NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 590: Duking It Out For The Single Card King
by Ryan Smith on March 24, 2011 9:00 AM ESTWolfenstein
Finally among our benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage later this year.
Wolfenstein ends up being another title the GTX 590 and 6990 are quite close at, largely because the game quickly becomes CPU Limited after a point. Still, the GTX 590 OC picks up almost 10%, and even the EVGA GTX 590 is good for around 2%.
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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?