14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590, while found to be actually slower than the Radeon HD 6990 in some tests, did not suffer from a lack of eager buyers, at least not in the US.
NVIDIA may not have garnered the applause and laurels it may have wished for when it produced the GeForce GTX 590, but it US sales didn't seem to fall short of hopes.
For those that need a reminder, the card is the first dual-GPU model from NVIDIA to feature support for DirectX 11 graphics.
It has two GF110 graphics processing units, as well as 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and overall a very high performance level.
Of course, being so overpowered, it came with a suitably high price and was not manufactured in too large a volume of units.
Nevertheless, it has been discovered that US stores have pretty much exhausted their supply of cards, something that cannot be said for Europe.
Apparently, whether because the recession's influence is still being felt there or not, Europe seems to have fewer people willing to pay the large price of top-grade dual-chip adapters.
On that note, we earlier stumbled upon reports that said prices were now going down in that regions as well.
While, originally, NVIDIA asked for roughly $650, there are now listings of as little of $603, $605, $609, etc.
Another thing that may take users by surprise is the fact that there are very few factory-overclocked models out there.
Point of View and TGT are one of the few exceptions, as they collaborated and delivered models of 668 MHz and 691 MHz.
The same goes for consumers, who didn't try to mess with the clock settings overmuch, at least not that the Internet has found. All in all, even though NVIDIA would have wanted more money per card, it seems that even the toned town tag was too much for most Europeans.