GTX 590's are out.

see title.

check your favorite online store.
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Janice

So far they run hot and almost as slow as My MSI GTX295, 607MHz vs 576MHz. I've got 3 other GTX295 cards that are faster than the GTX590 and none of them are ever overclocked, Not that I couldn't, I just don't see a point in doing so on air cooling.
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Interesting, my understanding was the output of the GTX 580 was about 1.5 times that of the GTX 295. How many GTX 590's did you get Vic?
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Janice

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Janice

Part Number: 03G-P3-1598-AR
Core Clock Speed: 630MHz
CUDA Cores: 1024 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Wow.
Memory Clock Speed: 3456MHz
Memory Bandwidth: 331.7GB/sec
Shader Clock Speed: 1260MHz
Bus: PCI-E 2.0
Interface: DVI-I, DVI-I, DVI-I, Mini-DisplayPort
Product Warranty: Limited Lifetime warranty upon registration
Product Length: 11in - 279.4mm

The list of website reviewing the GTX590 is Here, Also It's come to light that the 267.52 Nvidia drivers don't work right, So unless You want a dead GTX590, Do not use them, As is mentioned Here. The [H]ardOCP has a YouTube video up showing the card being burned up on the 267.52 driver...
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as well as the optimized code (Fermi etc) and clock speeds, they do have a much higher number of cores(processors).

I have nothing bad to say about anyones graphics processor, especially if they like it. But to consider the 295's on the same level of the 590's is.. well just not the same.

Bang per buck, for crunching there can still be something to be said for the 295's. But for pure all out performance, not even going to be in the same ballpark.

And since the cards are running and shipping, I presume they have some working
drivers out. I have seen enough flakey driver issues to just find one that is stable, until the next stable one comes out. Rushing to update drivers can be a nose bleed.
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Janice

as well as the optimized code (Fermi etc) and clock speeds, they do have a much higher number of cores(processors).

I have nothing bad to say about anyones graphics processor, especially if they like it. But to consider the 295's on the same level of the 590's is.. well just not the same.

Bang per buck, for crunching there can still be something to be said for the 295's. But for pure all out performance, not even going to be in the same ballpark.

And since the cards are running and shipping, I presume they have some working
drivers out. I have seen enough flakey driver issues to just find one that is stable, until the next stable one comes out. Rushing to update drivers can be a nose bleed.

That did show an overclock/overvolt gone wrong. I am unconvinced the software drivers are to blame when it could easily have been power supply/ over stress/etc. Anyway.. be careful out there.
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Janice

If you read on their respective websites the 590's are voltage locked so they had to over volt them to test overclocking on them, resulting in this effect. The drivers have a voltage lock at 1.05v and these guys turned the card up to 1.2 volts?.....throttling on the driver level can't protect you from that. Of course xtremesytems as well as a Romanian site are saying the had no overclock or volt mod on their cards and it still happened. However the funny thing is Hardware Canucks has tested 13 of the cards a none of them died.He mentions sticking to stock voltages. Nvidia has a post up about it as well. Heh.

One other thing to note is they are commenting on great temperatures which is shocking. Also there is other news it's weak VRM's causing this to happen. Who knows, personally it just looks like a replay of just about every dual card every released, different problem same ole' story. They can never get these things out right, always issues of some sort.
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If you read on their respective websites the 590's are voltage locked so they had to over volt them to test overclocking on them, resulting in this effect. The drivers have a voltage lock at 1.05v and these guys turned the card up to 1.2 volts?.....throttling on the driver level can't protect you from that. Of course xtremesytems as well as a Romanian site are saying the had no overclock or volt mod on their cards and it still happened. However the funny thing is Hardware Canucks has tested 13 of the cards a none of them died.He mentions sticking to stock voltages. Nvidia has a post up about it as well. Heh.

One other thing to note is they are commenting on great temperatures which is shocking. Also there is other news it's weak VRM's causing this to happen. Who knows, personally it just looks like a replay of just about every dual card every released, different problem same ole' story. They can never get these things out right, always issues of some sort.

The biggest news on this front, in our view, is that Nvidia has put the clamps on GTX 590 voltage in its drivers. We shot down a rumor last week that the public-release 267.91 drivers somehow reduced the performance of a stock-clocked GTX 590. They simply do not. However, we've since learned Nvidia has capped the voltage at the default 938 mV on GTX 590 cards starting in release 267.91. We've confirmed that the latest 270.51 betas will not allow us to raise our GTX 590's voltage at all using MSI's Afterburner utility.

Quickly after the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 there came down many videos and tales of GTX 590 cards "burning up" and popping power circuitry when overclocking. The exploding GTX 590 cards happened because of one reason; some reviewers were not using the latest drivers for evaluation purposes. We always make sure we use the latest drivers as provided by NVIDIA when testing hardware, especially new hardware like this video card. Apparently, an earlier driver version (267.52) had faulty programming in the power management portion of the driver which caused the power management features on the GTX 590 to simply not work properly when over-volted. When people would crank the voltage up to 1.2v, or thereabouts, the video cards power circuitry couldn't handle it, and pop went the weasel.

Oh then Yer going to love what Nvidia and Asus did, As part of this was a faulty driver that didn't engage the voltage safeties and the video bios...

In the web release driver of GeForce GTX 590, we have added some important enhancements to our overcurrent protection for overclocking. We recommend anyone doing overclocking or running stress apps to always use the latest web driver to get the fullest protection for your hardware. Please note that overcurrent protection does not eliminate the risks of overclocking, and hardware damage is possible, particularly when overvoltaging. We recommend anyone using the GTX 590 board with the reference aircooler stick with the default voltage while overclocking, and avoid working around overcurrent protection mechanisms for stress applications. This will help maintain GTX 590's great combination of acoustics, performance, and reliability.

Geez...
These things sound like a time bomb.
I hope that they come packaged with a clear warning that they must be used with the latest drivers. I'm sure some folks are gonna pop them into their rigs with whatever driver they happen to be using at the time.

Have seen some conflicting reports about how hot they run at stock, much less OCd.

I've never played with the voltage on any of my GPUs...most run hot enough as it is.

If you plan on getting a 590 you might want to read some of the reviews on them. Most everything that I read is giving them horrible reviews. I had thought of getting some but not with how bad the reviews are.

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