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Although its release date remains under wraps, some of the GTX 590's specifications have slipped out. According to a leak in January, the card will pack two GF110 graphics processor with a total of 1024 CUDA cores as well as 3027MB of GDDR5 memory, dual 384-bit memory buses, 128 texture units, 96 ROPs. The GTX 590 essentially doubles the hardware of Nvidia's current single-GF110 flagship, the GTX 580, except it will likely have lower clocks.
In other Nvidia news, the company has announced plans to host a special booth for PC gamers at PAX East 2011. The event kicks off on March 11 at Exhibit Hall A, Booth #524 and will let attendees experience today's "hottest" games (including some unreleased titles) in 3D and Nvidia 3D Vision Surround. Nvidia also plans to give away $20,000 worth of prizes along with showcasing various gaming PCs and upcoming Tegra handsets and tablets.
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Like many PC gamers I too am disappointed with what I've seen so far from Crysis 2. While graphically I could forgive them for the changes, the gameplay just feels too much like a standard CoD wannabe and likely not worth a first day buy. To me they seem to be either trying to pander to CoD fans or take them on directly which I find strange considering they already had a good design that differentiated them on the market. I guess we'll see in the coming months from sales if this change really helped or hurt them.
Regarding the GTX 590, it'll be neat to see its overall performance and price in a couple of weeks.
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Regarding the GTX 590, it'll be neat to see its overall performance and price in a couple of weeks.
Nvidia have enough lead time to tweak clocks and set the BIOS to beat the HD6990 if they choose to. My guess is that is what they will do. Underclock the stock card to keep within the 375w power envelope and make the card "overclock friendly". I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see a multi-fan reference card or Day-1 vendor non-reference boards such as the DirectCu II, Windforce, Calibre, GLH etc. Unlike AMD who seem to retain a reference only card for the first few months following release, Nvidia seem quite content to let AIB's release their own custom designs and BIOS.
So...My special $0.02 prediction; More expensive, slower at stock but slightly faster at max overclock thanks to software power profiling, more power hungry but quieter and cooler.
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