GTX 690 Review

[hostage67]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5795/n...nching-may-3rd

Available May 3rd
$999 MSRP
4gb (2x2gb) memory

So basically no reason to wait for the 690 when you can just get a 680 now and a second one later without really being any more expensive than a 690. This also still leaves value in getting the upgcoming 4gb versions of the 680.

[Urbanfox]

$1K...

WTF.

That's horrible. Double the pricing of the 680?

Availability is going to be a joke.

I'd take two 680's over this any day for the same price.

[Almost Tactf]

@ 1920X1080 I still haven't seen anything making me want to ditch my 480 SLi setup

[Spartacus]

Originally Posted by Almost Tactf

@ 1920X1080 I still haven't seen anything making me want to ditch my 480 SLi setup

ditto, my 580 at 1920x1200 is more than sufficient
I doubt anything will impress me much till 2013+

[Almost Tactf]

Originally Posted by Spartacus

ditto, my 580 at 1920x1200 is more than sufficient
I doubt anything will impress me much till 2013+

Even at that, by then u could prolly get another one cheap

[Spartacus]

Originally Posted by Almost Tactf

Even at that, by then u could prolly get another one cheap

Yep I already have a waterblock for when I get the second one in a year or two (or at least when they're not 400+ dollars still )
Now that they have the Z77 boards that can handle the multiple x16 lanes I could run them full out with one of those not that they exactly saturate a x8 lane anyway,
or I could upgrade cpus and get a 50 core beast when they release that in a couple of years .

[prudhomb]

what would you do with 120fps besides brag about the fact you have 120fps.

its pretty much the same thing as owning a 500k sports car when the speed limit is 55 either way.

[Raghunandan]

Overpriced for sure. Dont need a expensive SLI board to run the GTX690 though. But then if you can blow $1000 on a card, the SLI board is going to be silly change. Mostly meant for the 27+inch/3D surround I guess.

[prudhomb]

this will probably be simply a benchers card

[Spartacus]

Originally Posted by prudhomb

what would you do with 120fps besides brag about the fact you have 120fps.

its pretty much the same thing as owning a 500k sports car when the speed limit is 55 either way.

Chicks dig the long ball

[prudhomb]

I prefer chicks that prefer anal

[Vengeance]

Originally Posted by prudhomb

I prefer chicks that prefer anal

Or both.

[kscott190]

Originally Posted by Urbanfox

$1K...

WTF.

That's horrible. Double the pricing of the 680?

Availability is going to be a joke.

I'd take two 680's over this any day for the same price.

But it's cheaper then 2 680s which is what a DUAL GPU is

[Urbanfox]

Originally Posted by kscott190

But it's cheaper then 2 680s which is what a DUAL GPU is

It's the same. exact. price.

680's are $500. Twice that is $1000.
690 is $1000.

[Rudboy]

Yeah based on that pricing, I can't see any reason whatsoever to go with a GTX690 over dual GTX 680's. I guess unless you have a motherboard that only has one slot, of course anyone buying a GTX 690 would certainly not have a single slot motherboard.

[hostage67]

Main reason I can see for getting the 690 is if you want to run quad SLI but only have two slots, or purely for the looks.

[skrilla316]

It's actually cheaper than almost all the GTX680s atm. The MSRP is $500, but almost anyone that gets them in stock charges between $530 and $600 at major sites/stores. (We'll see if this will translate to the 690). The 690 is also downclocked 91mhz.

Not to mention it's hard to find them in stock unless it's a lesser site that you don't want to risk a $500+ investment on a potentially bad return experience.

2 things I find odd, are the availability almost a month after launch is still dismal and they haven't released a new driver for the 680 since launch (the one they released had no changes for 680).

[hostage67]

Originally Posted by skrilla316

It's actually cheaper than almost all the GTX680s atm. The MSRP is $500, but almost anyone that gets them in stock charges between $530 and $600 at major sites/stores. (We'll see if this will translate to the 690). The 690 is also downclocked 91mhz.

Not to mention it's hard to find them in stock unless it's a lesser site that you don't want to risk a $500+ investment on a potentially bad return experience.

2 things I find odd, are the availability almost a month after launch is still dismal and they haven't released a new driver for the 680 since launch (the one they released had no changes for 680).

I expect they will both suffer from the same production shortage since they are using the same processors. And I expect the value will be the same. You are correct that most 680's are currently above MSRP due to the lack of production, but I expect the same will be true of the 690 as well. So I assume if you see 680's going at 550, instead of 500, you will also see the 690's going at 1100 instead of 1000, purely a guess on my part, but that is what I expect.

[Urbanfox]

Considering 680 production is non-existent, and 690's are binned, this is turning out to be a pretty bad thing for Nvidia.

[MattSharkey]

The taxes on a GTX 690 could buy a graphics card good enough to play the same games (of course at a lower setting)