Review- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 (Part 1): Specification and Features

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Oik Yusuf Araya

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Graphics Card

March 25, 2011

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Specification

The packaging is unique, but what about the graphics card itself? Take a look at the specification table above to learn about technical specification. Since the GTX 590 is essentially a combination of two GTX 580 (GF 110) GPUs, it has twice as much technical prowess (shader processors, ROPs, etc.) compared to a single GTX 580. The operating frequencies of each GPU are significantly lowered down though, maybe to keep the TDP and temperature down at reasonable levels.

The GTX 590 was previously codenamed “Gemini”. That name sure represented the twin GPU utilized by the final product.

The Graphics card

Now this is how the GeForce GTX 590 looks like:

The graphics card itself is 11 inch long. It’s relatively short for a double-GPU solution like this one. It’s even shorter than a similar offering from AMD, the Radeon HD 6990, which we also received not too long ago. You can read about it in our Radeon HD 6990 article here.

The reference heat sink-fan (HSF) looks rather simple with one, 9-cm fan sitting right in the middle. This allows each GPU (situated to the left and to the right of the fan) to have an equal amount of airflow passing around them. Part of that airflow, however, goes inside the casing due to the nature of the design. It’s therefore a good idea to maintain good airflow inside your casing if you’re going to have a GTX 590 in it.