Even though there are only a small number of users that are able to afford high-end graphic cards - let alone dual-GPU cards - but they are still precious customers or both NVIDIA and AMD. So, things should be interesting very soon for these elite customers and general graphic cards enthusiasts alike as it has been rumoured that both companies will be launching their dual-GPU cards very close to each other starting from next month onwards.
According to the rumour, NVIDIA will be leading the pack by launching the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 sometime in mid-March which is to be followed by AMD with Radeon HD 6990 – that made a surprise appearance at AMD Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day event last month - one month after that. The NVIDIA GTX 590 is rumoured to come with dual NVIDIA’s GF110 GPU with a total of 1024 CUDA cores and 3027GB of GDDR5 memory while the AMD Radeon 580 is expected come with 3840 stream processors and 4GB of GDDR5 memory that is clocked at 4.80GHz.
The source also claimed that the reason AMD choose to launch their new card later than NVIDIA is because to avoid from giving NVIDIA room to tweak their GTX 590 to match AMD’s HD 6990 performances. Sounds like AMD are really confident of their upcoming dual-GPU card, eh? Like I said earlier, interesting times up ahead.
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