AnandTech - In an unusual move, NVIDIA took the opportunity earlier this week to announce a new 600 series video card before they would be shipping it. Based on a pair of Kepler GK104 GPUs, the GeForce GTX 690 would be NVIDIA’s new flagship dual-GPU video card. And by all metrics it would be a doozy.
Packing a pair of high clocked, fully enabled GK104 GPUs, NVIDIA was targeting GTX 680 SLI performance in a single card, the kind of dual-GPU card we haven’t seen in quite some time. GTX 690 would be a no compromise card – quieter and less power hungry than GTX 680 SLI, as fast as GTX 680 in single-GPU performance, and as fast as GTX 680 SLI in multi-GPU performance. And at $999 it would be the most expensive GeForce card yet.
TechRadar - The Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 has been hailed by the green graphics giant as 'the best graphics card that's ever been made.'
That's quite a claim, but bandying around phrases like 'trivalent chromium plating' and 'injection moulded magnesium alloy' in relation to its design means this expensive ol' graphics card bears serious inspection.
Extremetech: Nvidia’s newest dual-GPU video card, the GeForce GTX 690, came out yesterday. And it’s amazing.
I’m not just throwing that word around. It’s based on the same GK104 GPU at the heart of Nvidia’s current-generation single-GPU leader, the GTX 680, and its performance stops just shy of what you’d get with two of those hooked up in SLI; Nvidia’s claims of this being the fastest video card in the world weren’t exaggerations.
GotGame: ASUS has today begun offering NVIDIA's sexy GTX 690, which is based off the 28nm Kepler architecture.
