March 24th, 2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Gemini Review @ BenchmarkReviews
Poised to compete against AMD’s Radeon HD 6990, NVIDIA launches their own dual-Fermi GF110-based GeForce GTX 590 video card.
March madness indeed. Just last week AMD made news with their dual-Cayman GPU Radeon HD 6990 video card, and days later NVIDIA is returning with their own competitor. Designed around their flagship GeForce GTX 580 video card, they’ve combined two titanic graphics processors into a package roughly the same size, and still manage to produce the quietest dual-GPU video card ever made. With 512 CUDA cores each, two independent NVIDIA GF110 GPUs join to deliver 1024 total cores of graphical processing power. There are six 64-bit memory controllers that offer 384-bit combined bandwidth per GPU, and feed 3GB of combined GDDR5 video frame buffer. All of this is said to deliver comparable performance to the Radeon HD 6990, which is good for gamers, but it does so while running cooler and emitting less noise.
When it comes to computer hardware there’s something for everyone, and this rings especially true for graphics cards. If you’re on a tight budget but still like to point and shoot your way through levels, there are plenty of affordable entry-level products that can satisfy your needs. But if you’re an enthusiast gamer who demands only the highest level of performance that far surpasses mainstream standards, the graphics industry continues to cherish your business. Fierce competition between NVIDIA and AMD have allowed PC gamers to enjoy the best graphics hardware ever developed for desktop computers. NVIDIA has worked hard to earn their reputation as the industry leader in desktop graphics, and the codename ‘Gemini’ graphics card is proof to their dedication. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the GeForce GTX 590 against the AMD Radeon HD 6990 and an entire market of top-end desktop graphics solutions.
