so this is my usual thing where I compare the lengths and physical
characteristics of a bunch of graphics cards so our feature dour today is the
GTX 590 from NVIDIA this is a dual gf10
card it is so it's SLI on a card we've seen dual GPU cards quite a few times in
the past now now these are fully featured GF 1110s these are exactly the
same gpus that you find on a GTX 580 so
one of these so you might ask well how did NVIDIA manage to put two of those on
one card and the answer is that they are actually downclocked well first of all
they're bined very carefully for the best possible graphics cards or the
chips to put on it and then second they are actually downclocked so they do have
less performance than a single GTX 580
but they more than make up for it by having two of them okay so this card has
an 80 mm fan in the middle it has heat sinks on either side for each of the
gpus it has three DVI outputs with one
mini DisplayPort so those three DVI outputs this is another unique thing
about this card allow it to support 3D Vision surround or just plain surround
off a single card that is three displays over DVI so that's pretty cool it does
support quad SLI because it has one SLI
finger and it needs two PCI E8 pin power
connectors so let's just contrast it
against these other cards in terms of length it is an 11in card so I'll just
show you guys that there you go it's an 11in card so
you compare that to the radon HD 6990
which is a 1T that is a 12 in card and
to the GTX 580 which is only a 10 1/2 in
card now the 69
oops I'm going to wreck my tablecloth here the 6970 is almost 11 in and then
if we go all the way down into kind of the mainstream cards then we end up with
a GTX 560 TI and that is a 9in card so
just for contrast you can look at what it would take to fit a GTX 590 in your
case versus a GTX 560 TI sort of
mainstream single GPU card now there are other considerations to bear in mind as
well this fan needs to have a fair amount of clearance around it because
with two fmes in there there's a fair bit of heat being generated so you need
to make sure it has adequate ventilation
and yeah that's pretty much where I was going with that you got to make sure it
has adequate ventilation you also need to make sure your case has overall
adequate air flow in it because half of the heat is going to be exhausted
directly into your case out this side and then a fairly substantial amount of
it is going to come out into your case this way and then the rest will be
exhausted so this is going to kick a fair amount of heat into your case and
you got to make sure you have lots of fans to keep things cool thank you for
checking out my video on the physical
size and characteristics of the GTX 590 dual GPU graphics card from NVIDIA don't
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