NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 590: Duking It Out For The Single Card King
by Ryan Smith on March 24, 2011 9:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Civilization V is the latest incarnation in Firaxis Games’ series of turn-based strategy games. Civ5 gives us an interesting look at things that not even RTSes can match, with a much weaker focus on shading in the game world, and a much greater focus on creating the geometry needed to bring such a world to life. In doing so it uses a slew of DirectX 11 technologies, including tessellation for said geometry and compute shaders for on-the-fly texture decompression.
Civilization V is another title that normally works to NVIDIA’s benefit, and here we see the GTX 590’s biggest lead of the day. NVIDIA’s strong performance in this game with a single GPU directly translates into better performance for the dual-GPU GTX 590. Whether AMD will be able to find the rest of the magic that NVIDIA used to improve their Civ5 scores earlier this year remains to be seen.
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Cali3350 - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Last Page you have a seeming paragraph that says "Quickly, let's also..." and then stops.tipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Also "Unlike AMD isn’t using an exotic phase change thermal compound here" on the meet the card pagetipoo - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Another one "This doesn’t the game in any meaningful manner, but it’s an example of how SLI/CF aren’t always the right tool for the job." on the computation page.ahar - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
Page 2"...NVIDIA’s advice about SLI mirror’s AMD’s advice..."
mirrors
beepboy - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
"Quickly, let's also"Nice review.
slickr - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
For $700 I'd rather buy a whole new PC.Whats the point of playing games at larger resolutions than 1600x1050.
In fact I'd say that 720p resolution is probably the best to play games at, because it tends to be easier to follow since pixels kind of move faster and you have more precision and smoother gameplay experience.
I'd be keeping my AMD 6870 that is for sure!
HangFire - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
I've once heard that the secret to happiness is learning to like the taste of cheap beer.nyran125 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link
did you know thats actually true lol. If you can have your coffee black, then if milk runs out you still get to enjoy life......cjl - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - link
That depends entirely on your GPU. Several can push high resolutions at >60fps, and it's just as smooth. Gaming at 2560x1600 is just an awesome experience.Azethoth - Sunday, March 27, 2011 - link
Exactly, some of us have panels with native 2560x1600. I _could_ game at some miserable 1600x1050 resolution, or I could play at my native resolution. I choose 2560x1600 and ignore all review results at inferior resolutions. Damn you Crysis, damn you!