GTX 590 reviews

[Andrea deluxe]

LOL

exploded at 1.2v

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...TX_590/26.html

[onethreehill]

Legitreviews
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1576/1/

Hothardware
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/NVIDI...F110s-One-PCB/

Techreport
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20629

[SKYMTL]

I just read the Guru3D and Hardware Canucks review and both reviews showed different results, the Guru3D showed the GTX 590 was in lead in most games while the Hardware Canucks showed the GTX 590 was slower than the 6990 in most games.

Differet strokes for different folks.

Honestly, it's next to impossible to equate one review with another.

[onethreehill]

Tomshardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...6990,2898.html

[labs23]

overclock3d
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/g...tx590_review/1

[keiths]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0,2898-17.html

Hahah, it's ridiculous how loud the Radeon 6990 is. Move to the four minute mark, start the 590 clip, then the 6990 clip

[SKYMTL]

LOL

exploded at 1.2v

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...TX_590/26.html

Where's the facepalm emoticon when you need it?

From all of the reviewer's guides I have read, every one of them indicates NOT to push voltage past 1.1V with the reference heatsink. There's overclocking and then there's something like that which shouldn't be done ON THE STOCK COOLER.

But to each their own I guess. But it's sad to see cards dying without OCP kicking in.

[DiGiTaL_MoNkEY]

Overclockers Australia
http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=948018

[cowie]

LOL

exploded at 1.2v

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...TX_590/26.html

No limit to 1.13-1.15v in the bios?or just a unlocked review card?
I find it odd the 4xx-5xx cards all were limited to these ranges but not the 590?

[BobyTT]

Bulgarian review

[onethreehill]

Computerbase
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/g...force-gtx-590/

[Micutzu]

It's not about the cooling SKYMTL, the PWM is too weak, just as it is on the GTX 570. Two GTX 590 died the same way here, one in our test lab and one in a demo system of a reseller, both not overclocked or overvolted; Nvidia says some faulty components not found on retail parts caused it, but both us and TPU had retail package GTX 590's.

[ajaidev]

Its not a great card similar to the 6990 in performance and by that i mean some reviews will say 6990 is faster other will say the opposite. Now coming to the card it does not really deserve the fastest card award because its not always faster than the 6990 but given the GTX 580 costs around $480 and the 590 costs $700, i would consider it more value for money with respect to overclocking.

I for one would get a pair of 6950's if i had dual PCIE's or a GTX 590 if i had one PCIE "Who uses 1 now a days"

[emertX]

Conclusion of all reviews...fail!

[Pillo-kun]

I liked sweclockers.com review the most, even had a video when the 590 got smoked... anandtechs is also ok but to many graphs, why not have avg and min frames/sec in the same graph?

[Mad Pistol]

It's an innovative card. If I had to guess, AMD may go for a "6990 rev. 2" with a quieter cooler. What Nvidia has done in respect to acoustics is great. That being said, the general consensus is that that the 6990 is faster. On the games where Nvidia has put tons of optimization into it, it's obvious as Nvidia's 590 beats the 6990 by a healthy margin. However, when the games are on designed indifferently or in favor of AMD's solutions, The HD 6990 wipes out the GTX 590 by 20-25%, in some cases the 6990's minimum is actually higher than the GTX 590's average. At higher resolutions, it looks like AMD did the right thing by incorporating 2GB of frame buffer per GPU.

If AMD could simply get the fan noise under control, AMD would have the clear winner. As it stands, HD 6990 is the fastest card in the world, while the GTX 590 is quieter and has the better feature set.

The End.

[Shadov]

From what I can see the higher you go with resolution and AA, the more Radeon 6990 outperforms GTX590.

Though honestly why buys such cards to play below Full HD and AAx4 & AAx8?



That way I guess Radeon remains as the king of the hill closely followed by GTX590? Some people may choose one or the other based only on brand preference.

[Little_Beasts]

Can we keep a running total on the 6990 vs 590? Its quite interesting as it seems to swing one way then the other. TPU blowing up was quite funny! Woul dbe interested to see reviewers usinf the 11.4 drivers if only for this supposed civV improvement.

590 (2):
Bit-tech
Guru3d

Draw (4):
Toms
Hardwarecanucks (undecided on this one)
xbit
chiphell

6990 (2):
Hexus
TPU

[cowie]

From what I can see the higher you go with resolution and AA, the more Radeon 6990 outperforms GTX590.

Though honestly why buys such cards to play below Full HD and AAx4 & AAx8?



That way I guess Radeon remains as the king of the hill closely followed by GTX590? Some people may choose one or the other based only on brand preference.

on launch day drivers this card did very well IMHO

In the tpu review it was a tie @ 1920 x1280 3% off the 6990 at 2050x1220.
amd cant fix how loud the card is but nv can work on the drivers.

the 590 blowing on vid pillo-kun mentioned not too much drama but its worth a see
http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/137...boven-i-dramat

the guys text says its the drivers?
High-performance graphics card Geforce GTX 590 balances on the verge of what is practically possible to handle in terms of power consumption and heat development. Even worse is the situation when overclocking.
In order not to risk the components damaged are blocks built in drivers to say from when limit values are exceeded. SweClockers testers Jonas Eriksson tells what happened when the graphics card you take 12 000 SEK went up in smoke.
The first graphics card gave up the spirit when I user overclockable with the increase of the voltage to the GPU. I was thinking not so much more on it, after all things that can happen and there are always Monday specimens, in particular as regards the early "samples".
Shortly afterwards snappade Andreas up more suffered the same misfortune and we decided to explore it all together with Nvidia.
An additional video card had to be sacrificed in order to come to the conclusion that it is driver 267.52, which is the culprit. The experiment was repeated with newer 267.71 and then worked Nvidias safeguards that they would.The essence of it all is to install the latest software from Nvidias website and at all costs avoid the driver that is included in the box, which is precisely the wrong version 267.52. The who plan to overclock should also make sure that you have good ventilation in the chassis and be aware that your warranty is if frequencies are increased over specifications.

[RacingTurtle]

on launch day drivers this card did very well IMHO

In the tpu review it was a tie @ 1920 x1280 3% off the 6990 at 2050x1220.
amd cant fix how loud the card is but nv can work on the drivers.

Goes both ways I guess. AMD have a history of improving performance with new drivers, so the 6990 will get faster, but stay just as loud.

[tnc99]

Any test with 11.4 R2?

[SKYMTL]

It's not about the cooling SKYMTL, the PWM is too weak, just as it is on the GTX 570. Two GTX 590 died the same way here, one in our test lab and one in a demo system of a reseller, both not overclocked or overvolted; Nvidia says some faulty components not found on retail parts caused it, but both us and TPU had retail package GTX 590's.

Funny, I have talked to several reviewers about this and out of the ~13 cards we all have, none has died in situations where the default voltage was adhered to...

Methinks something is going on there in Europe.

[SKYMTL]

Goes both ways I guess. AMD have a history of improving performance with new drivers.

They do? That's news to me. Usually they are fixing items broken in the last release.

[Gaul]

Any test with 11.4 R2?

done, not much inc on game or bench

[Mad Pistol]

They do? That's news to me. Usually they are fixing items broken in the last release.

When I got my 5870, I was able to run Dirt 2 w/ 4xAA and all settings maxed at 1920x1200. I got an average of 50-55 FPS. Now, from the Cat 10.6 on, I can run Dirt 2 w/ 8xAA, all settings maxed, at 1920x1200, and have Vsync enabled because the framerate is pegged at 60 FPS the entire time.

AMD did something pretty fantastic with their drivers I think.