Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by MojoKid » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested
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Re: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by neutronicus » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

Argh. The article makes one little nod to CUDA, and then doesn't mention the compute capability. Sigh.

Re: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by wisty » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:10 PM UTC

neutronicus wrote: post #2

Argh. The article makes one little nod to CUDA, and then doesn't mention the compute capability. Sigh .

"... each with 512 CUDA cores". So it's a Giga-core machine? Wow.

Re: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by JoachimSchipper » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

wisty wrote: post #3

neutronicus wrote: post #2

Argh. The article makes one little nod to CUDA, and then doesn't mention the compute capability. Sigh .

"... each with 512 CUDA cores". So it's a Giga-core machine? Wow.

Giga usually means 10^9 (or 2^30); don't you mean kilo-core?

Re: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by jbooth » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:46 PM UTC

neutronicus wrote: post #2

Argh. The article makes one little nod to CUDA, and then doesn't mention the compute capability. Sigh .

It's almost definitely 2.0 since all of the other GF110-based chips are.

My question is, does it look like 1 device or 2 to the CUDA driver? If the memory was shared across 1 virtual device with 3GB, that'd be sweet.

Re: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Dual-GPU Monster Graphics Card Launched, Tested

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Post by whakojacko » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:12 PM UTC

neutronicus wrote: post #2

Argh. The article makes one little nod to CUDA, and then doesn't mention the compute capability. Sigh .

Not really surprising, since CUDA isn't a major selling point for most potential customers. The Anandtech review goes into a little more detail: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-d...