn't that important at this end of the market - imo. You don't pose the question 6850 or 6990 ? You're in one market or the other. Imo anyway.

What it all boils down to for me, is that shelling out onzes of cash on setups including these things, both camps cover the playable-fps, the only thing that remains is the in-game quality, and to be fair AMD are on a loser from the get-go. Lower quality samples and no PhysX just as a starter. Spend big bucks and settle for less quality ? Why would you ?

Like to know how long it takes to get used to using 3 screens for gaming tho Quote

did you ever wonder why AMD's 6990 is a lot cheaper (496£ at SCAN) than NVIDIA's GTX 590 (568£ at SCAN) that's 72£ a 115 US, well that's because AMD have realised that they have cocked it up with the 6990 and not to mention that you don't get 3D vision surround which is amazing with a three monitor setup or the Physx which is also amazing on some game like Mafia 2, so the way I see it is that AMD are playing catch-up with both Intel and Nvidia and they really need to pull their socks up soon.

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Good review, there is no denying the 590 is a beast and if I had the money i'd buy it over the 6990 any day.

I'm not interested in a card that sounds like a hoover and is only slightly faster as in 2-3 FPS that you wouldn't physically notice the difference, just to say that I have a faster card, silence is bliss and the 6990 ain't.

I think we need to see a review of a 6990 and a 590 running together on a BBM though, just for laughs. Quote

I think that the gtx 590 that is way ahead, is just running at 1920x1080Quote

Oh god... your going to make me buy a 590gtx for my new 2600k build aren't you?

I only have one concern, if for example you have SLI "issues" with a new game (e.g. Witcher 2) and have to disable one of the cores to get it to render correctly (I understand that you can do this, I've never tried in a SLI setup) how fast is the down-clocked 580 core on it's own, faster than a 570gtx?

EDIT: Just to make it clear the above is for a single 590 gtx... I'm not made of money Quote

can i have these cards.....

god they are good, will trade my gf for themQuote

6990 is good card, just need a quieter fan for it, dunno they may come out. but i love the 590 i will still take it over a 6990Quote

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About FRAPS, TTL have you tried the On-Screen Display that comes with MSI Afterburner?

You can adjust the zoom of the stats to huuuooge levels...

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Can the 6990 and 590 setups handle 5760x1200 ?Quote

yes they can TTL used 1080 because thats what the monitors were maxedQuote

We was on about gpu drivers on another forum a few weeks back and during the last 12 months(at that time) ati had gained about 10% more fps while nvidia had jumped to near double in most of the popular game titles.

Ati seem to spend their time fixing micro stutter and flashing issues while nvidias driver team are constantly trying to unlock more fps.

If I was spending the kind of money these go for I would want them to be giving me the best drivers for them too and with these things in mind I think my choice is clear.Quote

How much ?

For f**** sake

/afk to drool... also, need to ask the missus summit.

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They scale way better than I would have thought, Would love to see the PPD of these cards in SLI.

Might sell my car and get 2 of these =] hahahQuote

correct me if im wrong,,, but you did do a 6990 cross-fire review did you not??? any reason for not including those stats in with this review???

bitch'n review otherwise......great topic for the watercooler mondayQuote

Hey bud,

Can you run the 580 SLI scores with the 275.33 WHQL Drivers you are using for the 590's in this review?

I see you got your scores from your original 580 SLI review which are using 8 month old release drivers. This would give a better comparison of 580 SLI vs a single 590.

And, do you have 6990 CF review by any chance?

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powercolor hd6990 crossfire review: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/powercolor_hd6990_crossfire_review/1

the same games were not tested in all the benchmarks. there are benches for the 6990CF, but not in a multi-monitor (eyefinity) setup, to compare to the 590SLI(surround)

the 6690eyefinity benches are in the graphs in this review, but are NOT crossfire+eyefinityQuote

why no overclocking didn't zotac let you do it ? afraid it is going to explode ? lolQuote

Were there any resolving suggestions to what TTL was talking about at the end of the main review for the 590's, About how you have a single stretched desktop instead of 3 separate monitors? Because i am doing a 590 setup and that would be a buzz kill if i can not get 3 separate monitors when not in gaming i might have to go to a crappy 6990 setup... >.> and then i would have to WC them which i did not want to have to figure in to my costs.. :/ any info would be great,. Quote

Only 3 or so of the 100 test cards sent out exploded due to drivers, Thats a common miss conception. And because he did not overclock the 6990's.Quote

I just don't get the Metro 2033 test. It says that the single 590 got 117 FPS Average in 1920x1200, almost 3 times more than a 580. In most other tests of the 590's the fps in metro has been around 45-60. Has this something to do with drivers, cuz the boost is quite significant.Quote

I think thats on a single monitor. I THINK, i posted up above this a couple days ago asking whats up with the test results and why it looked like a single 590 beat out sli, But its on a single monitor for the 590 test and i think the rest are on 3 3 monitor surround. They should have been labeled better if they were in the same test graph. But it might be mentioned in the actual review part that i skim through and dont really read haha,Quote

I would be very interested to know about this one too, would be a clincher in my purchase as I am getting together a new rig at the mo and was planning on two PoV 590's, ati multi monitor drivers have always seemed more easy to modify but I cant believe this is something nvidia can't do automatically these days!

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