GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990 Face Off

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:12AM from the there-can-be-only-two dept.

Vigile writes "Both NVIDIA and AMD have recently released new extreme-high-end graphics cards with dual-GPU configurations and PC Perspective has compared them to each other with some standard SLI/CrossFire comparisons for good measure. The GTX 590 is a pair of 512 shader processor GF110 GPUs which had the potential to be the fastest combination available, but the clock speeds were lowered to such a level that is has trouble keeping up with AMD's Radeon HD 6990. Sound levels were noticeably better on NVIDIA's option though the Radeon card provided better frame rates at the highest resolutions. So, while the $700 video card market just got a pair of new competitors, the best investment for that money might still be two less expensive Radeon or GeForce single-GPU cards."

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Troll and flamebait by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-24 02:43 · Score: 5, Insightful

I bought 560Ti and there are still no stable linux drivers for it. As far as I am concerned, I do not care for latest and greatest cards anymore. "Latest" to me now equals "have stable linux drivers".
Innovation is good if it is for the people and not just for the sake of innovation and showing off.