Introduction

There are many factors which appear to make something look better than they actually are, but when you peel away the layers, you will see reality plain as day. I bet you have seen plenty of squatted four-banger coupes with candy colored paint and plenty of decals try to race down the road, or heavy iron block choppers with the exhaust baffles removed so you can hear them a mile away. These things are loud and in your face but performance-wise, are a joke, much like the posturing clowns who ride them. Sure, it takes some time and effort to build and customize these things, but compared to the engineering effort it takes to design and build a Veyron or a Ducati superbike, it almost seems like a weekend project. You do not have to rev a supercar and impress people with the noise to let everyone know it's fast, you simply have to step on the gas so it can do 0 to 100 in 2.5 seconds.

In much the same way, you can’t just clobber together a bunch of hardware and expect it to perform well, especially if you are designing the world’s fastest video card. Brute force has its uses, but focused design wastes less resources and leads to fewer problems in the long run. First, you have to make sure that the core design is sound and feasible, next you pick high quality components that will contribute significantly to efficient performance. Finally, you have to make some final adjustments and make sure that your product is competitive in the market it is entering. That engineering spotlight points directly to NVIDIA’s latest and greatest creation: the GeForce GTX 590 video card.

The EVGA GTX 590 Classified video card consists of two GF110 GPUs on a single PCB. The EVGA GTX 590 Classified has 3,072MB of GDDR5 memory on a 768-bit memory interface equipped with 1,024 CUDA cores. Clocked higher than the stock GTX 590, the EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Classified edition carries a core clock of 630 MHz and a memory clock of 3456 MHz. Despite the muscle, the EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Classified runs silently with a single low RPM fan actively cooling a pair of advanced vapor chamber heatsinks and only measures eleven inches in length. For enthusiasts who want maximum performance in ultra high resolutions, including 2560 x 1600 with up to 64x AA, the EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Classified’s power is hard to ignore.