NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Review Part 3/3 2560x1600 Gaming Performance Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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So behind me guys, you see everything I will be needing for my heavyweight GPU
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battle. That is my P67 with a Core i7
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2600 K overclocked to 4.7 GHz, my 8 gigs
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of Mushkin Redline RAM. I've got my 120
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gig Intel SATA 3 510 series SSD, and I
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have a 30in monitor supporting a
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resolution of 2560 by600. So, this is
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the highest single monitor res that you will typically find in a PC scenario,
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although it's fairly atypical. Most people do not have 30-in monitors.
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However, the kinds of people who are buying these $700 graphics cards often
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have 30-in monitors. So, that's why this is fairly relevant. Now, the reason that
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these video cards re the reason that a lot of people who
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own these video cards have 30-in monitors is that they're very well made
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for each other. These video cards don't really stretch their wings until you
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give them a 30-in monitor to play in. Um, otherwise, they don't really
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separate themselves from the rest of the pack. And a 30-in monitor is not really
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able to perform properly without a powerful graphics card driving it,
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especially if you want to play the latest 3D games. So, for this
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heavyweight showdown, I will be taking the 6T90 and the GTX 590, and they will
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be battling it out like this.
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Ah, don't bite my
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leg. No, but really, I'll be doing benchmarks.
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So, as you guys can clearly see from the charts and graphs segment of the
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video, this isn't really a clear-cut decision. So, the GTX 590 and the 6T990
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actually trade blows depending on which title you are most interested in
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running. Um, this holds true at 1920 x
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1080 as well as at 2560 x600. So, it
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seems to be just generally how these cards perform with respect to each
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other. So, I mean, the best thing to do would be to find reviews and find out if
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either card has a clear advantage in the games that you do prefer to play and you
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can make a decision based on that. But there are also some other factors. So
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each AMD and NVIDIA have some advantages
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that are unique to their cards that are different from each other. So both of
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them have similar um similar cooling solutions in the sense that they both
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use a central fan that exhausts the majority of the heat into your case. So
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that's something that you may or may not want to factor in. Uh the AMD one
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probably exhausts a little bit more out of the case because the NVIDIA card has
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this DVI port right here. Okay, so that's something that probably
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won't weigh in. Um, the next thing that I would probably consider is power
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consumption. So, the power consumption of the AMD card is significantly higher.
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Um, especially under load. Um, at idle,
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the GTX 590 is a substantially uh lower
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power consumption card. Another thing to factor in is definitely noise. The 6T90
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is a significantly louder card. Um, if
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you check out my video, I actually have one that is either uploaded now or will
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be uploaded soon, depending when you're watching this, uh, where I compare the
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acoustics of the GTX 590 with the
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acoustics of the 6T90 and I also look at the temperatures that they run at. Um,
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you can factor in price. Price is definitely something, although they
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should be priced fairly similar, at least at launch. Similarly, excuse me.
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Um, and then the other thing would be unique features. So, unique features of
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these two GPU makers um are would be
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iffinity is the big one on the AMD side. So, the 6990 actually supports up to
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five displays. So, I've got a video up on my NCIXCOM channel where I actually
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run five displays in portrait mode um
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for five times HD resolution and uh run
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some games on that. It looks pretty cool. It's a very neat gaming
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experience. And then on the NVIDIA side, we've got 3D vision. So 3D vision is uh
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well stereoscopic 3D with an NVIDIA ecosystem. So you just have to have a 3D
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vision supporting display. There are projectors, there are monitors out
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there. You have to have the 3D vision glasses and then you have to have a
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GeForce graphics card. So they got 3D vision. They've also got PhysX. So
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there's a number of games that support FizzX effects. And last but not least,
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they've got CUDA. So CUDA will allow you to use your GPU to offload some compute
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uh style um calculations to your GPU. Now
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direct compute is supported on AMD cards and some uh some applications do take
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advantage of that as well. So thank you for checking out my video on the you
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know battle of the heavyweight Titan
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graphics cards and uh hopefully you'll
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excuse me for my mistakes while filming this. After all, it is not very
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um it is not a normal time of day and
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I'm very tired and I would really like to go to sleep. So, good night
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everyone. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings,
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