14 DAY TRIAL // Together with all the other Nvidia board partners, Palit has also announced the introduction of a dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 graphics card that is available as we speak in Russia, Australia and Japan.
Just as is the case with almost all the other GTX 590 solutions launched until now, Palit's model follows to the letter Nvidia reference design that makes use of a centrally placed fan flanked by two vapor chamber heatsinks.
These have to draw the heat away from the two GF110 cores and also make contact with the memory chips that surround the GPUs.
Speaking of the GPUs, coupled together these pack no less than 1024 CUDA cores, 128 texturing units, 96ROP units and also feature dual independent 384-bit memory interfaces that connect to 3GB of GDDR5 video buffer.
The operating clocks of the cores are set at 608MHz, while the memory chips run at 853MHz (3414MHz data rate).
Performance wise, the GTX 590 is about as fast as AMD's dual-GPU solution, the Radeon HD 6990, but it all depends on the games that are run, as AnandTech has found out.
In addition to providing improved graphics performance, the dual-GPU setup of the card allowed Nvidia to enable multi-monitor 3D Vision support on the GTX 590, so it features three dual-link DVI connectors and a mini-DisplayPort video output.
Sadly, no details regarding the card's price have been made public until now, but Nvidia's MSRP for the GTX 590 is set at $699.99.
Until now, a wide number of GTX 590 solutions were announced by various Nvidia board partners and most of those followed Nvidia's reference design of the graphics card.
EVGA is the only notable exception as the company, together with its regular GTX 590, has also introduced a water-cooled version that also comes with a minor GPU overclock.