GTX 690

GTX590 · April 1, 2013

Greetings all!

I've had the benefit of testing 2xHD 7950's in crossfire. Performance is where I want it to be, the temps are good (55/70 oc'ed to 1000/1400) a bit lower at stock speeds (50/60), but the total heat generated is WAY too much for me to handle. Room temp went up from 70 to nearly 85, so I am debating getting a single dual card, as I've seen a few GTX 690's new in box off eBay go for 800ish. I am getting a 590 in the mail shortly to test and then resell, but I believe the 690's performance is very close to an HD 7950x2 as per Crysis 3 benchmarks, but do you guys think this is the right move?

Maverik5124 · April 1, 2013

I don't see how this will reduce your heat output. It still has 2 heat generating GPUs... I would get a 680 4gb (maybe 2 of them).

The 4gb will come in really handy if you plan to play crysis 3!

Also remember that the 690 has 4gb in total but it needs to share this memory with 2 gpus. It's 2gb per gpu and in sli (which the 690 is running internally) the memory doesn't add up because every gpu needs to have the same data in it's memory. It's kind of false advertising of the 690.

GTX590 · April 1, 2013

But 1 card is 1 heat source vs 2 cards is 2 heat sources. It runs cool but 3 sources producing over 50*C temps (CPU, 2 GPU's) is too much for my room to handle. 1x GTX 690 is 1 card and 1 heat source is my point.