GTX-690 Reviews are up.

[3DVagabond]

Reviews are starting.

Anandtech
Guru3D
HardOCP
Hardware Canucks
Hardware Heaven
Hexus.net
Hot Hardware
Legit Reviews
TechPowerUp
Xbit
Computer Base (translated)
Computer Base (Dutch? German?)
Hardware France (Translated)
Hardware.fr (French)
HT4U.net (Translated)
HT4U.net (German)
Benchmark Reviews
Toms Hardware

 

[Jaydip]

Please sum up all the reviews when they are published 3D.

 

[3DVagabond]

Please sum up all the reviews when they are published 3D.

No problem Although I'll likely be asleep. It'll be 2:00AM here.

 

[Soccerman06]

Do you really need a review to tell you its going to be within 90-95% of a sli 680.

 

[Jaydip]

No i don't but i'm just not interested in raw performance for this product,i would like to see the heat,noise and the oc headroom as well.

 

[3DVagabond]

Do you really need a review to tell you its going to be within 90-95% of a sli 680.

I wouldn't be surprised if O/C'd it ends up faster than 680SLI. All they need to do is unlock the voltage. It's a much better built card. The only thing that could hold it back would be the cooler.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

SLI these babies. Lol

 

[Borealis7]

there are many games in which SLI doesnt get more than 50% scaling, i think this card isn't be worth the pricetag of 999$.

EDIT: i take it back. TechPowerUp puts it at 100% the performance of a 680SLI at high resolutions.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_690/28.html

a good card technically, but no actual reason to buy it.

 

[Jaydip]

This card is for people who are not bothered about the pricetag

 

[Upgrade_Itch]

The percentage of gamers that will buy this card has gotta be super low...maybe 0.050%

 

[chimaxi83]

Anandtech
Guru3D
HardOCP

 

[3DVagabond]

Anandtech
Guru3D
HardOCP

Thanks, will add them to the OP.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

That's some binning, I thought they didn't have enough chips?

 

[d3fu5i0n]

The Anandtech link goes to the same Guru3D URL, btw.

 

[railven]

I think I'm in love with that card's stock design...

Kudos nVidia, my only complaint is the price, but since I won't ever be buying one - I guess it's moot haha.

 

[Upgrade_Itch]

Looks like it may be a great clocker, though a bit rough on wallets!

 

[railven]

That's some binning, I thought they didn't have enough chips?

The AT article states "Ultra Rare" so I'd assume they may not have enough chips. Peeps better gobble em up fast.

 

[Silverforce11]

I like its power use, less than gtx680 SLI while running very cool and quiet for a dual GPU card. Shame about the pricing but it really delivers for those with deep-pockets. As a HALO part, it's pricing is justified TBH, just way out of my price-range for the games I play and at 1080p.

 

[tviceman]

Wow look at the techpowerup review. It consumes less power than a gtx480 in almost every single situation. HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[3DVagabond]

The Anandtech link goes to the same Guru3D URL, btw.

Seems to be OK. Maybe you just flinched and clicked the wrong link?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

lol the 480s power draw keeps going on with every new review, perhaps they should retire their sample before it goes super nova.

 

[SlowSpyder]

That's some binning, I thought they didn't have enough chips?

Considering their out of stock at most places, and where you can find them in stock they are priced at or above $600, I'd say there is a shortage.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Kudos nVidia, my only complaint is the price, but since I won't ever be buying one - I guess it's moot haha.

This is what I was thinking.price sucks but truly I'm not even in the market for any card beyond $250. Lol

 

[3DVagabond]

This is what I was thinking.price sucks but truly I'm not even in the market for any card beyond $250. Lol

Same here. Well, a bit more because I'm in NZ.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

You have to wonder how much AMDs performance/noise/power/driver woes play into this card being $1000...

Anand stated:

Unfortunately we’re going to have to put AMD out of the running here; as we’ve seen in games like Crysis and Metro the 7970 in Crossfire has a great deal of potential, but as it stands Crossfire is simply too broken overall to recommend.

In the games where they are getting good scaling, [H] notes that playback isn't nearly as smooth as SLI.