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POV/TGT launches GTX 590 Ultra Charged - pokes Radeon HD 6990 in the eye

by Tarinder Sandhu on 25 March 2011, 14:52

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Enough horsepower to dethrone AMD's best?

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU graphics goliath rolled into town yesterday afternoon with the express aim of shooting down AMD's Radeon HD 6990 and claiming the title of world's fastest graphics card.

NVIDIA reckons it's done just that, but our findings suggest that AMD has repelled the NVIDIA threat with something to spare. What's really needed, we said, was for a partner to take the initiative and launch an overclocked GTX 590, for the frequency headroom is certainly there.

It now transpires that POV/TGT has done just that by announcing the GTX 590 Charged and Ultra Charged cards.

Throwing caution to the wind, POV/TGT casts the reference 607MHz core and 3,414MHz memory frequencies aside and clocks the Ultra Charged in at 691MHz core and 3,710MHz memory, representing genuine hikes in performance: the card should benchmark at least 10 per cent faster. Priced at an eye-watering €729, premium GTX 590s aren't cheap, clearly.

For those whose budgets don't quite extend that far, POV/TGT has the GTX 590 Charged . Clocking in at 668MHz core and 3,628MHz memory and attracting a retail price of €679, POV/TGT's reference-looking cards certainly push the boundaries of what's possible.

HEXUS is due to receive the POV/TGT Ultra Charged card in the next day or so, and we wait with bated breath to see if it can dethrone the significantly cheaper Radeon HD 6990 OC as the graphics champ. Who is your money on?



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My money's on the electricity companies, who'll be raking it in from people who buy heavily overclocked GTX590s! I hate to think how much additional power draw the higher clocks require…
As shown in Hexus' own review there is enough headroom on the GTX590, in releasing a product with moderate frequencies is Nvidia just happy to appease their partners? As always, there will be a flurry of faster versions with more abbreviations and higher asking prices waiting to be released by partners.
MSI claims thier gtx 590 can be oc to:
Overvoltage Function of GPU
- Support overvoltage function of GPU to boost 38% performance up.
- GPU clock is overclocked from 607 MHz to 840 MHz.
source msi.com
aberkae
MSI claims thier gtx 590 can be oc to:
Overvoltage Function of GPU
- Support overvoltage function of GPU to boost 38% performance up.
- GPU clock is overclocked from 607 MHz to 840 MHz.
source msi.com

Asus claims 50% :)



http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=29705
MadduckUK
Asus claims 50% :)



http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=29705

MY GTx 480 box is identical to that other than the card name and the gtx 460 i had before that also has the same 50% claim on the box