EVGA GTX690 Review including Quad SLI

Introduction and Technical Specifications

| Source: EVGA Price: ‚£899 Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

Putting two GPUs onto a single card started off as being a bit of a strange idea. After all, the performance of these cards such as the HD3870X2 or GTX295 could never get close to that of two single cards.

However as is always the case with technology, the R&D guys eventually worked out how to get very close indeed. The last generation, the HD6990 or GTX590, were both incredible performers, capable of chewing up nearly every game on the market and spitting out some incredible frame-rates.

Since the release of the GTX680 and the huge benchmark scores that it produced, we were eagerly anticipating getting our hands on the dual-GPU version of the latest nVidia core, and today we finally get a chance to discover if this gets even closer to bridging the gap between a single card with two GPUs, or two cards in SLI.

So pull up a chair, strap yourself in tightly, and let's see what the GTX690 and SLI'd GTX690's have to offer.

Technical Specifications

As you can see, the EVGA GTX690 has got some huge numbers attached to it. 3072 cores means we have two full-fat GTX680 cores on board, and the clock speeds haven't been heavily reduced either. This should lead to some very tasty scores indeed.

Core Specs

3072 CUDA Cores

Base Clock: 915 MHz

Boost Clock: 1019 MHz

Bus: PCI-E 3.0

Quad SLI Ready

Memory Specs

Memory Detail: 4096 MB GDDR5

Memory Bit Width: 512 Bit

Memory Clock: 6008 MHz

Memory Speed: 0.33 ns

Memory Bandwidth: 384.52 GB/s

Key Features

NVIDIA SMX Engine

NVIDIA GPU Boost

NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync

NVIDIA Surround

Supports four concurrent displays; three dual-link DVI connectors, one Mini Displayport 1.2

Microsoft DirectX 11 with Direct Compute 5.0 support

NVIDIA PhysX Technology

NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready

Quad NVIDIA SLI Ready

NVIDIA CUDA Technology

PCI Express 3.0 Support

OpenGL 4.2 Support

OpenCL Support

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