NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 590: Duking It Out For The Single Card King
by Ryan Smith on March 24, 2011 9:00 AM ESTMetro 2033
The next game on our list is 4A Games’ Metro 2033, their tunnel shooter released last year. In September the game finally received a major patch resolving some outstanding image quality issues with the game, finally making it suitable for use in our benchmark suite. At the same time a dedicated benchmark mode was added to the game, giving us the ability to reliably benchmark much more stressful situations than we could with FRAPS. If Crysis is a tropical GPU killer, then Metro would be its underground counterpart.
With single-GPU scores in Metro things are rather close, but with these dual-GPU cards scaling becomes a factor. As a result while the GTX 590 falls well behind the 6990 here, facing a sizable 15% gap in performance. The overclocked GTX 590 can just close the gap, but then the 6990 OC opens it back up just as quickly. In the meantime as shading performance is often the most critical factor in this benchmark, this explains why overclocking was so effective.
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Cali3350 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Last Page you have a seeming paragraph that says "Quickly, let's also..." and then stops.tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Also "Unlike AMD isn’t using an exotic phase change thermal compound here" on the meet the card pagetipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Another one "This doesn’t the game in any meaningful manner, but it’s an example of how SLI/CF aren’t always the right tool for the job." on the computation page.ahar - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Page 2"...NVIDIA’s advice about SLI mirror’s AMD’s advice..."
mirrors
beepboy - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
"Quickly, let's also"Nice review.
slickr - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
For $700 I'd rather buy a whole new PC.Whats the point of playing games at larger resolutions than 1600x1050.
In fact I'd say that 720p resolution is probably the best to play games at, because it tends to be easier to follow since pixels kind of move faster and you have more precision and smoother gameplay experience.
I'd be keeping my AMD 6870 that is for sure!
HangFire - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
I've once heard that the secret to happiness is learning to like the taste of cheap beer.nyran125 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link
did you know thats actually true lol. If you can have your coffee black, then if milk runs out you still get to enjoy life......cjl - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
That depends entirely on your GPU. Several can push high resolutions at >60fps, and it's just as smooth. Gaming at 2560x1600 is just an awesome experience.Azethoth - Sunday, March 27, 2011 - link
Exactly, some of us have panels with native 2560x1600. I _could_ game at some miserable 1600x1050 resolution, or I could play at my native resolution. I choose 2560x1600 and ignore all review results at inferior resolutions. Damn you Crysis, damn you!