1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:10,000 So behind me guys, you see everything I will be needing for my heavyweight GPU 2 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:13,280 battle. That is my P67 with a Core i7 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,800 2600 K overclocked to 4.7 GHz, my 8 gigs 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:20,680 of Mushkin Redline RAM. I've got my 120 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:23,920 gig Intel SATA 3 510 series SSD, and I 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:27,439 have a 30in monitor supporting a 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:29,840 resolution of 2560 by600. So, this is 8 00:00:27,439 --> 00:00:34,800 the highest single monitor res that you will typically find in a PC scenario, 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:38,800 although it's fairly atypical. Most people do not have 30-in monitors. 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:43,680 However, the kinds of people who are buying these $700 graphics cards often 11 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:48,680 have 30-in monitors. So, that's why this is fairly relevant. Now, the reason that 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:52,640 these video cards re the reason that a lot of people who 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,160 own these video cards have 30-in monitors is that they're very well made 14 00:00:54,239 --> 00:01:00,000 for each other. These video cards don't really stretch their wings until you 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:03,039 give them a 30-in monitor to play in. Um, otherwise, they don't really 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:07,840 separate themselves from the rest of the pack. And a 30-in monitor is not really 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,720 able to perform properly without a powerful graphics card driving it, 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:15,600 especially if you want to play the latest 3D games. So, for this 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:24,520 heavyweight showdown, I will be taking the 6T90 and the GTX 590, and they will 20 00:01:20,479 --> 00:01:24,520 be battling it out like this. 21 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,040 Ah, don't bite my 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,200 leg. No, but really, I'll be doing benchmarks. 23 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:16,720 So, as you guys can clearly see from the charts and graphs segment of the 24 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:25,520 video, this isn't really a clear-cut decision. So, the GTX 590 and the 6T990 25 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:32,800 actually trade blows depending on which title you are most interested in 26 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:36,239 running. Um, this holds true at 1920 x 27 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,560 1080 as well as at 2560 x600. So, it 28 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:42,720 seems to be just generally how these cards perform with respect to each 29 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:47,120 other. So, I mean, the best thing to do would be to find reviews and find out if 30 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:51,280 either card has a clear advantage in the games that you do prefer to play and you 31 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:56,400 can make a decision based on that. But there are also some other factors. So 32 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,319 each AMD and NVIDIA have some advantages 33 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:03,360 that are unique to their cards that are different from each other. So both of 34 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:09,040 them have similar um similar cooling solutions in the sense that they both 35 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:14,239 use a central fan that exhausts the majority of the heat into your case. So 36 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:18,159 that's something that you may or may not want to factor in. Uh the AMD one 37 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:22,800 probably exhausts a little bit more out of the case because the NVIDIA card has 38 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,400 this DVI port right here. Okay, so that's something that probably 39 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:30,400 won't weigh in. Um, the next thing that I would probably consider is power 40 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:37,519 consumption. So, the power consumption of the AMD card is significantly higher. 41 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:41,599 Um, especially under load. Um, at idle, 42 00:03:37,519 --> 00:03:43,840 the GTX 590 is a substantially uh lower 43 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:50,159 power consumption card. Another thing to factor in is definitely noise. The 6T90 44 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:52,239 is a significantly louder card. Um, if 45 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:55,840 you check out my video, I actually have one that is either uploaded now or will 46 00:03:54,239 --> 00:04:01,280 be uploaded soon, depending when you're watching this, uh, where I compare the 47 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,760 acoustics of the GTX 590 with the 48 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:08,720 acoustics of the 6T90 and I also look at the temperatures that they run at. Um, 49 00:04:06,799 --> 00:04:11,599 you can factor in price. Price is definitely something, although they 50 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:16,000 should be priced fairly similar, at least at launch. Similarly, excuse me. 51 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:21,280 Um, and then the other thing would be unique features. So, unique features of 52 00:04:18,239 --> 00:04:23,440 these two GPU makers um are would be 53 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:29,040 iffinity is the big one on the AMD side. So, the 6990 actually supports up to 54 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:35,120 five displays. So, I've got a video up on my NCIXCOM channel where I actually 55 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:39,280 run five displays in portrait mode um 56 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:41,280 for five times HD resolution and uh run 57 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:45,520 some games on that. It looks pretty cool. It's a very neat gaming 58 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:52,040 experience. And then on the NVIDIA side, we've got 3D vision. So 3D vision is uh 59 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:56,240 well stereoscopic 3D with an NVIDIA ecosystem. So you just have to have a 3D 60 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,919 vision supporting display. There are projectors, there are monitors out 61 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:03,040 there. You have to have the 3D vision glasses and then you have to have a 62 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:06,240 GeForce graphics card. So they got 3D vision. They've also got PhysX. So 63 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:11,520 there's a number of games that support FizzX effects. And last but not least, 64 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:15,800 they've got CUDA. So CUDA will allow you to use your GPU to offload some compute 65 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:20,960 uh style um calculations to your GPU. Now 66 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:26,160 direct compute is supported on AMD cards and some uh some applications do take 67 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:32,080 advantage of that as well. So thank you for checking out my video on the you 68 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:35,600 know battle of the heavyweight Titan 69 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:38,560 graphics cards and uh hopefully you'll 70 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:47,759 excuse me for my mistakes while filming this. After all, it is not very 71 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,919 um it is not a normal time of day and 72 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:55,039 I'm very tired and I would really like to go to sleep. So, good night 73 00:05:53,000 --> 00:06:00,800 everyone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, 74 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,800 reviews, and other computer 75 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:06,759 videos. If I can find the button, that'd be good.