Zotac GTX590 SLI 5760×1080 Nvidia Surround Review

Zotac GTX590 SLI 5760x1080 Review

Introduction

If you’re a regular reader, and if not why not, you’ll have been awaiting today’s review.

After dipping our metaphorical toe in the triple-screen water with the HIS HD6990, today we’re back with a nVidia offering in the form of the Zotac GTX590.

Of course we could just review a single card, but as Zotac kindly offered to lend us two so we could run in SLI we’ll be testing in both forms today.

Technical Specifications

Popping along to the Zotac website we find the specifications for the GTX590. Unlike the AMD solution the nVidia multi-screen setup is based off of 3x DVI connections rather than mini display ports.

Otherwise it’s a standard reference design card.

Model ZT-50501-10P
Cooler Type Fan (Dual Slot)
Core Clock 607 MHz
Core Processors 1024 (2 x 512) Stream Processors
Dimensions 4.376in x 11in – 111.15mm x 279.4mm
DirectX DirectX 11
Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes
DVI 3
GPU GeForce GTX 590
HDCP Ready Yes
HDMI 1 x Mini-HDMI 1.4
Interface PCI Express 2.0 x 16 (Compatible with 1.1)
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
Memory Clock 3414 MHz
Memory Size 3072MB (2 x 1536MB)
Memory Interface 768-bit (2 x 384-bit)
Memory Type GDDR5
Recommended Power Supply Wattage 700-Watt
Package Contents 1 x DVI-to-HDMI cable
1 x DVI-to-VGA adapter
2 x Dual 6-pin PCIe to 8-pin PCIe power adapter
1 x Assassin’s Creed®: Brotherhood game bundle
1 x Driver Disk
1 x ZOTAC Boost software bundle
1 x User manual
RAMDAC 400 MHz
SLI Supported Yes
Weight 5.3500 lb
Warranty 2-Year Standard Warranty; Limited Lifetime Extended Warranty

 

Time to have a look at the card and bundle.