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harry clemance

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Is anyone even thinking about getting a gtx 690? As far as I can tell it is twice the price of 2 gtx 680s and is a little bit worse. There are only two reasons I can think of getting this card one is that it runs much cooler than any graphics card I have ever seen (stock I mean, I know water cooled will provide better temps) and it only takes up one PCI slot on the motherboard. So does anyone think that it is a good card to go for or are you all thinking about that massive price tag??? Just to let ii know I am not even thinking about it as I only have a laptop :)
 
I think it is a good card, the price in alright. A bit over priced but fits it for now. I'm just wondering what AMD are going to come up with
 
they better come out with something soon because i don't see a reason not to buy nvidia at the moment, unless your working on a budget.
 
I wouldn't buying video card with Dual-GPU if i were you. Just getting GTX two or three GTX 680 for better SLI mode and fastest graphics.
 
It is not meant for people that can run 680s in SLI. It is meant for people with boards that only have 1 PCIe x16 slot. People overlook this fact all the time talking about this. Heck, I would take 2 of them for my board over 2 680s any day cause no matter how you slice it it is still 4 1536 core cores.
 
not likely. The 680 barely saturates it, and this will not have much more bandwidth due to the internal x16 SLI bridge.
 
fair enough so there still isn't a graphics card that actually needs 3.0 yet then? also why if the 690 is basically just two 680s on one pcb is it slightly worse than 2 680s in sli?
 
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To the OP , many enthusiasts will look at buy it.
It has certain benefits, but I think they should have kept its price around 800-850. I am pretty sure its cost will come down in some time. I like these dual GPU cards as they are future proof. But it is always better to build a rig for 1k rather than buy a GPU for 1k.
 
You want to spend 1000 on a video card? I'd wait for the price to drop down to somewhere in the 800 range. Probably won't be too long. I'd always prefer one good card over 2 less powerful cards, but that's just me.
 
Only way the 7990 could beat the 690 is if they get the price nice and low, say 7-800... It'd be much more appealing (For those in the market for this kind of GPU that is)
 
The 690 should deffinatly be $800 to keep people from buying 2 680s.I would buy 4 690s in sli for my dream setup, it would be awesome.
 
byteninja2 said:
The 690 should deffinatly be $800 to keep people from buying 2 680s.I would buy 4 690s in sli for my dream setup, it would be awesome.
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No, you can not getting 4 GTX 690 into together. It would be Eight-SLI. Current SLI can only working in quad. GTX 690 is a Dual-GPU. If you have two GTX 690, it would be quad SLI.
 
Mr.Moose said:
Only way the 7990 could beat the 690 is if they get the price nice and low, say 7-800... It'd be much more appealing (For those in the market for this kind of GPU that is)
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According to benchmarks, 7970 CF beats the 690 and 680 SLI, So probably 7990 will beat 690, so at last 690 price comes down.
 
Ankur said:
According to benchmarks, 7970 CF beats the 690 and 680 SLI, So probably 7990 will beat 690, so at last 690 price comes down.
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Where have you got that from??? I didn't see the cf, but still the 7970 is the same or slightly worse than the 680 on every bench I have seen so in cf I would say it might perform at par with the 690, as the 690 is slightly worse than the 680 sli. But 7970cf has no chance if beating 680 sli across the board, yes there are some games that AMD ru.s better than nvidia but for the main part the 680 will run better
 
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