6990 vs GTX 590
 

According to Clubic and AnandTech, the winner is....

6990...for performance...But the GTX 590 is quieter and ok to overclock...But the GTX is too expensive vs 6990...But the 6990 is better suited for future technologies...But GTX would be better for actual games...

HAha! Anyway, a pair of GTX 570 in SLI is close in performance and cheaper...
And anyway , $700.00 is too much money ! :rolleyes:

Salute !

Dual graphic cards are pointlessly expensive imo. Most game developers design there game to run on mid to low range cards on standard to max settings. Crysis was an exeption.

nVidia these days have been slipping. I'm using a 6850 Black edition (dual fan) as a replacement to by 8800 ultra. I actually could not be happier with the performance. It absalutely destroys the 460 (stock).

The math is simple.... you play on one screen, go with a single gtx/gpu

SLI/Dual gpu cards is mainly for mainstream games and/or multiple screens... most games gives ya equal or less fps mostly (4 years of sli experience.. now runnning a single 580 on a single 27" screen)

I hear you...I think that we have to first know, regarding COD, what will be the "bottleneck" in terms of performances...It could be the CPU itself...
So a top dual video card may be useless for now...
Since the I7 2600K is the fastest CPU , and costs only $325.00, we may
be quite ok with mid perfomance cards if we get a fast CPU like the I7...
We will know in few hours !

Salute!

6990 has mind blowing performance, but you will need to spend extra cash for a proper cooler or a water cooling solution. With 590 you get what you pay for - a decent cooler, much lower consumption and a quiet(er) card. Not mentioning the length.

This makes 6990 a FAIL in my mind. I expected more from AMD.

I play with a headset on, so I could care less the noise that thing makes... cool hit with a IO540 lycoming blowing on it for all I care...

I like AMD's eyefinity... so this makes it a WIN for me.

It all comes down to your personnal preference.

590 is capable of running 3 monitors on its own.

If you read more amongst various reviews you will see that both cards either blew up or overheated when pushed to their limits. Single card with single GPU FTW IMO: no driver problems, no micro stuttering problems, no heat dissipation / cooling problems, no excessive power needed...

I would suggest looking into a 5970 as a cheaper alternative, its rather large but an impressive piece if equipment.

I have to say it's good to hear that amd can still produce a card to challenge nvidia I was a bit worried when they mothballed ati and brought out the 6750 that was virtually the same as the 5750!!!

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Its not more expencive, it costs exactly the same. At least where i live.


Anyway, im not gonna buy either of them so its a moot point for me. :)

S!

So I just slap in another 6970HD I have and good to go :) The reviews claimed 6970HD to be hot and noisy as well, but I have NONE of those problems. I play World Of Tanks for a day and temps are max. 63'C and fan speed around 30-35%. Not really hot to me ;) In any game I have played the temps have never gone above 70'C for me. As said, use a GOOD and VENTILATED case that is placed so that airflow is not blocked.

Anyways..waiting more for Bulldozer, some preliminary tests have shown great performance ;)

The i7 2600k is not the fastest CPU. That would be the following:

i7 995x @ 3.60ghz

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

fastest at passmark by a hair, but you do realize there are other benchmarks where it's not faster, right? Like any benchmark that's not heavily threaded...

Oh, and good luck finding a 995X, and since you have more money than brains, have fun spending about 4x what the 2600K cost.

We'll stick with what he specifically stated. Not what's the wisest choice dollar for dollar. Fastest it's not. Even when it might be by just a hair. No problem on my end finding a 995x....readily available where I'm at.