Sunday, April 29th 2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Launched
NVIDIA today announced the GeForce GTX 690, the world's fastest consumer graphics card -- with a bold industrial design to match. Powered by dual Kepler architecture-based GeForce GPUs, the GTX 690 is meticulously designed -- inside and out -- to deliver the most refined, elegant and smooth PC gaming experience possible.
The surprise announcement was made by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang during his keynote address at the NVIDIA Game Festival in Shanghai, which is being attended by more than 6,000 gamers from across China.
Engineered to reach a new threshold in gaming performance, the GTX 690 also looks the part. Its array of innovative technologies is complemented by sleek materials that contribute to the exotic design of the card, including:
"The GTX 690 is truly a work of art -- gorgeous on the outside with amazing performance on the inside," said Brian Kelleher, senior vice president of GPU engineering at NVIDIA. "Gamers will love playing on multiple screens at high resolutions with all the eye candy turned on. And they'll relish showing their friends how beautiful the cards look inside their systems."
The GTX 690 graphics card is designed using GeForce GPUs based on NVIDIA's 28-nanometer Kepler architecture, following the introduction late last month of the GTX 680.
Availability
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 GPU will be available in limited quantities starting May 3, 2012, with wider availability by May 7, 2012 from NVIDIA's add-in card partners, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit and Zotac. Expected pricing is $999.
The surprise announcement was made by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang during his keynote address at the NVIDIA Game Festival in Shanghai, which is being attended by more than 6,000 gamers from across China.
- An exterior frame made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, providing excellent strength and durability
- A fan housing made from a thixomolded magnesium alloy, which offers excellent heat dissipation and vibration dampening
- High-efficiency power delivery with less resistance, lower power and less heat generated using a 10-phase, heavy-duty power supply with a 10-layer, two-ounce copper printed circuit board
- Efficient cooling using dual vapor chambers, a nickel-plated finstack and center-mounted axial fan with optimized fin pitch and air entry angles
- Low-profile components and ducted baseplate channels for unobstructed airflow, minimizing turbulence and improving acoustic quality
The GTX 690 graphics card is designed using GeForce GPUs based on NVIDIA's 28-nanometer Kepler architecture, following the introduction late last month of the GTX 680.
Availability
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 GPU will be available in limited quantities starting May 3, 2012, with wider availability by May 7, 2012 from NVIDIA's add-in card partners, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit and Zotac. Expected pricing is $999.
111 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Launched
A $999 price would mean a $1200 price (converted) over here.
1->1 conversion for computer goods in Europe is awesome :shadedshu
I have one little question though, is TPU going to review this? I'd really hope so, W1zzard's reviews are the most extensive and cover everything. :toast:
Even for a high end card, this sounds even more high end.
all nvidia reference cards shd have this design
Come on this VGA is wasted on 1080p, it is clearly aimed at higher resolutions and they cripple it from the start :(
I thought AMD Radeon this time round they got gaming and compute but still they are the ones who started with the high prices so, and i never wanted to be exploited, so i think to my self my GTX460 1GB still does me right. ill hold off till the next gen of cards which will be AMD Radeon 8xxx Series or Nvidia Geforce 7xx or ultimately when the prices drop like the current Radeon 6xxx or Geforce 5xx, so till there is a super price drop to acceptable prices i eint in a hurry to change my GPU, ill be changing any other thing on my rig just not the GPU for now, plus i play most of my games on PS3 and my GTX460 is still very nice on my rig,...
If i ever decide to get one of the current gen cards from any of the two camps, then nothing less than for Geforce GTX670 or for Radeon 7870