NVIDIA GTX 595 (picture+Details)

[mele]

Yes, we get it.

The excuses and spins are already starting, even before the card is officialy out and none really knows about it's real performance, temperatures and noise levels.

In regards of overclocking, while I can see that the potential is there with so much downclocked cores, I would be worried about cooling them with a non-stock cooling solution, be it air, water or ln2, due to the close proximity of power supply plugs and the second GPU core.

Yeah, the AMD/ATI fanboys are having a fit aren't they. I find it funny.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Hmm, I didn't know Nvidia's CFO resigned. And a few days before the 590 release.

[Olivon]

Hmm, I didn't know Nvidia's CFO resigned. And a few days before the 590 release.

I made a newz on it but not a really great success

[Levesque]

honestly... you know what...
like i said before, i think having a polished off product that is quiet, cool, looks nice is more important than speed...
so what, a is 10% faster than b... but its noisier, runs hot, has worse support in games, looks worse...
get what i mean?

Same old, same old... I'm running a 6990+6970 in Tri-Fire with 11.4 preview BETA drivers and everything is fine for me.

Played 4 hours of Dragon Age II yesterday, everything maxed out with PC high-texture pack, Metro 2033, Crysis, Stalker COP, every settings maxed-out with 4AA/8AA. Played all night long. Slept only 3 hours. Smooth fps all along.

Not a single bug/freeze/crash/BSOD all night! And with BETA drivers!

Mobo didn't melt, the noise was not bad, didn't wake my wife or my children, even my neighbor was snoring more loudly then my cards! And my room was not warmer after all those hours playing...

AMD cleaned the house recently, and 11.4 is a good signs of what's coming for them in the next months

I know I know. ''Yes, but I had a 3xxx serie ATI cards 8 years ago and it was a POS AMD drivers are so much FAIL''... blah blah blah.

It's not true anymore.

[Callsign_Vega]

Same old, same old... I'm running a 6990+6970 in Tri-Fire with 11.4 preview BETA drivers and everything is fine for me.

Played 4 hours of Dragon Age II yesterday, everything maxed out with PC high-texture pack, Metro 2033, Crysis, Stalker COP, every settings maxed-out with 4AA/8AA. Played all night long. Slept only 3 hours. Smooth fps all along.

Not a single bug/freeze/crash/BSOD all night! And with BETA drivers!

Mobo didn't melt, the noise was not bad, didn't wake my wife or my children, even my neighbor was snoring more loudly then my cards! And my room was not warmer after all those hours playing...

AMD cleaned the house recently, and 11.4 is a good signs of what's coming for them in the next months

I know I know. ''Yes, but I had a 3xxx serie ATI cards 8 years ago and it was a POS AMD drivers are so much FAIL''... blah blah blah.

It's not true anymore.

Levesque, why do you keep copy and pasting this same post all over the net? This is like the third forum you've spam'd this on. No one cares that you played Dragon Age II yesterday on your 6990.

[highoctane]

Hmm, I didn't know Nvidia's CFO resigned. And a few days before the 590 release.

It says he's stepped down for personal reasons and will be working until May 31, so what does that have to do with the 590's release exactly?

[Postmodum]

Yeah, OCN, XS, HARDCOP ... and he keeps pasting the posts ... And he calls fanboys to others ... jeez ... take a second to look at the mirror mate ...

As for Nvidia CFO ... the same with the AMD CFO ... it's some kind of a state of mind with CFO's :P

[highoctane]

Levesque, why do you keep copy and pasting this same post all over the net? This is like the third forum you've spam'd this on. No one cares that you played Dragon Age II yesterday on your 6990.

It's like a broken record isn't it, too bad kill filter only works when you're logged in eh.

I think he needs his own blog site or twitter...

[Levesque]

Levesque, why do you keep copy and pasting this same post all over the net? This is like the third forum you've spam'd this on. No one cares that you played Dragon Age II yesterday on your 6990.

True. But when people say that AMD drivers are FAIL, when Nvidia cards are having problems with Dragon Age II right now, then it's totally relevant.

So, a really recent/popular game is running better with beta AMD drivers then official Nvidia drivers. That's all. So much ''fail'', huh?

Not important for you, but for others, it is. And the ''AMD drivers are FAIL'' is getting long in the tooth. Same old, same old...

Don't start in here. You could have some posts deleted. Be careful.

Highoctane and Postmodum. Shoot the message, not the messanger. Personnal attacks. Same old, same old.

[Olivon]

True. But when people say that AMD drivers are FAIL, when Nvidia cards are having problems with Dragon Age II right now, then it's totally relevant.

So that really recent game is running better with beta AMD drivers then official Nvidia drivers. That's all. Not important for you, but for others, it is. And the ''AMD drivers are FAIL'' is getting long in the tooth. Same old, same old...

Don't start in here. You could have some posts deleted. Be careful.

Guess what ? It's an AMD official game and AMD used the games for the HD6990 teasing. Fortunately, it works great on AMD

[Postmodum]

?!?! ohhhh man ... this so beyond my comprehension ...

Levesque, the fact ... and it's a fact, is that Radeon drivers have been kind of ... bad ... I have a 5850 and when installed the 11.2 everything went bad! I had to do a fresh install in order to make the damn thing work ...

So, i know that for the 6990 release, they had a team "refresh" in order to make these 11.4 a worthy release and i think they made it ... but, either way ... the present is drawn by past actions ... so no one can really forget how bad the drivers were.

I have AMD & Nvidia cards and i've been using both company's drivers for a long time ... and i can say that Nvidia drivers always were much more stable ...

But hey ... i'm a fanboy ... one of those fanboys that want the best performance / best product ... either it's green or red colored

[highoctane]

Highoctane and Postmodum. Shoot the message, not the messanger.

OK, how about posting on topic, your message has nothing to do with 590, you're only instigating/trolling at this point.

[Callsign_Vega]

True. But when people say that AMD drivers are FAIL, when Nvidia cards are having problems with Dragon Age II right now, then it's totally relevant.

So, a really recent/popular game is running better with beta AMD drivers then official Nvidia drivers. That's all.

Not important for you, but for others, it is. And the ''AMD drivers are FAIL'' is getting long in the tooth. Same old, same old...

Don't start in here. You could have some posts deleted. Be careful.

And Highoctane. Shoot the message, not the messanger.

Oh you mean the post where some guy asked for wattage usage numbers of Quad-XFire 6990 and I simply posted videos showing wattage usage of Quad-Xfire 6990? Man, that was some huge flaming.

I can't help it if the videos also contained 3x 580s "massacring" as you like to put it, 2x 6990s in Quad-SLI.

Oh by the way, I talked to the mod about why my post got deleted. He said it was to get you guys to stop pestering him about "ruining" your 6990 "club thread".

[Levesque]

Levesque, the fact ... and it's a fact, is that Radeon drivers have been kind of ... bad ... I have a 5850 and when installed the 11.2 everything went bad! I had to do a fresh install in order to make the damn thing work ...

Ok. Because YOU had a problem with 1 card, 1 install, automatically all the cards from tha tmanufactuer on the planet are like that, and everyone on the planet is having the same problem? So it's a ''FACT'' because of 1 installation that went bad?

Are you Bill Gates on a pseudo or something? Sorry Mister President.

The planet is not turning around your keyboard and your belly-button.

For 1 really vocal whiner on the net, you have 1000 satisfied users who don't post. AMD drivers are fine. Learn to install. PEBKAC.

[bamtan2]

AMD cleaned the house recently, and 11.4 is a good signs of what's coming for them in the next months

people have been saying things like this for years. oh yeah, ati drivers are good now. just use the beta drivers. right. the deja vu I get from your post makes me feel like hurling

[Postmodum]

LoL you like that quote huh ? You've posted everywhere " Shoot the message not the messenger " ... oh well

But, talking about the GTX590 i'm feeling that at this point, this damn card is a so well kept secret that everyone gets pissed for not knowing s**t about it! ehehhee
I remember that HARDOCP had the 6990 a week before it was launched ... and they teased it ...

This is not happening with the 590 ...
So, maybe reviewers don't have access to it yet ... or the damn NDA is so tight that they can't even sneeze "we have a GTX590 in house " ... ehehhe

P.S. Sure... i'm the only guy saying that Radeon drivers haven't been good ... wake up to reality ...
P.S.2. Please, don't make this thread all about 6990, you have a specific thread for that you know ...

[Levesque]

OK, how about posting on topic, your message has nothing to do with 590, you're only instigating/trolling at this point.

Someone posted that AMD drivers are FAIL. I was following the topic. Do you?

[Levesque]

Ok ok. I'm the only one on the planet, on the 20-30 millions of card AMD sold, that is not having problems with the drivers.

It's a FACT, since Postmodum had problem when trying to install drivers once. So I should go in a cave and stop posting, since it's a FACT.

Sigh.

[Roadhog]

Mine work fine.

[highoctane]

Someone posted that AMD drivers are FAIL. I was following the topic. Do you?

Nvidia GTX59x is what I'm trying to follow, info relative to the thread topic.

Why don't you start your own thread in wamps where you can continue your rants.

[Lanek]

I don't want enter this driver troll war, but for be honest and fair, i have build 3 PC for 2 friends and my brother ( twin ), i get 3 phones / week for solve the problem they get in one games or another or video playback ( ofttly just cause they are dumb to search too for be fair ).. I have choose for them the 460 1go for the price perf / resolution they was aim at and as they was Nvidia user for don't let them lost and in the unknow of a new control panel, thinking like this i will be quiet... nice error from me ( it's the last time i do this for friends ). And no, driver from AMD are not perfect, but Nvidia drivers aren't too..

About DA2, i don't know if it's a backfire from AMD to the Hawx2 and LP2 situation ( maybe who know, they are in right to do it. ), but it's clear Nvidia got serious problem for make run the game with DX11 settings...
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/review...gon-age-2.html

GTX 580 = 24fps
GTX580 SLI = 53fps

HD6990 = 117fps

[Levesque]

Nvidia GTX59x is what I'm trying to follow, info relative to the thread topic.

Since Nvidia designed the 590 only because AMD first talked about the 6990, and because the 5970 was faster (and still is) then the 580, it's totally relevant to talk about the direct competition of the product on topic.

The 590 exist only because the 6990 exist.

[highoctane]

Since Nvidia designed the 590 only because AMD first talked about the 6990, and because the 5970 was faster (and still is) then the 580, it's totally relevant to talk about the direct competition of the product on topic.

The 590 exist only because the 6990 exist.

You're talking semantics now....

Dual gpu cards have been around for years now, lets not set time lines for the reason brand x or brand z have one today or who was first, second and third with the technology.

If you want multi-gpu performance you can build an SLI or crossfire system and not even care about a single card multi-gpu solution.

[cold2010]

Guess what ? It's an AMD official game and AMD used the games for the HD6990 teasing. Fortunately, it works great on AMD

Dragon Age II bug fix patch in the works

BioWare's epic fantasy romp Dragon Age II arrives today and there are bugs - "two biggies", lead designer Mike Laidlaw told Eurogamer.

His team is "aggressively patching" these and hopes to offer fixes "as soon as humanly possible".

"There's been a few minor [bugs] and a few technical hiccups on PC. The two biggies that I'm aware of - that we're looking at aggressively right now - are on PC there seems to be some compatibility issues with DirectX 11," said Laidlaw.

"What I would say there is if you fire up the game and and it's running particularly slow or stuttery, move the renderer in visual options down to DirectX 9 for now. We're working with NVIDIA/AMD to make sure patches are coming out, because some if it is actually in the driver compatibility. We'll make sure that's rectified and resolved

[Lanek]

Let's hope this will be sorted soon ..