14 DAY TRIAL // Now that the Radeon HD 6990 has made its official debut, all eyes are turned towards Nvidia's upcoming dual-GPU solution that is slated to become official later this month, and latest reports suggests that the card will launch on March 22.
Previously, everybody expected the GeForce GTX 590 to be made official during the PAX East 2011 gamer festival, that will be held between March 11 and March 13, but it appears that this date has changed.
Based on the reports that were available until now, the card is built using dual GF110 cores (the same cores used for the GTX 570 and GTX 580) which are installed together on a single printed circuit board and configured to work in SLI.
This could mean that the card 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 GDDR5 video buffer, 1536MB for each of the graphics cores.
To keep in check the power consumption of the card, Nvidia will build the GTX 590 using only hand-selected GPUs.
Right now, we don't have any definitive details regarding its TDP, but this is expected to use over 350W, or even 400W, as a single GTX 570 has a TDP of 219W.
Just as in the case of the recently launched Radeon HD 6990, keeping in check the temperatures of such a card will require a pretty beefy cooling system, that will most definitely generate a decent amount of noise and heat while in full load.
Sadly, no details regarding the clock speeds of the GTX 590 are available at this time, but, it seems that Nvidia has eventually finalized the I/O bracket of the board, that will now feature no less than three dual-link DVI ports as well as a mini-DisplayPort video output.
As stated earlier, the card is now expected to ship on March 22, and, although stocks will be limited at first, availability should increase over time. (via Donanim Haber)
