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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 - the 1024 Core Riposte

By Kenny Yeo - 24 Mar 2011

Unigine "Heaven" 2.1 Results

Unigine "Heaven" 2.1 Results 

NVIDIA touts its cards as having more tessellation units that the competition, but on Unigine’s tessellation-intensive heaven benchmark, we noted that the GeForce GTX 590 was outclassed by the Radeon HD 6990. With tessellation enabled and anti-aliasing disabled, the frame rates achieved by the two cards were pretty comparable, but the GeForce GTX 590’s performance took a big dip when anti-aliasing was enabled and the Radeon HD 6990 managed to rack up an advantage of more than 10%.

It was the same story too when we disabled tessellation as the Radeons continued to maintain their lead. With tessellation disabled, the Radeon was as much as 18% faster.

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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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