Nvidia GTX 690? BAD GPU or just Nvidia don't make drivers for it?

[Tadziunia]

Nvidia GTX 690 very powerful gpu, for long time, there was any gpu which could reach compute power of it, it's basically two GTX 680s in SLI or GTX 770s, in theory two GTX 680 if SLI drivers is good, its as powerful as GTX 980, but in current time, NVIDIA makes drivers only for their greatest 900series... they don't care about their old GPU'S like GTX 480, 590 or 690, 690 Still high end gpu, my friend wanted to take it from ebay, because it's great gpu, if only nvidia would take their shit together and start making best drivers for all their products everyone people won;t upgrade their gpu's everyyear... GTX 690 cost 1000$ in 2012, it's still beast gpu, people who take it for 1080p or 1440p can still keep it, it will run most game at max settings, with great framerate atleast with Antialiasing off. I don't know i hate Nvidia for that... i have GTX 770. But i already thinking about new gpu next year because, Nvidia now doing everything to improve 900series.. next year they will do everything to improve pascal gpu's.

[Guest]

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[REX.exe]

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[connorpiper]

Because it has no vRAM. I don't think they really care. 

[LiamApex]

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ahahahahha Lol

[LiamApex]

its old. runs hot, has no Vram and by the laws of Selfworth people have to have the newewst card even if they do not necesseraliy need it

[Nena Trinity]

I would if I where you consider a upgrade.

[Tadziunia]

its old. runs hot, has no Vram and by the laws of Selfworth people have to have the newewst card even if they do not necesseraliy need it

it has 4gb vram like gtx 980 , if it runs hot it's because reference nvidia cooler, any gpu on reference cooler runs pretty hot, it's not a problem, i would take arctic cooler for 690... overall i hate that NVIDIA just don't care about their customers with old highest end gpu's...

[Humbug]

Ya unfortunately Nvidia Kepler drivers are not good. Combine that with SLI troubles and it's not a pretty picture.

 

Your best bet would be to sell it and look for something newer. If you are at 1080p / 1440p a 970 or R9 390 would be good. They will probably give much smoother frame latency than your 690.

[Guest]

690 isn't a bad GPU its just out of date, a modern day 970 or 980 would beat it; and the reason because of this is because the architecture of chips are changing, becoming more powerful and efficient despite the specs kind of like processors and different **nm chips but still different, and its not that they don't care about the people who have the older GPU's its just that not enough people have the card and its not worth it for them to update it anymore, its like updating a mod for a game that no one uses 

[LiamApex]

it has 4gb vram like gtx 980 , if it runs hot it's because reference nvidia cooler, any gpu on reference cooler runs pretty hot, it's not a problem, i would take arctic cooler for 690... overall i hate that NVIDIA just don't care about their customers with old highest end gpu's...

it has 2gb of usable VRAM 2gb per GPU much diffrent to the 980s 4gb . it runs hot because it is two GPUs on one board and the cooler is inadiquate no because it is reference. if you hate nvidia thats your choice over 80 percent of the market would disagree with you however. If nvidia kept supporting all their cards they would not be able to make The best graphics cards anymore because they would put all their money into OLD Gpus that arent sold anymore

[Tadziunia]

it has 2gb of usable VRAM 2gb per GPU much diffrent to the 980s 4gb . it runs hot because it is two GPUs on one board and the cooler is inadiquate no because it is reference. if you hate nvidia thats your choice over 80 percent of the market would disagree with you however. If nvidia kept supporting all their cards they would not be able to make The best graphics cards anymore because they would put all their money into OLD Gpus that arent sold anymore

what about titan z ? it's basically two titan blacks in one , one titan black has 6gb vram, but titan z dual gpu has 12gb vram, you wanna say that even if people take Titan z they only get 6gb of vram ?

[Humbug]

its not that they don't care about the people who have the older GPU's its just that not enough people have the card and its not worth it for them to update it anymore, its like updating a mod for a game that no one uses 

Well people still use Kepler cards in great numbers. Nvidia is not intentionally screwing them.

It's just a question of limited resources; they have limited time, money and manpower and so they have to ask their driver teams to focus on the cards which they are currently selling (i.e. maxwell architecture). Those are the cards which people are still aggressively benchmarking and comparing to AMD online.

[Humbug]

what about titan z ? it's basically two titan blacks in one , one titan black has 6gb vram, but titan z dual gpu has 12gb vram, you wanna say that even if people take Titan z they only get 6gb of vram ?

yes

[LiamApex]

what about titan z ? it's basically two titan blacks in one , one titan black has 6gb vram, but titan z dual gpu has 12gb vram, you wanna say that even if people take Titan z they only get 6gb of vram ?

exactly right they only get half the amount with a dual GPU card the the titan z has 12gb but only 6 usable. its the same as SLI you only get 1 gpu worth of vram. hopfully DX 12 will change that 

[Tadziunia]

yes

as i heard dx12 will allow to combine video memory, if that's true, people who still have dual gpu's will have full access to memory

[Guest]

Well people still use Kepler cards in great numbers. Nvidia is not intentionally screwing them.

It's just a question of limited resources; they have limited time, money and manpower and so they have to ask their driver teams to focus on the cards which they are currently selling (i.e. maxwell architecture).

Yeah thats sort of what I was getting at, I mean perhaps we should thank them for them wanting us to have the latest and the greatest tech, you know? despite the cost, I'll hate to switch over to a new series when that time comes when I'll have to give up my beloved 980Ti Hall of Fame; However they could open jobs up, as it would help with decreasing the unemployment rate; but thats just my opinion, just like how I'd think Trump would make a better president then Clinton would and all the other idiots in DC

[Humbug]

as i heard dx12 will allow to combine video memory, if that's true, people who still have dual gpu's will have full access to memory

Correct.

 

However it's upto game developers to specifically include that feature in the game. It doesn't happen automatically.

[ItsAFeature]

I had SLI 770s which is more powerful than a 690 and I basically gave up on them. Great cards but I ran into limited VRAM issues and with SLI support not always being the best, I decided to go with one more powerful GPU.

 

The 690 is good, but it's old now.

[Tadziunia]

I had SLI 770s which is more powerful than a 690 and I basically gave up on them. Great cards but I ran into limited VRAM issues and with SLI support not always being the best, I decided to go with one more powerful GPU.

 

The 690 is good, but it's old now.

probably sli 770s 4gb versions would last longer, am agree with you, i have gtx 770 2gb from asus, it's great gpu runs most games at max settings with high FPS, but there are some games which run with shutter because of vram ram limit..

[lovingGamer]

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Too much alcohol? bro?

[Guest]

Too much alcohol? bro?

 

I'm 14, I can't have alcohol. It's illegal.

[lovingGamer]

I'm 14, I can't have alcohol. It's illegal.

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[ItsAFeature]

I'm 14, I can't have alcohol. It's illegal.

 

Only if you get caught

 

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