14 DAY TRIAL // With just a couple of hours left until the Nvidia GTX 590 becomes official, the first pictures detailing the card in all of its glory made their way to the Web and provide us with an in-depth look at the PCB and at the card's dual vapor chamber cooling solution.
[ADMArk=1]The card that was dismantled is built by Yeston, but as this follows Nvidia's reference design for the GTX 590, its insides are common to every other solution built on top of Nvidia latest dual-GPU creation.
Returning to the matter at hand, gaining access to the cooling chamber is as simple as it gets since the GTX 590 comes with a removable plastic shroud.
Underneath it, a centrally placed high airflow fan is flanked by two vapor chamber heatsinks that cool the two GF110 GPUs used by Nvidia.
Together, these pack no less than 1024 stream processors, 128 texturing units, 96 ROP units and dual 384-bit memory interfaces that connect to 3GB of video buffer (1.5GB each).
Clock speeds are set at 607MHz for the two cores and the memory runs at 855MHz (3420MHz effective).
By removing the vapor chambers and the central heatspreader, we get to see the 2oz copper PCB that uses a 10-phase VRM and dual PCIe 8-pin connectors for providing the board with the power required.
Together with the pictures of the card, the Chinese PC Online website also posted an Nvidia slide that compared the noise level of the GTX 590 with that of AMD's dual-GPU flagship card, the Radeon HD 6990.
This claims that Nvidia's solution is about 10dBA less noisy, but these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt as we don't get to know the conditions of the test.
The GeForce GTX 590 will be officially launched in a few hours’ time at a yet-undisclosed price point.
