[PR] ZOTAC® Reveals World’s Fastest DirectX® 11 Graphics Card

New ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 obliterates existing visual and performance barriers

HONG KONG – Mar. 24, 2011 – ZOTAC® International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and mini-PCs, today reveals the GeForce® GTX 590 graphics card — the world’s fastest graphics card capable of delivering extreme visual clarity and mind-boggling frame rates. The new ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 combines a pair of high-performance graphics processors to form the ultimate graphics card for gamers that obliterates existing visual and performance barriers.

A pair of Fermi graphics processors delivers a combined 1024 unified shaders for earth-shattering performance that is ready to tackle all current and upcoming game titles powered by Microsoft® DirectX® 11 technology with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590. Large amounts of video memory – 3GB –enable the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 to tackle the latest titles with maximum details and enhance games with up to 32x levels of anti-aliasing for stunning visuals and details that mimic reality.

The ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 delivers an unmatched gaming experience with native support for seamless triple-display gaming with NVIDIA® Surround technology. When combined with 3D-ready monitors and television, the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 delivers stunning stereoscopic 3D effects with Blu-ray 3D movies, 3D photos and hundreds of PC games for absolute immersion.

“Our ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 is engineered to deliver the absolute best PC gaming experience available. With the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590, gamers can experience triple-monitor gaming with DirectX® 11 technology, stereoscopic 3D effects and realistic physics processing on a single graphics card for the first time,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC® International.

Quad NVIDIA® SLI readiness enables two ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 graphics cards to combine in a single system and deliver up to 3.4-times the performance of a single graphics processor for triple-monitor gaming at high-definition resolutions with smooth-as-butter frame rates.

A download voucher for a full copy of Assassin’s Creed®: Brotherhood is included with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 to let gamers experience the full capabilities of the graphics card on the game’s March 24, 2011 release date. Brotherhood takes gamers on an epic adventure through a beautifully digitized city of Rome, Italy with a captivating storyline as the Master Assassin Ezio Auditore to fight greed and free the city of corrupt tyrants.

It’s time to play with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590!

General details

• New ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590 graphics card
• Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 500 GPUs
• Engine clock: 607 MHz
• 1024 unified shaders (512 shaders per GPU)
• Shader clock: 1215 MHz
• 3GB GDDR5 memory (1536MB per GPU)
• Memory clock: 3414 MHz
• 768-bit memory interface (384-bit per GPU)
• Triple dual-link DVI-I & mini-DisplayPort outputs
• PCI Express 2.0 interface (Compatible with 1.1)
• Microsoft DirectX^® 11 & OpenGL^® 4.1 compatible
• NVIDIA^® CUDA^™ technology with CUDA C/C++
• NVIDIA® PhysX® technology
• NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Surround ready
• Quad NVIDIA® SLI®-ready
• ZOTAC® Boost Premium software bundle included
• Assassin’s Creed®: Brotherhood full game bundle (download voucher)

Specifications:

Product Name	ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 590
GPU	Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 500 series
Engine Clock speed	607 MHz
Unified Shaders	1024 (512 per GPU)
Shader Clock	1215 MHz
Memory Clock speed	3414 MHz
Memory	3072MB DDR5 (1536MB per GPU)
Memory interface	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Display Outputs	Triple DL-DVI-I, mini-DP
HDCP	Yes
Cooling	Active (with fan) (dual-slot)
DirectX® version	DirectX® 11 with Shader Model 5.0
Other hardware features	8-channel Digital Surround Sound, HDMI 1.4a compatible, HD Audio bitstream capable, hardware accelerated Blu-ray 3D ready, Quad NVIDIA® SLI™ ready, NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Surround ready
Software Features	nView® Multi-Display, Hardware Video Decode Acceleration Technology, NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology, OpenGL® 4.1,
Windows 7 capability	Windows® 7 with DirectCompute support