Feb 17, 2011 21:01 GMT  ·  By

Nvidia seems to be getting ready to launch not just one but two new video boards, the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 and the GeForce GTX 550 Ti as both of these graphics cards have been listed in one of the configurations files that come with the company's 266.7x beta drivers.

While rumors about the GTX 590 have been out for some time, the GTX 550 Ti is an entirely new graphics card and, according to VR-Zone, the website that made these findings, it will be based on the GF116-400 graphics processor.

This is the first Nvidia model to be based on this GPU, so no details are available at this time regarding the specifications of the board outside of the fact that it features 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

Since the cheapest model in Nvidia's GTX 500 family is the $250 priced GTX 560 Ti, the new card is expected to retail for somewhere in the vicinity of $200.

As far as the GTX 590 is concerned, we do know that the board is going to use dual GF110 GPUs as well as a massive 3GB of GDDR5 video frame buffer.

According to some recent leaks that have reached the Web, the GTX 590 is built using hand-picked GF110 cores and packs 1024 stream processors, 128 texturing units, 96 ROPs and dual 384-bit memory interfaces.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 is designed to compete with AMD's Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" GPU that is also expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2011.

No details regarding the launch date of the cards are known at this time, but, as Nvidia listed them in this beta driver, their release can't be that far off.

Last year, when the GTX 580 was listed in a development driver, it only took Nvidia two weeks to make the card official.