Gadgetory

so behind me guys you see everything I will be needing for my heavy weight GPU battle that is my P 67 with core i7 2604 clock to 4.7 gigahertz my 8 gigs as much can redline Ram I've got my 120 gig Intel SATA 3 5 10 series SSD and I have a 30-inch monitor supporting a resolution of 2560 by 1600 so this is the highest single monitor res that you will typically find in a PC scenario although it's fairly atypical most people do not have 30 inch monitors however the kinds of people who are buying these $700 graphics cards often have 30 inch monitors so that's why this is fairly relevant now the reason that these video cards re the reason that a lot of people who own these video cards have 30 inch monitors is that they're very well made for each other these video cards don't really stretch their wings until you give them a 30-inch monitor to play in otherwise they don't really separate themselves from the rest of the pack and a 30-inch monitor is not really able to perform properly without a powerful graphics card driving it especially if you want to play the latest 3d games so for this heavyweight showdown I will be taking the 6990 and the GTX 590 and they will be battling out like this no but really I'll be doing benchmarks you so as you guys can clearly see from the charts and graphs segments of the video this isn't really a clear-cut decision so the GTX 590 and the 6990 actually trade blows depending on which title you are most interested in running this holds true at 1920 by 1080 as well as at 2560 by 1600 so it seems to be just generally how these cards perform with respect to each other so I mean the best thing to do would be to find reviews and find out if either card has a clear advantage in the games that you do prefer to play and you can make a decision based on that but there are also some other factors so each AMD and NVIDIA have some advantages that are unique to their cards that are different from each other so both of them have a similar similar cooling solutions in the sense that they both use a central fan that exhausts the majority of the heat into your case so that's something that you may or may not want to factor in the mu1 probably exhaust a little bit more out of the case because the Nvidia card has this DVI port right here okay so that's something that probably won't weigh in on the next thing that I would probably consider is power consumption so the power consumption of the AMD card is significantly higher especially under load at idle the GTX 590 is a substantially lower power consumption card another thing to factor in is definitely noise the 6990 is a significantly louder card if you check out my video I actually have one that is either uploaded now or will be uploaded soon depending when you're watching this where I compare the acoustics of the GTX 590 with the acoustics of the $69.99 I also look at the temperatures that they run at you can factor in price price is definitely something although they should be priced fairly similar at least at launch similarly excuse me and then the other thing would be unique features so unique features these two GPU makers are would be eyefinity is the big one on the AMD side so the 6990 actually supports up to five displays so I've got a video up on my NCIX comm channel where I actually run five displays in portrait mode for five times HD resolution and run some games on that it looks pretty cool it's a very neat gaming experience and then on the nvidia side we've got 3d vision so 3d vision is long stereoscopic 3d with an NVIDIA ecosystem so you just have to have a 3d vision supporting display their projectors there were monitors out there you have to have the 3d vision glasses and then you have to have a GeForce graphics card so they got 3d vision they've also got physics so there's a number of games that support physics effects and last but not least they've got CUDA so CUDA will allow you to use your GPU to offload some compute style calculations to your GPU no direct compute is supported on AMD cards and some some applications do take advantage of that as well so thank you for checking out my video on the you know Babel of the heavy weight Titan graphics cards and hopefully you'll excuse me for my mistakes while filming this after all it is not very it is not a normal time of day and I'm very tired and I would really like to go to sleep so you can I had everyone don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos I can find the button at the big