10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How well will the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition run 2023 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 265 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will deliver weak frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 17 FPS, Medium: 14 FPS, High: 9 FPS and Ultra: 7 FPS. We proceeded to look at FIFA 22 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a good 66 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have researched Grand Theft Auto VI and predict it will be weak. The frame rates predicted for the game presets were - Low: 13 FPS, Medium: 10 FPS, High: 7 FPS and Ultra: 5 FPS. We added FIFA 22 to our tests and saw it was reasonable with a 50 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Far Cry 6 which got 4 FPS at Ultra 1440p. 1440p GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition PC gaming is not going to be able to keep stable frame rates at all times at Ultra 1440p on modern games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition in your PC? Our current calculations suggest a graphics card upgrade will be required in around 12-18 months

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition? A good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 36% better and can meet 716 of their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 590 Mars II Asus Edition would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB which meets 956 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 92% better performance.