14 DAY TRIAL // It seems like the very first samples of Nvidia's GTX 590 graphics cards have already reached hardware reviewers and enthusiasts as some early benchmark results of the dual-GPU solution have already been leaked, detailing its Crysis performance.
The screenshot of the Framebuffer Crysis benchmark Tool has been posted by a Czech blogger that goes by the name of OBRovsky and has come to our attention via the XtremeSystems forum.
Nvidia's GTX 590 was tested using a six-core Intel Core i7 980X processor, that was clocked at 3575MHz, together with an un-named Gigabyte X58 motherboard while the Crysis benchmark was run using the Ambush map at a 1920x1080 resolution with 16x anti-aliasing using the Extreme quality profile and the DirectX 10 render path.
The results speak for themselves as the GTX 590 managed to render, in average, 83.61 frames each second while the minimum frame rate recorded was that of 57.59fps.
No other details were provided together with this quick benchmark, but, from previous leaks, we do know that the GTX 590 will feature dual GF110 GPUs that are paired together on the same printed circuit board and connected via SLI.
The GPU's used will be hand selected from the GF110 cores that are manufactured over at TSMC and the board could pack as much as 1024 stream processors, 128 texturing units, 96 ROPs as well as dual 384-bit memory interfaces. These will be connected to 3072MB of video frame buffer. Although nothing is certain at this point, the GTX 590 is rumored to launch during the PAX East 2011 gamer festival, that will be held between March 11 and March 13 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.
When it becomes available, the GTX 590 will go head to head with AMD's Radeon HD 6990 that is scheduled to be released on March 8.
UPDATE: As our readers have pointed it out, the original source of these rumors was apprently a fake so the claims made in the article regarding the performance of the GTX 590 are unfounded.
Many thanks to those who have spotted the discrepancies and let us know about them.