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

The GeForce GTX 590 draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. You will need at least a 700 watt PSU to feed this monster with the electricity it needs to operate.

A GeForce logo is located to the left of the power connectors. This logo glows when the graphics card is operating.

A PCI Express 2.0 x16 is used as the main interface, of course. It’s also backward compatible with the older 1.0 revision.

To get even more performance, you can connect the GTX 590 with another one of its kind to form a Quad-SLI configuration with this connectors on top of the card. The Quad-SLI driver for GTX 590 will be available soon.

The display output selection consists of three DVI connectors and one mini display port. This is the first time NVIDIA provides a display port output on their graphics card. Using the available DVI connectors, you can output the display to three monitors simultaneously to activate the NVIDIA Surround and 3D Surround features. Previously, this could only be done using two separate graphics card.

Interesting ‘eh? It’s been a long time since the last time NVIDIA came up with this kind of graphics card. We have also completed a full performance review of the GTX 590. There, you can find out how NVIDIA’s latest dual-GPU monster performs in benchmarks and real world games. See you there!