14 DAY TRIAL // Now that the specifications of AMD's dual-GPU monster graphics card, the HD 6990, have been made public, everyone's attention turns toward Nvidia's response, the GTX 590, and one of the latest reports to make it to the Web suggests that the card has already been showcased behind closed doors at CeBIT 2011.
This latest development in the GTX 590 saga comes from the Fudzilla website which claims that it has witnessed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 in action.
According to the website, the card looks slightly different than the EVGA solution that was showcased during CES 2011 and is powerful enough to run Crysis 2 in 3D at some “very nice frame rates.”
In addition, the board uses dual PCI-E 8-pin power plugs and has been described as “rather hot” by those who saw it.
The GeForce GTX 590 will become Nvidia's flagship graphics card and is built using dual GF110 graphics cores that are installed on the same printed circuit board (PCB) and setup to work in SLI.
The GPU's used will be hand selected from the GF110 cores that are manufactured over at TSMC and the board 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 video frame buffer.
Sadly, we don't know the frequencies that the GPUs and the memory chips will be run at, but Fudzilla suggests that Nvidia may be waiting to see the performance numbers of AMD's HD 6990 before finalizing the specs of its graphics card.
No further details were available at this time, but the GTX 590 is rumored to be launched during the PAX East 2011 gamer festival, that will be held between March 11 and March 13 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.