Nvidia Launches GTX 590 Pci Graphics Card

Nvidia has just launched its dual GPU monstrosity, the GTX 590, which it claims to be world's fastest graphics card. The card will go on sale from various board partners starting at $699 (Rs. 31,400) so by the time it lands on our shores, expect the price to be inflated to HD 6990 levels.

Like all dual GPU cards, the GTX 590 has twin GTX 580 cores running in SLI on a single PCB. This means there's double of everything right from shaders, ROPs, transistors, memory and memory bandwidth. The card measures a massive 11-inches in length with a huge vapor chamber cooler to keep temperatures in check. The central fan is quite large thereby allowing it to disperse the hot air more effectively and run quitter at the same time. In fact, the GTX 590's cooler measures only 48dB of noise under full load which is a lot quieter than AMD's HD 6990. The graphics card will also have native support for 3DVision surround since it packs in two GPUs.

I guess the million dollar question is, does it beat the competition? Well, according to early reports floating around the web, it's not faster than Antilles which means the performance crown for the fastest card in the world stays with AMD. We'll know for sure though once we get our review unit in. Expect the card to hit Indian shores in the coming weeks.