cipher_nemo

Bruno747Unless your gaming above 1080p, 2gb of vram is going to be more than enough, that being said, anyone running 2560x1440 and above, or multiple monitors will benefit from more than 2gb of vram often, without mods. With mods, the 4gb or vram becomes almost crucial for feeding the gpus fast enough.

I run at 2560x1600, and my 2GB GTX 680 never peaks its memory usage, even on max settings for many of the newer games I play. That's 4 million pixels it pushes just fine.

I'd really only recommend a FTW 4GB model over the 2GB model if you're running triple monitors at HD (1920x1080) resolution or higher each. That's 6+ million pixels.

Hawaiiboi808

Rageypoo

Doesn't it seem strange that this is being released so quick? isn't the 690 spose to be like, what the 680 was suppose to be? From all the hype wont it be extremely overkill on the 7900 series? Thoughts?

I highly doubt the 690, or 695 is being released.  The 690 will probably be down-clocked on the memory and gpu frequency just to make it more stable.  It will probably be a little on the unstable side dealing with 2xGK110 that utilize 4GBs per card, on small memory bus widths.  Worst if it's a 8GB per card deal.  Look at it from another point of view.  680s are basically an overclocked card at factory spec.  It can't be overclocked much further from what I have been reading from other sites.  2way SLI 680s, 2GBs per card, will probably be about the same, or a tad-bit better than a single 690.  2way SLI 690s will probably have scaling issues to the point where you will probably utilize only one of two 690s.  There's also the possiblity of having driver issues.  That's my prediction for the 690s.  More than likely, it will follow the same trend as the 580 3GB vs 2 way SLI 590 situation.   Players could gain more, better performance per buck with 3-way SLI 580 3GBs, and have less herp-derps.

Johnny_Utah

2 x 680s > 1 x 690.

That is all.

Bruno747"most powerful in the universe"

Syan48306I guess I'm not prepared to spend over $1000 dollars on just GPUs that would depreciate to almost half of its value in the span of 12-14 months.

Johnny_UtahUnless you are benching, you are basically wasting your 4th chip.  Quad SLI scales horribly currently(~2-7 percent).  For gaming, the scaling drops off after tri-sli.  I would rather invest 1500 bucks for 3 x 680's than 1500 bucks for 2 x 690's.