Technical data / specifications

Regarding the GTX 590 NVIDIA uses two GF 110 GPUs which feature lowered clock speeds. With 159 MHz less on each GPU, compared to a standard GTX 580 single GPU card, this really is a significant change. Such a reduction of clock speeds comes with most dual GPU cards. Manufacturers do this to keep the maximum TDP within a reasonable envelope. A rough calculation shows that decreasing the clock speeds of both GPUs by 165 MHz let's NVIDIA save about 100 Watts of thermal dissipation power. A positive consequence of this measure is that they were able to put a single axial fan onto the card which operates at a resonable noise level. Furthermore NVIDIA put one massive cooling block onto each GPU which provides an efficient heat transport. Unfortunately the axial fan isn't able to blow all the air out of the case which will cause the temperature within your enclosure to rise. Therefore you really should be aware that the card can produce up to 365 Watts of thermal dissipation power and this will heat your case quite significantly. In 2D mode and placed in a closed computer case the cards noise cannot be separated from other coolers within your system but as soon as there is heavy 3D load you'll hear it quite well.

	ASUS GTX 590	NVIDIA GTX 580	AMD Radeon HD 6990	AMD Radeon HD 6970
Chip	GF110	GF110	2x Cayman XT	Cayman XT
Process	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Transistors	6.0 billion	3.0billion	5.28 billion	2.64 billion
GPU clock	613 MHz	772 MHz	830 MHz	880 MHz
Shader clock	1'215 MHz	1'544 MHz	830 MHz	880 MHz
Memory	2 x 1'536 MB GDDR4	1'536 MB GDDR5	2x 2'048 MB GDDR5	2'048 MB GDDR5
Memory clock	3'420 MHz	4'000 MHz	5'000 MHz	5'500 MHz
Memory interface	384 Bit	384 Bit	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory bandwidth	2 x 164'160 MB/s	192'400 MB/s	2 x 160'000 MB/s	176'000 MB/s
TMUs	2 x 64	64	2 x 96	96
TAUs	2 x 64	64	2 x 96	96
Shader Cores	2 x 512 (1D)	512 (1D)	2 x 384 (4D)	384 (4D)
ROPs	2 x 48 ROP	48 ROP	2 x 32 ROP	32 ROP
Shader model	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5	SM 5
Maximum board power	365 Watt	244 Watt	350 / 450 Watt	250 Watt

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications	Page 7 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant
Page 3 - Preview	Page 8 - World in Conflict / Resident Evil 5
Page 4 - Overclocking	Page 9 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 5 - Testing conditions	Page 10 - Conclusion

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