Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 review, with a twist

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of this hugely popular synthetic benchmark. Making use of DX11 features such as tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading, it provides modern-day results and is available as a free download.

The regular GTX 590 is slower than a couple of Radeon HD 6950 cards running in tandem. Ramping up the clocks pushes up performance by around 10 per cent, but it's just enough to overtake a Radeon HD 6990 in non-Turbo mode.