March 2011 was certainly an interesting month for the high-end graphics card aficionados. First, AMD released the Radeon HD 6990 and merely two weeks later NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 590. Both products each with pros and cons, but overall extremely fast products offering you a lot of performance, at a price of course.

With the current state of games being mostly console ports and testing in monitor resolutions of say 1920×1080, as you have been able to see, especially with the somewhat dated titles it’s really hard for these dual-GPU monsters to show off their true capacity. This is mostly due to 3D graphics engine requirements, some CPU limitation and the fact that these graphics cards can calculate much faster than the game requires.

There’s an exception to that rule, both AMD and NVIDIA have game support for triple monitor gaming. AMD has Eyefinity and NVIDIA calls this feature NVIDIA Surround Vision. Whereas AMD’s implementation is supported on many ‘single’ cards ever since the 5000 series, NVIDIA requires you to go SLI with the series 500 cards in order to get that feature activated. The GTX 590 however runs SLI internally and as such it’s NVIDIA’s first standalone card that supports three monitors straight out of the box.

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