GeForce GTX 590 in February with dual GF110

[EarlZ]

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they can if they really wanted to

Even if they wanted they cant unless they redesign the chip and the width of the bus since its using 384bit and 64Mb GDDR5, either you get 1.5GB or 3GB per GPU since you need to add a pair of 64Mb to get it to work. 256bit (slower) or 512bit ( more expensive and a bigger die, increases manufacturing failure ) can also go with 2 or 4GB.

Theres a whole lot of explanation on memory allocation for different width sizes on the bus, Im pretty sure you already know about this issue but would just like to get 2GB instead of 3GB per GPU.

Then again this will be a very castrated (Full shader cound, significantly lower clockspeeds) GF110 just to make the 300W PCIE 2.0 spec, not worth the upgrade considering you already have 4x GTX580's

[P0w3rM0v3]

i completely forgot about that.
1 Byte = 8 bits
384 bits = 48 Bytes

@ 1536MB is divisible by 48 Bytes = 32 x10^6
@ 2GB / 48 Bytes = not completely divisible at 41.666666 x10^6

at 384 bits, the next logical step from a 1536MB memory would be 2304MB (2304MB/ 48B = 48 x10^6) but that would depend on the GDDR5 providers if they offer that. On a dual card that would be 4.608GB.

I only brought that up since the more powerful cards are going beyond HD resolutions in multi-monitor setups and there is a need for larger frame buffers to do that. The 5970 for example could very well run 2500x1600 but there were several instances that it was limited by its 1GB memory on each gpu.

[EarlZ]

at 384 bits, the next logical step from a 1536MB memory would be 2304MB (2304MB/ 48B = 48 x10^6) but that would depend on the GDDR5 providers if they offer that. On a dual card that would be 4.608GB.

What happened with the past 384bit cards goes with 3GB of RAM.

I only brought that up since the more powerful cards are going beyond HD resolutions in multi-monitor setups and there is a need for larger frame buffers to do that. The 5970 for example could very well run 2500x1600 but there were several instances that it was limited by its 1GB memory on each gpu.

True a 1GB card is only good at 1920x1080, I was playing on a friend's 30" 2560x1600 and even starcraft 2 would crawl at certain parts with max settings since the memory used on the videocard is already at 1GB and you can see the harddrive swapping out information.

[P0w3rM0v3]

What happened with the past 384bit cards goes with 3GB of RAM.

3GB would work too. 3.072GB to be more specific

[ieaiaio]

kmusta na ni hapit na human february x_X

[P0w3rM0v3]

kmusta na ni hapit na human february x_X

reviewers already hinting they have it. seems theyre just waiting for the NDA to lift.

[(-_-(0_-)-_-)]

... super power hungry card..
hahhahahaah