NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 590: Duking It Out For The Single Card King
by Ryan Smith on March 24, 2011 9:00 AM ESTMass Effect 2
Electronic Arts’ space-faring RPG is our Unreal Engine 3 game. While it doesn’t have a built in benchmark, it does let us force anti-aliasing through driver control panels, giving us a better idea of UE3’s performance at higher quality settings. Since we can’t use a recording/benchmark in ME2, we use FRAPS to record a short run.
Mass Effect 2 ends up being another game the GTX 590 handily beats the 6990 at. Unfortunately for NVIDIA this is another game that already gets high framerates to start with, so the difference is largely academic unless you turn on something else (e.g. SSAA) to take advantage of the performance afforded by such a high framerate.
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tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
So was the WU count close to exactly double the single chip score of 360?tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
When using both chips with two WU's, I mean.alent1234 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
i can buy an x-box and with the price of a lot of good older games a few years worth of gaming for thatMrBungle123 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Thats like someone watching NASCAR, seeing the price of a car and saying they could buy a honda civic and a decades worth of gas for the same money.alent1234 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
i got sick of buying the latest video card when they hit $399 years ago. around 60fps you really don't notice any difference in speed so getting 100fps or some other number doesn't do it for me anymoretipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
TBH, in the land of console ports, very few games (on a single monitor) justify a card above 200.Targon - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
That just goes to show that you play the wrong games then. The new top of the line games really can push the $400 cards fairly well at 1920x1080 and full details. With DirectX 11 support, these new games really push the limit. Then you have things like Eyefinity, driving 5860x1080, and you want more than a $200 card.cmdrdredd - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Not really...This card isn't a one off race car. It's a production part, limited maybe but you can buy it at retail. A stock car is not stock...Azethoth - Sunday, March 27, 2011 - link
What!? Next you are gonna claim wrastling isn't real.medi01 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Puzzled by the cryptic color scheme on the graphs?Could you stick to red + shades of red for AMD and green + shades of green for nVidia (ok, blue for not so relevant cards)?
Or at least color the labels of the cards accordingly?