Nvidia GTX 690 = 2 x Nvidia GTX 680!!

[Destiny]

I guess BigK is to never be put into a consumer 600-series GPU, but will be tweaked and saved for the 780.
Damn them. I don't want this dual-GPU shit. No better than SLI when it comes to the end result.

I have a feeling it will be launched in June/July in the GTX 660 or GTX 670... same like they did with the GTX 400 series...

 

[Jodell88]

I want some of what Nvidia is smoking. A thousand dollars for a graphics card?

 

[JBT]

People buy the GTX680 for $500+ as soon as its in stock why not sell em for $1K for two? Some people complain while the rest buy. Prices are driven by supply and demand. There is low supply prices go up, there is high demand, prices go up even more.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

If peopl don't know already, the rumors were the 7990 was to be clocked at 1000 at stock. With that it will tie if not beat this card and probably be priced around a grand price as well

 

[Lonbjerg]

I want some of what Nvidia is smoking. A thousand dollars for a graphics card?

Let me put things in perspective for you:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2222

8800 Ultra

SP's 128

ROP's 24

Coreclock 612MHz

Shader clock 1.5GHz

Memory data rate 2.16GHz

Buswith 384bit

Memory size 768MB

Price $830+

If we then take inflation into account..from 2007 to now...+$830 translates in to +$900..for a single GPU.
You now get 2 GPU's...for a little more.

So what was your point?

That people here have no memory?

 

[ShadowVVL]

I hate that they use half of the exhaust space for a dvi.what dont go out the back blows out the side of the gpu and sucked back in to the gpu.

issue with the price is 3 hd7850s will be faster and cheaper.

 

[3DVagabond]

I hate that they use half of the exhaust space for a dvi.what dont go out the back blows out the side of the gpu and sucked back in to the gpu.

issue with the price is 3 hd7850s will be faster and cheaper.

7850's only have a single crossfire connector. No Tri/Quad-fire.

 

[Lonbjerg]

7850's only have a single crossfire connector. No Tri/Quad-fire.

LOL...pwned by reality

 

[ShadowVVL]

LOL...pwned by reality

oh damn my bad and damn you amd damn yooou.

It would have made a great tri-cf card

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Amd needs to drop pricing of the 7970 to 399.99 and make a killing

That wouldn't make sense unless they're simply not moving the 7900s at their current prices. With a simpler memory interface, less total memory, and a smaller chip, the GK104 parts are going to be cheaper to produce than any Tahiti based cards. While AMD could certainly strike a blow against nVidia by starting a price war, they'd likely hurt themselves worse by doing so.

 

[Lonbjerg]

That wouldn't make sense unless they're simply not moving the 7900s at their current prices. With a simpler memory interface, less total memory, and a smaller chip, the GK104 parts are going to be cheaper to produce than any Tahiti based cards. While AMD could certainly strike a blow against nVidia by starting a price war, they'd likely hurt themselves worse by doing so.

AMD is not equppied for a price war, thier GPU section lost money last quarter...so they hurt themselfes more than NVIDIA would "suffer".

 

[Lepton87]

I was waiting for that card but I expected it to cost no more than 800$. At the current price it's a total ripoff. Suddenly 7990 got that much more attractive.

 

[Jacky60]

Jesus [loving] Christ! What a card :wub:

Still no profanity in the tech forums, guys
-ViRGE

 

[ViRGE]

AMD is not equppied for a price war, thier GPU section lost money last quarter...so they hurt themselfes more than NVIDIA would "suffer".

Eh? AMD's graphics division made money last quarter; $34M of it to be precise.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5764/amd-q112-earnings-report-158b-revenue-590m-net-loss

 

[Jacky60]

You don't have to win in performance against a phantom card that's likely going to sell out May 3rd-7th and then be out of stock for 3-4 months or until TSMC's production picks up. If HD7990 is actually available for sale, it might win by default (assuming it's reasonably quiet). If HD7990 is anything like the dustbuster 6990 was, they can keep it. Generally speaking, most of the dual-GPU cards end up being duds. It's much harder to sell them later and they have worse overclocking potential than 2 standalone GPUs. I think they are more suitable for people with smaller cases where 2x GTX680 aren't feasible or guys wanting to go dual 690s. I was hoping GTX660/670 would be revealed but looks like we'll have to wait a bit.



:thumbsup:

In my experience it's easier to sell them later and they sell for significantly more than the two single GPU cards they're based on while holding their value better. But yes they're noisy and usually a bit more problematic with drivers etc.

 

[Hmoobphajej]

AMD is not equppied for a price war, thier GPU section lost money last quarter...so they hurt themselfes more than NVIDIA would "suffer".

I thought they only lost money because they wrote off the payment they had to make to GF in order to break their contract with them right???

 

[Qbah]

Why would I want to buy this card if two GTX680s cost the same and are faster? :hmm:

 

[-Slacker-]

Let me put things in perspective for you:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2222

8800 Ultra

SP's 128

ROP's 24

Coreclock 612MHz

Shader clock 1.5GHz

Memory data rate 2.16GHz

Buswith 384bit

Memory size 768MB

Price $830+

If we then take inflation into account..from 2007 to now...+$830 translates in to +$900..for a single GPU.
You now get 2 GPU's...for a little more.

So what was your point?

That people here have no memory?

Aw.



Ok then.




What do you think about the hd 7970 launch prices?

 

[Lonbjerg]

Aw.



Ok then.




What do you think about the hd 7970 launch prices?

Don't give a *bleep* about it *shrugs*

 

[KompuKare]

Why would I want to buy this card if two GTX680s cost the same and are faster? :hmm:

+1. Why indeed unless it's somebody trying to run a 300W who only has one x16 slot.

As if the BOM vs retail of the 680 wasn't high enough, the 690 is even worse.

AMD must regret concentrating the die space on so much DP performance on Tahiti and for that matter launching GCN at such low clocks just because Reid promised the stockholders they'd ship 28nm for revenue in 2011. Both 7980 and 7880 clocked at 1200MHz would be a good idea now.

 

[Silverforce11]

I don't know why this is such a surprise, leaks on gtx690 as far back as last year (!!) have dual gk104 on one card as top-end since bigK is AWOL probably til 2013 (Really, trust TSMC to make a 600mm2 die when they struggle with the current stuff half the size??).

The only surprise from this is the huge pricetag, typically dual-gpu cards don't go for double the pricing, often 50-75% increase on the single card only.

ps. Metro is fine if you TURN OFF DoF (useless feature for gameplay; seems to be a hard-on generator for ppl who likes e-peening benchmarks numbers). I was playing that game with 99% of the max graphics quality years ago at 60 fps.

 

[Lonbjerg]

I don't know why this is such a surprise, leaks on gtx690 as far back as last year (!!) have dual gk104 on one card as top-end since bigK is AWOL probably til 2013 (Really, trust TSMC to make a 600mm2 die when they struggle with the current stuff half the size??).

The only surprise from this is the huge pricetag, typically dual-gpu cards don't go for double the pricing, often 50-75% increase on the single card only.

ps. Metro is fine if you TURN OFF DoF (useless feature for gameplay; seems to be a hard-on generator for ppl who likes e-peening benchmarks numbers). I was playing that game with 99% of the max graphics quality years ago at 60 fps.

You cannot figure out that metal is more expensive than plastic?
Gotcha...

 

[blastingcap]

At least we know even $2,000 of GPUs aren't enough to push Metro 2033 at 60 fps.....talk about very poor game engine code optimization!

Nice find.... finally proof.

I've been saying the same thing for a long time. It's just a pig of a game. You can tell that engines like Frostbite 2 actually had thought planned into them as that game utilizes multiple CPU cores well--not something that happens by accident.

Also, in addition to DoF not adding much to 2033 as previously mentioned, tessellation adds nothing to that game either, but eats up tons of GPU resources.

 

[lavaheadache]

SLI is amazing though.

ye__s, s___li is _____ t__h___e bo__m__b.

sorry my quick reply was a slow read but I microstuttered a bit when I wrote it.

 

[Skurge]

LOL at blaming AMD for nvidia's pricing when nvidia has had the most expensive cards of every generation since the AMD buyout of ATI. So this comes as no surprise.