http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/article-keynote/
 

 
 
http://videocardz.com/324...unches-geforce-gtx-690
NVIDIA has just officially announced their newest graphics card from GeForce 600 Series. The GeForce GTX 690 is dual-gpu card based on 28nm Kepler GK104 core and is now considered the fastest graphics card available on the market. Prepare your motherboard — because it’s big, prepare your power supply — because it’s power hungry, prepare your wallet — because it’s not cheap. 
If you ever wondered how it is to have two GTX 680 cards connected in SLI mode, but your motherboard didn’t have enough space, or your power supply couldn’t feed 400 Watts of power, then NVIDIA has just came up with a new solution for you. The GeForce GTX 690 will provide performance of two GTX 680s, will consume as low as 300W, will only take two slots and finally — it will cost you $999. Some may say, it’s insane to buy such an expensive card, but believe me, it will be capable of running any game with top quality on multiple monitors for quite some time.
So what is GeForce GTX 690? NVIDIA has packed it up with two GK104 GPUs on one board. It requires two 8-pin power connectors and will consume around 300 Watts (that’s more than your first rigs..). It will therefore provide great overall performance.
GeForce GTX 690 cooler is made of cast aluminum with trivalent chromium plating. The central fan housing is created from injection molded magnesium alloy keeping it from vibrations. Fan will have 3000 RPM itself, but NVIDIA claims it won’t be noisy at all. They invented new cooling technology called dual-water chambers. Card was built on twelve-layer PCB.
Card has imprinted GeForce GTX 690 signature, and when it is in use it has a LED GeForce GTX signature lightning up. NVIDIA has also released new technology called NVIDIA Experience, which will officially be announced on June 6h. It is cloud based PC configurations optimization trough sophisticated data centers. Idea is quite simple, GeForce cards will be connected to some external server, which will provide the best available settings for your computer. It will be optimized for best performance by controlling texture quality, tessellation, anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing. Also it will be a platform to keep your components up to date.



 
 

 

 

I don't see AMD pulling anything out anytime soon to even come near Nvidia's Flagship. Doing dual chips doesn't really count as being better. Watch EVGA do their 2Win dual chip ones lol.. AMD be outta luck again.

Prolly be a 3-4gb GTX660 2Win if they do one.  GTX690 will most likely be two downclocked GTX680 spec GPUs.  I still see about 4 months + until then though.

According to this site the 7990 is coming out in just a couple days, 4/17 for $850!!   Hmm what to do. Wait for 680 4gb or 7990 3gb? Im stepping up my displays to 7680x1440 so my 680SLI 2gb wont do. Trying to sell the 680s now so i can get the most for them while they are OOS everywhere. But i can wait too long without GPUs.
 
Edit: the forum blocked my link. Guess you will have to copy paste
itsjhworld.com/technology/computers/graphics-card/amd-radeon-hd-7990-confirmed-specs

Also Radeon fan page posted release on 4/17 on Its official FACEBOOK. Cruel joke if it is.
 
^from what i read. didnt actually see the FB post

Sweet!

I think the GTX690 will be$799 again beating the 7990 on price and performance!

We'll probably see the 7990 at the end of April or beginning of May with the GTX 690 mid May.

To be honest, I actually want nvidia to beat AMD. If they do, AMD's GPU price will drop and I might buy an AMD product for a birthday gift since it's cheaper.

Syan48306

They already dropped the price of the 7970 by $80 down to $470

EDIT: Pretty much, it means you can debate if you want a superclocked GTX 680 vs a 7970 Lightning. Just last week it was $600. Now its $520.
http://www.newegg.com/Pro...mp;Tpk=7970%20lightnig

Tough choice. I bet the lightning will do much better if you're going water. 

 
Guess that means that AMD finally admitted that they couldn't compete with the 680 at the price tag that it was at, and had to reprice it according to how it performs against the 680.  Typical maneuver.  Now we'll see if that has a domino effect on the 680 prices and quantity down the road.

Aren't Dual GPUs suppose to be released in the end of the year which it will close the gap between the next generation HD8000/GTX700?
 
I think this is a GTX 670.
 
Read the new beta driver info: 301.25
Support GTX 670

Well guys, it looks like we might actually get an April PAPER release of the GTX 690. If it really is $699, that's only $150 more for a second GTX 680, not bad at all.
 
EDIT: By "4GB of GDDR5" it means 2GB per core right for the 690 right? How big is the performance difference from 4GBs to a single core GTX 680 just in terms of ram?

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.

Syan48306 I run 2560x1440 and it eats up anywhere from 1.8-2 GB sometimes. 

Since its 2GB per core, but it's got 2 cores and 4GB total, is that going to be better than 2GB on the 680 or will it take the same kind of hit when you get up in into the 5k x 2k range.

 
Which games? The textures a game uses and how many of them loaded at once will have an impact on video memory usage as well as gaming resolution.
 
As for a 4GB dual-GPU card, it's still only 2GB per GPU. Each GPU needs its own working copy of the video memory, which is duplicated. So it's still 2GB total video memory. The 4GB for a dual-GPU card is just a marketing ploy.

cipher_nemo


Which games? The textures a game uses and how many of them loaded at once will have an impact on video memory usage as well as gaming resolution.

 
FFXIV and Skyrim can eat up 1.8+ GB of vram easy between its bad coding and extra mods at 2560x1440.