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ASUS, one of the most popular GPU manufacturer had recently launched the all new dual GPU solution from Nvidia GTX 690 at a massive price of Rs. 71,000. At that price one can build an entire desktop computer with some serious components capable of playing of playing future titles at 1080P easily. But still there is a word called Enthusiasm and here Nvidia is targeting only enthusiasts who want the best of the best. I would really like to advise these enthusiasts to wait for AMD 7990 which will be released some where near July, 2012. After that prices are sure to come down. 71K is really a insane price for a single component if you ask me.

Flipkart, India’s most popular online site is the one who had listed this Dual GPU for sale. Here is the screenshot showing you the price and a Buy Now option.

At approximately Rs. 33,000 one can pick a GTX 680 from Asus and GTX 690 is nothing but two GTX 680 chips on one board. You can SLI two GTX 680 at a price of around Rs. 64,000 (after bargaining) and this will give you more performance than a singly GTX 690. Though the power requirements in case of SLI is on the higher side but it will not be a major concern of you are using a good quality 80+ Gold certified Power Supply with a wattage rating of at least 800 Watt. There is one more advantages in doing SLI. In case if one of the card gets kaput than you have it’s brother for supporting you through the time required for defective card’s RMA but in case of GTX 690 if a problem occurs than you will be left with no option other than to get back to some old graphic card.

Nvidia had recently announced the launch of their kepler based dual graphic card which will be as usually be called as GTX 690. It’s performance and other benchmark data is already available online because of the Nvidia’s Geforce Webcast in Shanghai, China.

Architecture and inside GTX 690

GTX 690 basically consist of two fully blown GK 104 cores.
This is the same core which is featured in GTX 680 also which holds the title of world’s fastest discrete graphic card presently.
Specs include –> 1536 * 2 CUDA cores, 256 CTU’s, 64 ROP units which is basically double of the single GTX 680 GPU.
GTX 690 uses Nvidia’s custom designed PLX switch rather than NF200 bridge which was used in their GTX 590 GPU for linking two on board chips in dual GPU.
NF 200 is limited only to PCIe 2.0 generation whereas PLX switches from Nvidia is compatible with 3rd generation PCIe technology also.
The new GTX 690 also features 256*2 bit wide bus and a bandwidth of 192 GB/s per chip.

Power

Well, low power consumption is one of the key features of Nvidia’s Kepler series and because of this GTX 690 has much lower TDP of 300 watt as compared to GTX 590.
Due to lower power consumption, Nvidia has to down clock the cores of GTX 690 to 915 MHz.
It has two 8 pin power connectors which delivers power of 300 watt and PCIe slot delivers 75 watt also. So this makes 375 watt in total.

External of GTX 690

Here we can see specially designed chromium plates aluminium body for the GPU.
Two vapour chamber on each GPU same as in their previous dual GPU’s
Fan is located at the centre and is made of magnesium alloy for faster heat dissipation.

Ports

GTX 690 have 3 Dual link DVI ports and 1 mini display port which can support in total 4 simultaneous displays.

Pricing

This card is not yet launched to public but when will it be launched is still not fixed.
Indian launch of this GPU is also not confirmed. Irrespective of the fact that one cannot even find other kepler based GPU in local shops here.
GTX 680’s price floating around Rs. 30,000. So companies will price GTX 690 around Rs. 50,000

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