NVIDIA Offers Up Its Own High-priced Supercard, the GTX 590

From DailyTech: AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 card was a bit of a preposterous preposition to consumers. It was hot, it was noisy, and it was expensive ($700). And it offered users less bang for their buck than two individual Radeon HD 6970s. Still, it was incredibly powerful and offered AMD bragging rights for owning the title of the most powerful single card solution.

NVIDIA wasn't about to let AMD walk away with this useless prize. So it went and released its own equally over-the-top dual-GPU supercard.

That card is the GeForce GTX 590 and it broke cover today.

The GTX 590 is built on the Fermi architecture and manufactured at a 40 nm process. It has a pair of GPU chips each with 512 stream processors. Those 1024 hungry processing units are paired with 3 GB of GDDR5 memory.

The core is clocked at 607 MHz, the shaders are clocked at 1214 MHz, and the memory is clocked at 853 MHz. The two GPU chips contain 6 billion transistors in total, and are manufactured by Taiwan's TSMC.

The card retails for a whopping $700 USD, $60 USD more than a pair of GeForce GTX 570s. And the price of special performance models climbs even higher, to $730 USD or more.

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