NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Length & Physical Characteristics Comparison Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so this is my usual thing where I compare the lengths and physical
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characteristics of a bunch of graphics cards so our feature dour today is the
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GTX 590 from NVIDIA this is a dual gf10
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card it is so it's SLI on a card we've seen dual GPU cards quite a few times in
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the past now now these are fully featured GF 1110s these are exactly the
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same gpus that you find on a GTX 580 so
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one of these so you might ask well how did NVIDIA manage to put two of those on
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one card and the answer is that they are actually downclocked well first of all
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they're bined very carefully for the best possible graphics cards or the
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chips to put on it and then second they are actually downclocked so they do have
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less performance than a single GTX 580
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but they more than make up for it by having two of them okay so this card has
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an 80 mm fan in the middle it has heat sinks on either side for each of the
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gpus it has three DVI outputs with one
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mini DisplayPort so those three DVI outputs this is another unique thing
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about this card allow it to support 3D Vision surround or just plain surround
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off a single card that is three displays over DVI so that's pretty cool it does
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support quad SLI because it has one SLI
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finger and it needs two PCI E8 pin power
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connectors so let's just contrast it
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against these other cards in terms of length it is an 11in card so I'll just
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show you guys that there you go it's an 11in card so
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you compare that to the radon HD 6990
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which is a 1T that is a 12 in card and
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to the GTX 580 which is only a 10 1/2 in
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card now the 69
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oops I'm going to wreck my tablecloth here the 6970 is almost 11 in and then
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if we go all the way down into kind of the mainstream cards then we end up with
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a GTX 560 TI and that is a 9in card so
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just for contrast you can look at what it would take to fit a GTX 590 in your
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case versus a GTX 560 TI sort of
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mainstream single GPU card now there are other considerations to bear in mind as
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well this fan needs to have a fair amount of clearance around it because
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with two fmes in there there's a fair bit of heat being generated so you need
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to make sure it has adequate ventilation
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and yeah that's pretty much where I was going with that you got to make sure it
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has adequate ventilation you also need to make sure your case has overall
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adequate air flow in it because half of the heat is going to be exhausted
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directly into your case out this side and then a fairly substantial amount of
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it is going to come out into your case this way and then the rest will be
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exhausted so this is going to kick a fair amount of heat into your case and
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you got to make sure you have lots of fans to keep things cool thank you for
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checking out my video on the physical
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size and characteristics of the GTX 590 dual GPU graphics card from NVIDIA don't
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