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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 - the 1024 Core Riposte

By Kenny Yeo - 24 Mar 2011

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

With so many units on screen at the same time, performance on Dawn of War 2 is largely dependent on the CPU. Hence, it wasn’t surprising to see that all the cards managed very comparable frame rates of around 75 - 77 frames per second. There was hardly any difference between the fastest cards here, which reaffirms the fact that to get the best out of these super high-end graphics cards, you need an equally powerful CPU.

NVIDIA’s GeForce cards have usually handled tessellation-heavy applications well but the GeForce GTX 590 bucks this trend. On Bad Company 2, we noticed that it only managed marginally better frame rates than a single GeForce GTX 580. It also lost out to the Radeon HD 6990 by a significant margin of around 15%.

A possible explanation for the GeForce GTX 590’s lackluster performance is that multi-GPU configurations often encounter issues with Bad Company 2. Looking at the graphs, we can see that results of the GeForce GTX 570 in SLI and also the Radeon HD 6970 in CrossFire were not as good as they should be.

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7.5
  • Performance 8.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 7
The Good
Blazing performance, though not as fast as its rival
3D Vision Surround on a single card
Effective cooler, pretty quiet
The Bad
Cooler vents hot air back to casing
Troublesome to SLI
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