NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 590: Duking It Out For The Single Card King
by Ryan Smith on March 24, 2011 9:00 AM ESTSTALKER: Call of Pripyat
The third game in the STALKER series continues to build on GSC Game World’s X-Ray Engine by adding DX11 support, tessellation, and more. This also makes it another one of the highly demanding games in our benchmark suite.
For every game that makes the GTX 590 glow like Civlizaiton V there is a game like STALKER that more than wipes out any kind of trend. The GeForce GTX lineup simply gets manhandled here, making the 6990 the easy victor. We’ve seen STALKER be both shader and memory bound in the past, and it’s likely that’s what’s happening here. This is the most conclusive proof yet that 1.5GB of RAM per GPU may come up a bit short for the GTX 590, in which case if NVIDIA ever does a 3GB GTX 590 performance here should improve. In the meantime even a hefty overclock can’t get the GTX 590 to within 10fps of the stock 6990.
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WhatsTheDifference - Monday, April 4, 2011 - link
how many years has it been since *any* 4890 has been represented in the charts..? why is it this way? come on. exclude nV's earlier gen top dog and maybe no one will notice.Scandalman - Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - link
Interesting article, however it would be useful to know what power supplies you recommend.I am interested in using a pair of these cards for running an OpenCL application flat out and I want to know if my Tagan 1100W supply is sufficient; It's running a GA890-GPA-UD3H/Phenom x4 955 with two unlocked 6950's at the moment.
Looks like it might just do it with a whisker to spare, but I'd like to avoid expensive pyrotechnics.
nyran125 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link
im not really into giving all my money to the same manufactorer every year just to buy a new video card that does nothing else accept increase FPS by 3-10 fps. Sometimes it doesnt increase it at all. If what you have already owns everything out there, i dont see the point. I only see the point if what you have DOESNT do what you want it to do. AMD 6870 is running every game iver played so far on max withotu issue at highest resolution. We are in the console era.Unless your playing Arma 2 and Shogun total war 2, but even then thats more CPU related adn an amd 6870 combined with a high end cpu prety much gets the job done at high res. NOT 30" though. Bu my eyes are screwed up enough from staring at a montier, than even want to go to 30 ".