NVIDIA GTX 690 Dual-Core

Surprise, NVIDIA includes a new insanely costly dual-GPU graphics card within the offing, and you will get it already this Thursday, May 3…that is, if you are prepared to pay two times exactly what the company’s charging because of its flagship single-GPU model.

Satisfy the GeForce GTX 690: two GTX 680 GPUs strapped together on one board and promising frame rates even greater compared to absurdly high ones the GTX 680 already provides. The GTX 680 released recently to mostly glowing reviews that announced it “faster, cooler and quieter” than both its predecessor and also the competition.

We do not have benchmarks for that GTX 690 yet - individuals are coming Thursday - but as Anandtech notes, it doubles the GTX 680's stream processors (2 x 1536) and texture models (2 x 128) in addition to memory (2 x 2GB) and memory bus width (2 x 256-bit) while shedding the core clock speed per GPU slightly (from 1006 MHz to 915MHz) together with the boost clock (from 1058 MHz to 1019 MHz). And in which a single GTX 680 melts away to 195W of energy, the GTX 690 can draft to 300W.

NVIDIA is offering the GTX 690 as “exotic,” speaking up its design, with a frame built of trivalent chromium-plated aluminum (for “strength and durability”), housing for that fan made from thixomolded magnesium alloy (for “heat dissipation and vibration dampening”), a ten-phase energy supply having a 10-layer copper pcb (for “lower energy and fewer heat”), more effective cooling (“dual vapor chambers, a nickel-plated finstack and center-mounted axial fan with enhanced fin pitch and air entry angles”) and “low-profile components” to enhance air flow and acoustics.

The organization isn’t mincing words about performance, either: NVIDIA claims the GTX 690 accomplishes “close to double the amount frame rates” from the GTX 680 (NVIDIA was less boastful from the GTX 690's predecessor, the GTX 590, if this released). The GTX 690 can also be stated to become “more energy efficient and quieter” in comparison to some dual GTX 680 setup running in SLI mode. And when you've $2,000 to spare, you are able to drop two GTX 690s to your rig and run all GPUs in quad-SLI mode.

Just like the GTX 680, the advantages for single-monitor players are questionable, but when you’re managing a multi-monitor setup and you have been eyeballing two GTX 680s ($499 an item), it may sound such as the GTX 690 provides substantially more, design-smart, for the similar cost. NVIDIA states to search for limited availability on May 3, and for your to broaden by May 7.