That's what I thought, considering that AMD has better VRAM management. If the GTX 570 performed so well at such huge resolution, the GTX 580 wouldn't had made sense, or any 2GB videocard.
you can't run more than 2 monitors with an nvidia card. He either "forgot" to mention that he has sli or he somehow acquired two 2880x1200 monitors.
You know I find it interesting that we see threads for both nVidia and AMD with troubles. Not once have I seen anyone, except for possibly tongue in cheek, tell the OP it's crappy nVidia drivers AMD's are so much better, even when it's a driver issue. Although, if a thread goes long enough, someone will throw in how they hate AMD because of their drivers even when it's not applicable to the thread.
Both companies have driver issues. It's a fact of life with PC gaming. If you truly want to avoid driver issues, don't game on a PC, buy a console.
NV has had some major driver issues as well in the past, though I would say that generally they are still slightly better/more useful than amd. However, amd has made major inroads in the past few years and has now gotten close enough that I would probably rank it near the very bottom of my items to consider when purchasing a video card. For example, my personal list:
1. General gaming performance at my current and likely future resolution for the life of card
1a. noise/heat/power
2. Gaming performance in my current/likely future specific game purchases for resolutions listed in #1.
3. Current DC performance for seti and possibly others such as folding, milkyway, etc
4. Likely future performance of card in games in general
5. extraneous BS like eyefinity, physx, 3d, etc; you know, things that I don't use or plan to use in the future but could eventually try out
6. very small driver bonus for nvidia
In the past there were times that the drivers could have been the #2 or even #1 deciding factor, but at least for now that's not the case. Even though i typically look at everything, I have only gotten down to #3 twice and never lower than that. In fact, usually one or the other is so much quieter and/or has such a great cooler that I just stop there. My gaming room gets VERY hot in the south texas summer, in fact in winter I typically leave the window open to keep the room temps "normal".