So behind me guys, you see everything I will be needing for my heavyweight GPU
battle. That is my P67 with a Core i7
2600 K overclocked to 4.7 GHz, my 8 gigs
of Mushkin Redline RAM. I've got my 120
gig Intel SATA 3 510 series SSD, and I
have a 30in monitor supporting a
resolution of 2560 by600. So, this is
the highest single monitor res that you will typically find in a PC scenario,
although it's fairly atypical. Most people do not have 30-in monitors.
However, the kinds of people who are buying these $700 graphics cards often
have 30-in monitors. So, that's why this is fairly relevant. Now, the reason that
these video cards re the reason that a lot of people who
own these video cards have 30-in monitors is that they're very well made
for each other. These video cards don't really stretch their wings until you
give them a 30-in monitor to play in. Um, otherwise, they don't really
separate themselves from the rest of the pack. And a 30-in monitor is not really
able to perform properly without a powerful graphics card driving it,
especially if you want to play the latest 3D games. So, for this
heavyweight showdown, I will be taking the 6T90 and the GTX 590, and they will
be battling it out like this.
Ah, don't bite my
leg. No, but really, I'll be doing benchmarks.
So, as you guys can clearly see from the charts and graphs segment of the
video, this isn't really a clear-cut decision. So, the GTX 590 and the 6T990
actually trade blows depending on which title you are most interested in
running. Um, this holds true at 1920 x
1080 as well as at 2560 x600. So, it
seems to be just generally how these cards perform with respect to each
other. So, I mean, the best thing to do would be to find reviews and find out if
either card has a clear advantage in the games that you do prefer to play and you
can make a decision based on that. But there are also some other factors. So
each AMD and NVIDIA have some advantages
that are unique to their cards that are different from each other. So both of
them have similar um similar cooling solutions in the sense that they both
use a central fan that exhausts the majority of the heat into your case. So
that's something that you may or may not want to factor in. Uh the AMD one
probably exhausts a little bit more out of the case because the NVIDIA card has
this DVI port right here. Okay, so that's something that probably
won't weigh in. Um, the next thing that I would probably consider is power
consumption. So, the power consumption of the AMD card is significantly higher.
Um, especially under load. Um, at idle,
the GTX 590 is a substantially uh lower
power consumption card. Another thing to factor in is definitely noise. The 6T90
is a significantly louder card. Um, if
you check out my video, I actually have one that is either uploaded now or will
be uploaded soon, depending when you're watching this, uh, where I compare the
acoustics of the GTX 590 with the
acoustics of the 6T90 and I also look at the temperatures that they run at. Um,
you can factor in price. Price is definitely something, although they
should be priced fairly similar, at least at launch. Similarly, excuse me.
Um, and then the other thing would be unique features. So, unique features of
these two GPU makers um are would be
iffinity is the big one on the AMD side. So, the 6990 actually supports up to
five displays. So, I've got a video up on my NCIXCOM channel where I actually
run five displays in portrait mode um
for five times HD resolution and uh run
some games on that. It looks pretty cool. It's a very neat gaming
experience. And then on the NVIDIA side, we've got 3D vision. So 3D vision is uh
well stereoscopic 3D with an NVIDIA ecosystem. So you just have to have a 3D
vision supporting display. There are projectors, there are monitors out
there. You have to have the 3D vision glasses and then you have to have a
GeForce graphics card. So they got 3D vision. They've also got PhysX. So
there's a number of games that support FizzX effects. And last but not least,
they've got CUDA. So CUDA will allow you to use your GPU to offload some compute
uh style um calculations to your GPU. Now
direct compute is supported on AMD cards and some uh some applications do take
advantage of that as well. So thank you for checking out my video on the you
know battle of the heavyweight Titan
graphics cards and uh hopefully you'll
excuse me for my mistakes while filming this. After all, it is not very
um it is not a normal time of day and
I'm very tired and I would really like to go to sleep. So, good night
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