Nvidia GTX 590

[Pizzadude]

Can anybody give me some insight as to which is the highest performing solution the mighty GTX590 or two GTX580's from a crunching point of view.

[sunu]

2xGTX580.

A GTX590 is two heavily underclocked 580s.

[SciManStev]

There was a limited run of something called a Mars 2, which is a full double 580 that can be heavilly overclocked. A water cooled version was also available, but you were looking at I think $1700 per card. A pair of Mars 2 cards, a couple of top end PSU's, and a ferocious motherboard, RAM, and CPU will get you a formidable system, as well as in the poor house.

Steve

[Pizzadude]

There was a limited run of something called a Mars 2, which is a full double 580 that can be heavilly overclocked. A water cooled version was also available, but you were looking at I think $1700 per card. A pair of Mars 2 cards, a couple of top end PSU's, and a ferocious motherboard, RAM, and CPU will get you a formidable system, as well as in the poor house.

Steve

Mmmm, Ive located one and you are correct the spec is mouth watering but the price has reduced me to tears.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-262-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1966

[SubSpace]

I think that 2xGTX580 will be faster, than GTX590. Besides they can be overclocked.
And Mars 2 is too hot. One wrong move and it will burn. 

[MarkJ]

On another GPU project we find the factory OC'ed GTX570's to give a pretty close performance to the 580 without costing as much. So much so that they have become the card of choice.

[_heinz]

I run Colorful GTX570 with 830MHz stable. 3 of them would give you a production output over 1 Mio per day.

Heinz