14 DAY TRIAL // With less than a week to go until the GeForce GTX 590 will become official, the first picture depicting the card made its way onto the web and pretty much confirms what we knew about Nvidia's dual-GPU solution from the leaked slide that reached the Web earlier this week.
The card pictured is a very early Nvidia prototype that has been built sometime at the beginning of January and was e-mailed to an Overclock.net forum moderator by an internal source.
However, its design seems to reflect what we do know about the card, as it comes with a fan placed right in a middle of a black plastic shroud which splits the GTX 590 into two different sections, each hosing a GF110 core.
The shroud should be easily removable, and underneath it we should find dual vapor chambers and a 10-phase power supply that sits on top of a 12-layer, 2oz copper printed circuit board.
As far as the card's specs are concerned, Nvidia has chosen to go with hand-picked GF110 cores that can work at 612MHz using only 0.96V, while the memory is clocked at 855MHz (3420MHz effective).
From what we know until now, the GTX 590 will use a fully fledged version of the GF110 core, and together, the two GPUs pack 1024 stream processors, 128 texturing units and 96 ROP units.
The graphics card also gets 3GB of GDDR5 video buffer that is connected to the two cores via a pair of independent 384-bit memory interfaces and has a TDP of 375W.
Going with a dual-GPU setup has enabled Nvidia to offer 3D Surround support in the GTX 590 so the card will feature a redesigned rear bracket that packs three dual-link DVI ports as well as a mini-DP output.
The GeForce GTX 590 is expected to be launched on March 22 and availability will be limited at first.