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today I will be reviewing my Nvidia pen it declares that you should insist on nvidia and it also has some other pretty good stuff on it first of all nvidia is the number one choice in pcs and consumer electronics also all GeForce GPUs are vista certified to the oldest Penance and is the number one choice for extreme gamers and nvidia defined the GPU category or at least they acquired whoever did neat actually that's not what we're doing t today we're going to be having a look at the GeForce GTX 590 this is going to be only one of my performance review videos of this particular card I'm going to do a few one of them is going to be all about 3d 3d vision so I'll only be comparing against other GeForce cards in that one I'm going to be doing one heavyweight showdown between the GTX 590 and the Radeon HD 6990 and that will actually be at a different resolution so battle is going to be at 2560 by 1600 with this beast of a monitor right here okay so that's my my 30-inch monitor but this one right here that you're watching is going to be all about 1080p performance now the GTX 590 and the 6990 for that matter are both a little bit overpowered for 1080p so what you're going to see is that they will dominate the performance charts in all likelihood but we're not going to see them really stretch their wings until you start to get into things like 3d for example as well as as well as HD plus resolutions like 2560 by 1600 what that 30-inch monitor uses so I'm going to talk a little bit about my testing methodology for most of these games on using 4x anti-aliasing at the max I am running all of the games at extreme maximum settings except for Crysis I turn motion blur to medium because it bothers me when it's any higher than I don't like playing the game that way so I just turn it off um yeah I think that's all there is to say so we're going to be looking at Hawks too Lost Planet 2 Metro 2033 so that's a civilization 5 so those are some DirectX 11 titles for us we've got Battlefield Bad Company 2 Far Cry 2 and Crysis 2 have a look at some DX 10 gaming any one of these GPUs is going to run any DirectX 9 title great so I personally don't find it all that relevant we're going to be looking at next gen features like tessellation more than anything else all of those DirectX 11 titles do support tessellation in some way shape or form so that's going to be a emphasis of what we're doing today so in terms of the configurations we're looking at this is going to be extreme performance stuff only we're not going to be looking at any dinky stuff so we've got the 590 the Radeon 6990 these are the two flagship $700 MSRP cards from Nvidia and AMD respectively we're also going to be looking at the GTX 580 sli which is another solution that gives you extreme performance on dual cards rather than on a single card because the two GTX 580 s are clocked higher than the GPUs on the 590 but they have the drawback of consuming more power kicking off more heat and taking up four slots in your computer rather than only two okay so there's that and then we've also got a single 6970 a single GTX 580 and then I've also thrown in GTX 560 TI sli so these two cards don't appear to match but actually they do and that is it's just an interesting configuration because it's a pretty good value for a high-end gaming system and I just wanted to see how it stacks up against what is essentially a Down clocked GF 110 dual GPU solution versus a fully clocked GTX 560 ti dual GPU solution so stay tuned guys for charts and graphs you so one of the things I did not mention in my introduction was my test bench I should probably cover that so I've got a core i7 2670 Bridge processor at 4.7 gigahertz I've got eight gigs of muskan redline ddr3 1600 gram I've got an ass Rock fatality motherboard I've got an Intel 510 series 120 gig SSD and that's pretty much it for the relevant performance related stuff so let's talk the overall results so I'll go through the games individually Hox two scales great the CPU is able to allow pretty much any of these cards to reach their full potential and shows us how they all perform relative to each other to an extent the Radeon cards don't perform nearly as well in Hawke's - as the geforce cards and thats an architectural thing could be driver related either way they get left in the dust they get creamed even the 6990 losses - gtx 560 sli and a single GTX 580 so that's that's kind of an interesting thing about that but it does allow us to show the relative performance of the GeForce solutions against each other at the very least Lost Planet 2 is another one is a very demanding game we are not CPU limited in any way in this particular title so each of the GPUs is able to really stretch their rings and show us what it is capable of so you see the 590 come out ahead of the 69 90 in this particular game as well Metro 2033 is another example of a game that all of the GPUs are able to perform quite well and so the 580 sli actually performs about the same as the 69 90 which means that the GTX 590 which doesn't perform as well as 580 SLI due to the lower clock speed actually falls behind a little bit in that title that's the first one so I can't say as well Battlefield Bad Company 2 is another one where we actually see pretty good scaling and we also see fairly close but I would say this is pretty much at AI fairly close performance between the 590 and the 6990 so say five this one seems to be fairly CPU limited although we do get a little bit of a performance increase with the 580 the anomaly here is 560 SLI which performs just as well as 580 SLI I got no idea why that is but I ran it again and again and again so my for my sieve five benchmark basically I take a very very late-game savegame that I have from actually playing the game and then I've got about thirty some-odd cities on the screen and then i zoom out all the way and I take a reading over a period of time and then average it out so pretty much we're just looking at the same static image we're centered over one of the cities so each of the cars is rendering exactly the same thing but that particular solution performs really well could be a driver thing that's preventing the single card solutions from performing as well as the dual card solutions not really sure what we're looking at there for far cry 2 yeah we're pretty much CPU limited at that point we are not in any way GPU bound any one of these graphics cards is going to be able to give you a very good experience in far cry 2 if you actually still play that game Crysis is another one looks like we are not going to be able to observe much in the way of scaling the one that really falls behind in far cry 2 is the 69 70 but the sixty nine ninety actually performs output it performs on top it actually outperforms even the GTX 580 s so at 1080p it looks like for the most part the 590 and the 6990 are going to be trading blows so it's going to take our testing at 2560 by 1600 to really separate the men from the boys in this case remember 2560 by 1600 is going to be an advantage for anyone who's got better multi-gpu scaling whether it's Nvidia or AMD it's also going to be an advantage for whoever has the most GPU power because you're going to be far less likely to run into CPU limitations at that kind of a resolution but it should give AMD a distinct advantage because more resolution means you need more video RAM in the 6990 actually has four gigs of RAM two per GPU whereas the 590 has three gigs of RAM 1.5 gigs per GPU so that may be a bit of an advantage the only way to know is to try out some titles out that res so thank you for checking out my video review of the GTX 590 at 1920 by 1080 1080 P resolution don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from Rouen boxing's reviews and other computer videos