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Do you want the most powerful graphics card for your gaming PC rig? Nvidia wants you to believe it has it with the newly announced GeForce GTX 590 graphics card. This massive dual GPU card (actually two GTX 580 chips in one) with 3 GB of RAM will set you back about $699.

But is it the fastest card you can buy? Well, our sister site Engadget has gathered up a list of reviews from various PC hardware sites. Their overall verdict is that rival AMD's recently launched dual GPU card the Radeon HD 6900 (also priced at $699) actually edges out the GeForce GTX 590 in terms of pure performance and benchmarks. Still if you can afford a graphics card that costs more than a lot of full featured PCs you likely won't care about one or two frames per second.

We thought that Nvidia might reveal its next high end PC graphics card at PAX 2011 but apparently it wasn't ready for prime time. That will apparently change on Thursday at 9 am Eastern time as Nvidia has released a teaser video (you can check it out after the jump) showing Nvidia's Tom Peterson showing a box labeled "Tom Secret".

While Nvidia is keeping to the company line, the internet rumors strongly suggest that this new graphics card will be called the GeForce GTX 590 with dual graphics chips and a very high price. The video also shows Crysis 2 running in the background which is ironic since the PC port of the just released first person shooter doesn't even run DirectX 11 level graphics (at least not yet).

[Via Engadget]