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    News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    High-end Kepler with high-end price-tag arrives.
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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    damn that is one sexy looking graphics card

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Well considering the 680 is meant to be $499 ( £368 incl tax) and yet is $699 (£430) at retail i can only assume that the gtx690 will actually release at $1400 (£860) as the figures you gave it shows that the retail price for america will actually be double a 680 so its most likely that it will be double here as well... bloody expensive!.

    They have gone overboard with the design, throwing money out the window and whilst it does look nice that would NEVER be the deciding factor for me... the core clock is already taking a hit and it doesnt seem THAT impressive to me, i always hate dual gpu boards as its got the same issue as multicard setups but just takes up less space and slightly less power, however anyone who can afford a card this expensive im sure can afford the extra £20 to have a motherboard and case that has enough expansion slots for multicard setups and the extra 50W .

    I hope they reduce that price on day one as its silly, it should be less than 2x gtx680 as at the end of the day youve saved them using 2x pcbs and 2 coolers, it should be about 175% of the original single 680 cost not 200% . Ill be interested in seeing how well AMDs 7990 fairs against this as im hopeful it will destroy this card, and they will actually have stock!.


    I do love how Nvidias article goes on saying that its such a beast of a card that it needs to be run on a triple monitor setup to really use it, so they show you the benchmarks of a 1920x1080p setup... brilliant.
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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    oooooooo...perdy. I sided with the red team when I bought my new card, well I can always change my mind when I 2011 ungrades in place...

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    It looks awesome for a card made by nvidia, amd now have to pull of an even better design with the 6990 but i doubt they are

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Nice looking card for a reference design, but way to expensive considering you can run most things out now on much cheaper cards with nice fps.

    Cards like this will not be usful till next gen consoles push the graphics bar up for all developers.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Quote Originally Posted by Hicks12 View Post
    Well considering the 680 is meant to be $499 ( £368 incl tax) and yet is $699 (£430) at retail i can only assume that the gtx690 will actually release at $1400 (£860) as the figures you gave it shows that the retail price for america will actually be double a 680 so its most likely that it will be double here as well... bloody expensive!.

    They have gone overboard with the design, throwing money out the window and whilst it does look nice that would NEVER be the deciding factor for me... the core clock is already taking a hit and it doesnt seem THAT impressive to me, i always hate dual gpu boards as its got the same issue as multicard setups but just takes up less space and slightly less power, however anyone who can afford a card this expensive im sure can afford the extra £20 to have a motherboard and case that has enough expansion slots for multicard setups and the extra 50W .

    I hope they reduce that price on day one as its silly, it should be less than 2x gtx680 as at the end of the day youve saved them using 2x pcbs and 2 coolers, it should be about 175% of the original single 680 cost not 200% . Ill be interested in seeing how well AMDs 7990 fairs against this as im hopeful it will destroy this card, and they will actually have stock!.


    I do love how Nvidias article goes on saying that its such a beast of a card that it needs to be run on a triple monitor setup to really use it, so they show you the benchmarks of a 1920x1080p setup... brilliant.
    You pay more because of the extra effort gone into engineering and the lower quantity produced means higher production costs.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Look at the first image - GTX 690 gets 80FPS
    The second image shows it getting 70FPS at the same settings (BF3)?

    The FPS for the same game is different for the same card in those images at the same settings? Either they are lying about one or changing the CPU to try and make it look the most favourable in each case? Not sure how this would work though...

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Quote Originally Posted by Badbonji View Post
    Look at the first image - GTX 690 gets 80FPS
    The second image shows it getting 70FPS at the same settings (BF3)?

    The FPS for the same game is different for the same card in those images at the same settings? Either they are lying about one or changing the CPU to try and make it look the most favourable in each case? Not sure how this would work though...
    Well spotted! You're probably right, one could be an average etc.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

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    Likewise, one of our concerns for the 680 was the limited memory bandwidth, which we felt acted as a bottleneck under certain loads. Whilst a dual-GPU configuration doesn't truly offer twice the effective bandwidth, we suspect this will go some way to aiding performance.
    Sorry Hexus, you've lost me. The bandwidth of the 690 is exactly the same as the 680. If you were concerned about it being a bottleneck for the 680, why aren't you concerned for the 690 which is likely to be running at higher effective resolutions and would have even more need for bandwidth?

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    looks really nice, performance figures are undoubtedly awesome but I agree with everyone else here - why would you pay £800+ for a GPU? it's just silly!

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Loads of people do. There are loads of people on loads of forums who have already bought two to four 4 GTX680s, those kind of extreme users will buy anything Nvidia produce at almost any price. Nvidia know this.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Fabulous looking card but I don't understand the performance graphs. In the 680 vs 690 graph Metro 2033 is doing approx 64 FPS on the 690, but on the SLI graph it only achieves about 30 FPS on the 690, which is less than the approx 35 FPS shown for the slower 680.

    Shome mishtake?

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    read on ocuk it`ll be around £800 - and you thought AMD took the piss with pricing

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Sorry Hexus, you've lost me. The bandwidth of the 690 is exactly the same as the 680. If you were concerned about it being a bottleneck for the 680, why aren't you concerned for the 690 which is likely to be running at higher effective resolutions and would have even more need for bandwidth?
    Whilst under a bog standard scenario you send the same data to each chip, there are some minor differences and alternative ways of loading up your two cores. What titles/drivers could use this to their advantage we don't know yet.

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    Re: News - NVIDIA launches dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690

    My max res is 1680 x 1050, so I wouldn't get the benefit from this monster. Plus I couldn't afford such a thing. This or a deposit for a new car? lol

    My GTX 460 is doing absolutely fine
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