The Almighty GTX 690 - Is 2012's Most Expensive Graphics Card Still Worth Buying?

[@toastymuffin4153]

GTX 690 will be remembered as the start of Nvidia's current cooler design language

[@vadim.ka96]

Wasnt Titan first that adopted this cooler design?

[@TheForeverStick]

The Titan was introduced with the 700 series, it came later than the 690

[@kyles8524]

not anymore lol, they are stopping there oem coolers from now on

[@toastymuffin4153]

@@kyles8524 Meanwhile you can still purchase reference models of the current SUPER cards straight from Nvidia..........

[@kyles8524]

@@toastymuffin4153 yeah thats the last generation they are making, its all AIB models after them

[@marvelgoh5648]

Imagine in 2027 he uploaded "Is RTX 2080 still worth buying in 2027?"

[@mell7524]

RTX 2080 Ti

[@marmite2956]

Cuz I think 4k60 is getting old. We haven't improved in the last 3 years as much as we used to.

[@superlumbagoman9370]

@@marmite2956 that's probably because prices for 2K and 4k monitors are insane. Paying $400 for a 22 inch 2K monitor is something many people can't afford.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

@@superlumbagoman9370 about to blow your mind but 2k is not the resolution you think it is. 2k is essentially 1080p QHD is - 1440p

[@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529]

@@superlumbagoman9370 my 32 inch 1440p 85 hz high-color-amount monitor was 200, you should look harder for better products lol

[@ShoryYTP]

2012: 1000$ for 2 top-end GPUs 2019: 1200$ for the top-end GPU that also is literally the only new GPU more powerful than the 2 years old previous series

[@aa-gz6kw]

Thanks to inflation its going to keep going up in prices.

[@diablorojo3887]

@@aa-gz6kw greedy companies =/= inflation

[@therealpizzagirl]

It's because of that Nvidia greed. Buy AMD!

[@jm8080ful]

It's not greed, business is always about making money. The real culprit here is the lack of real competition. AMD is so far behind and only just picking up recently. Let's just hope AMD continue to clean up their act to keep NVidia in check.

[@ultrademigod]

ShorY Except the 680 wasn't the top end, the HD 7970 was. Sticking two 680s together made it faster, but it also made it 67% more expensive, while giving around 25% more performance.

[@jakeparkinson7695]

hd 5450 crossfire. Budget builds did it, now its your turn.

[@StaelTek]

Gamers Nexus did it too i think.

[@DeathClawDC]

I still have mine

[@AeroFix94]

why? those cards sucks xD

[@nischalofchrist]

Had 5450 for 6 years, got a job and upgraded to RTX 2060. 5450 gives me nightmares. It sometimes even failed to play 4k videos smoothly. Yet i was able to play so many games at 480p ultra low settings, below 30 fps for all those years.

[@computerpastiche]

i had a 5450 when I was 12, and when i turned 13 i saved enough money so I could get a 6770, happiest day of my childhood

[@v1dus]

6900k-->1000 dollars Gtx 690-->1000 dolars Perfectly balanced

[@rokturi]

As all things should be.

[@oioioitm7689]

Makes sences

[@S7OVN]

6900k - $690 Gtx 690 - $69

[@oioioitm7689]

@@S7OVN That's smart

[@Acolytes_]

Haggaga Vidus kje si! Sm u tvojem serverju btw

[@karakurikonnect9572]

It is actually crazy how well optimised Battlefield games are.

[@SovietRipper]

DICE is the only studio that knows how to use Frostbite, other games on that engine don't run well

[@realHenryBayman]

Except that it runs like horse shit at the moment outside of single player. Lots of multiplayer stutters & issues.

[@realHenryBayman]

@@iceangelx22 i have a ryzen 2600 on 4.05ghz with my memory slightly OC'd & that's at 60-90% on battlefield, but i still get massive drops when I spawn. Or when I ADS in aircraft.

[@karakurikonnect9572]

@@realHenryBayman I too have a r5 2600 and it runs perfectly fine. What are your ram speeds ?

[@BorkBorkDoggo]

@@iceangelx22 Battlefield 1 just likes lots of cores. It runs surprisingly well keeping around 75 fps max settings in multiplayer on my FX 8320 Gtx 690 setup. I hope more games start to utilize more cores because those that do run great on my CPU

[@RealRaynedance]

Worth noting that 2GB of VRAM per GPU means it still has an effective 2GB of VRAM. The VRAM doesn't stack.

[@Bogdan00]

nvlink is capable of stacking

[@RealRaynedance]

@@Bogdan00 Sure. But standard SLI (which is what this card had to use) can't.

[@Bogdan00]

@@RealRaynedance then download some VRAM

[@RealRaynedance]

@@Bogdan00 Don't I have to delete system32 to make room for it though?

[@Bogdan00]

@@RealRaynedance download some HDDs

[@exaltedb]

I’m amazed that BF5 has nearly 100% scaling with SLI enabled (at least with the 690), didn’t expect that

[@cv507]

thats when softs is done extensivelie with hw architecture? in mind ^^ but those soft game göds ^ ^

[@gabrieliuskacinskas6874]

I was expecting to see seagul My prayers have been heard

[@rehanaziz8499]

Dave the seagull !! Remember the name

[@Rattonikus]

Do, you mean heard? Because herd definition is a large group of animals, lol.

[@namnnamn1911]

U did seegul ;) lol

[@TechnoYacy]

Ah yay

[@gabrieliuskacinskas6874]

@@Rattonikus thanks for correction

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

I remember drooling over this back in 2012 when I was meticulously researching all the parts for my first ever build. I opted for a 660 ti, but I remember thinking back on how much of an invincible beast the 690 was.

[@erenkruger5760]

You dodged a bullet by not buying it since SLI/Crossfire is obselete now

[@zachsteiner]

YESSSS an upload from one of my absolute favorite KZbinrs! Your content is always so interesting. Appreciate the videos! Wish I knew you IRL, you'd be fun to chill and game with. Cheers!

[@MohammadBas399]

YESSSSSSSSSSS

[@Ferrari255GTO]

@@MohammadBas399 wait, if you are a fat nugget, do you have a nugget cave? LOL

[@MohammadBas399]

@@Ferrari255GTO I have a nugget breeding dungeon

[@DandelionYudeul]

Choose the best card for each year from 2005 to 2019 and test them only with the games that released that year

[@seiori]

Linus just did pretty much this with his 10 years of pc gaming part 1 and 2. Where he builds a system using all the best components in that year.

[@VladimirJovanov]

B o r i n g

[@NaschAzure]

@@VladimirJovanov why are you here then? Yeesh

[@VladimirJovanov]

@@NaschAzure of course best card for each year is going to function flawlessly with the games released that year. Why would someone watch that???

[@Kayne-tz7nq]

VladimirJovanov99 it’s probably to see the price to performance ratio. Because a GTX680 might get 60fps in the games released that year, but the GTX780 might get 50fps in the games released that year.

[@OcihEvE]

2012: nVidia: SLI is the future of Gaming! Gimme Monies! 2019: nVidia: RTX is the future of Gaming! Gimme Monies! Wonder what snake oil we will get in 2026

[@rokturi]

SEX is the future of gamers! Buy our condoms!

[@ivanlagrossemoule]

Don't forget tessellation in 2009, with the half-assed 480 GTX that could run up to 100°C but "it's totally going to be future-proof because it has tessellation". Tessellation is still a thing but the card was outdated before it became relevant.

[@janisir4529]

RTX will stay around. It's pretty easy to add to games, and it's pretty.

[@janisir4529]

@@ivanlagrossemoule People also scoffed at gpu shaders... And like literally every single new technology.

[@menpee]

@@janisir4529 It's pretty easy to add to games yet literally nobody does that.

[@llamashockz]

its really weird seeing farcry and forgetting theres a new one. I feel like the series became kinda irrelevant after 4 and 4 itself wasnt that great after 3 at least for me.

[@haputmacatiag9813]

far cry 4 20 minutes later after pagan ming finished speaking... the end

[@herroberbesserwisser7331]

Its hard to make a good game if your previos games were extremely succesful. People kinda expect amazing games from you. Far cry new dawn is an amazing game which looks great. But you expected more. And then you've got indie games and you expected nothing. But you still liked it. Far cry 4 wasn't great but this indie title was.

[@jackjude]

@@herroberbesserwisser7331 Far cry new dawn is the best game since 2. 10 mins of Vaas bizarrely made many people think a murder/hunting/adventure open-world sandbox is about villains and the story. Anybody who think's its "SJW" is devoid of a sense of humour

[@ZeeshanRFQ]

Far cry 3 was hands down the best game in franchise that I remember playing. 4 felt like a dlc + update or 3. And so on

[@jackjude]

@@ZeeshanRFQ all subsequent editions improved gameplay, gunplay, the environment and the crazy stuff you can do in it - which is what's the series is about really. I personally don't play these games for the story, but they're similar enough, that if you value that aspect I see why folks may chose FC3 as the better experience.

[@Zetaretiiculi]

I still remember when it came out and cost like 1000€. Incredible how fast tech loses it's value.

[@mememaster8368]

Well i think its the fact that it had 2 gpus. If gtx 690 only had 1 gpu it wouldve aged a lot better

[@therealMrPinky123]

I wanted this card so bad back in the day. I still want it.

[@kagander8619]

Mr. Liam same

[@kadennedak]

Mr. Liam I just got 2 for $120

[@ramade9040]

I got it too. For a good 50 euro

[@skullaxel]

Kagan Der I have one u wanna buy it?

[@korana6308]

And I wanted 8800 ultra so bad back in the day too. Remember like it was yesterday.

[@TampaGigWorker]

I remember my 7900 GTS and Intel Core2 Duo e4300(1.8ghz) back in 2009. Playing BF2 and BlackHawk Down in the more simple days of gaming lol.. Then I bought the 8800GTX along with the Core 2 Quad q6600(2.4ghz) to play COD4mw.

[@justsomegamer2285]

i still got somewhere in basement my old pc also from 2008, 9600 GSO 512mb with intel pentium dual core 5200 2x 2.5ghz, :D

[@arrtea]

i wanted to see GTA 4 on this card for some reason :/

[@MsMRkv]

same

[@Yerinjibbang]

yea surprised he didn't include it in

[@techalex1992]

because this card could not even start the gta 4. LOL

[@korana6308]

And he called GTA: SA " Like the best game ever" I felt a little bit betrayed to be honest. Don't get me wrong GTA:SA is second best GTA title of all time. GTA 4 is Number 1.

[@FrietjeOorlog]

I never tried GTA 4. GTA 5 will run just fine on a 690 even at 1440p/1600p.

[@CaptainsWorkspace]

I have two GTX 690 engineering samples that shows the diffrent approaches comming to the final heatsink design. Very happy it ended up as it did!

[@b.henriques9871]

SEAGUL. When is the next subscriber setup review?

[@b.henriques9871]

@@iceangelx22 no u

[@b.henriques9871]

@@iceangelx22 i didn't actually. Your mom gay

[@Kayne-tz7nq]

Amy Purrington not going to woooosh you.......

[@DanielCardei]

ohh god Crossfire games on DUAL SLI card. what is next? SLI games on Crossfire Dual HD cards?

[@ApexierGS]

Yaaaaaasssssss!

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

0:19 Anyone notice the "Do not use toilet while the train is standing in the station" sign? Reminds me of the pooping HSTs. They poop onto tracks directly.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Please make a video using the GTX 690 on a Batman game and dedicate one gpu for PhysXs.

[@kinslayermds]

Ooh or dig up that fps that was bundled with the Aegia cards that Nvidia patched to work with SLI.

[@kyles8524]

Ive done the same comparison with my old gtx 580's in in SLI running physx using borderlands 2 physx and batman's physx and got literally identical performance having one run physx and the other running the game, then I just put a single card to do both physx and rendering. there was 1 fps difference.Physx takes almost no compute power from the card when using it for a game.

[@kyles8524]

@@kinslayermds Aegia cards dont work anymore and if they did they are to weak to run todays physx...in the like 5 games that even support it.Ive ran a geforce 8400gs which is way stronger than that aegia card for dedicated physx along side my gtx 970 and the 8400gs dropped my frames by almost 20 when physx simulations started happening in a game cause that card is way to weak to run physx on high settings.Physx might come back around cause nvidia just open sourced the code so if AMD wanted it on there cards they have the option to use it....which they wont waste time doing considering the overwhelming lack of support for it, and considering games have much better physics engines in them

[@Ryio5]

The 690 has always been my favorite GPU design. It's just stunning. If the price drops more I might consider buying one to collect it; that would be a first for me.

[@kire929]

R9 295X2 is better looking though.

[@deputybluevein93]

Just got one from EBay near enough mint condition. For a mere 78 British pounds, I couldn't resist. Bargain central with original box, 8 pins and 6 pins and disc

[@jeff-hd9og]

I have a msi gtx 1080 ti duke 😎😎😎

[@crylune]

Too bad the design is functionally garbage.

[@shodan6401]

Just saw this (new to your excellent and entertaining channel). My entire rig is from this era. At one time it had three 690s in it in triple SLI in the ridiculously massive Obsidian 800D case and a 3930K. The nVidia 20 series never impressed me so I held out for the 30 series, never suspecting that bots would be snatching up all of the stock for bitcoin mining, and I will never support an 80% markup for scalpers. So now I'm running just one of the original 690s with no end in sight. I've now gone from hero to zero.... But so far I haven't caught Covid. So there's that.

[@shodan6401]

@StayingFake. Nah, those cards are hard to kill. Sold the other two when I needed some scratch. Now none of the new games even support SLI, so I'm down to using a single of the two 680s onboard while I keep hoping for either a decent price on a good used card or for the 3000s to be restocked...

[@LeonardoFlor69]

Did you try using one of the gpus for gaming and the other as a dedicated physx card? It may improve performance on certain games

[@danman9847]

What games even use it, from what i heard it never caught on.

[@bloodsupremking]

@@danman9847 Actually there where quiet few games that used it Batman Arkham series being one of the more popular games using it. But indeed it wasn't popular enough to warrant buying a full card just for PhsyX.

[@AchiragChiragg]

@@danman9847 most of the games nowadays use it. It's just not advertised as it once used to be.

[@danman9847]

From what ive heard from..... yt they don't use it because the physics are all in the game engines they use.

[@danman9847]

@@bloodsupremking Wouldn't even call those games after what they did with the pc ports.

[@majkCZplay]

I love this channel so much because there's going much effort into this videos and this guy's studio is garden with some stones and tulip table cloth and a seagul as a director. No need for super expensive studios. Keep up great work in HD.

[@Minitomate]

GTX 690: I'm the most expensive graphics card for consumers. RTX 2080 Ti: *_Hold my architecture..._*

[@plyplay3988]

you have to delete the space between the first underscore and the H to get a recursive font

[@Minitomate]

@@plyplay3988 Thanks, I fix it :D

[@kire929]

GTX 690 was an enthusiast tier card though. RTX 2080 Ti isn't, RTX 2080 is just the higher end. The Turing enthusiast card would be the Titan V or the Titan RTX.

[@stardustsouls6869]

i hate comments like these so much

[@markkoetsier6475]

Wow, it's like graphics cards get obsolete.

[@RetroTinkerer]

Very nice that you dedicated a good amount of your video to talk about the games that can take advantage of SLI instead of just headbanging on and on in the latest titles that won't work at all (we also want to know about those, but we just assume that most modern titles will not work nicely on SLI/Crossfire)

[@dylan8736]

Current laptop has AMD A4 APU Have to lower resolution and apply tweaks from lowspecgamer to run 60fps

[@framelessly]

Yeah I have a laptop with those specs, pretty bad tbh. However I overclocked my screen to 90 hz lol

[@hogrideeeeer]

I used to have a8 laptop i know how u feel

[@youtubeshadowbannedme]

I had AMD A10 9600P laptop with R5 OEM 512MB and 12GB DDR4 2133MHZ before. Now I got Core i5 9300H and GTX 1050M 3GB and 8GB DDR4 2667MHZ (soon 16GB dual channel).

[@matthiasfreaked]

600 was the only series that had a 90 version. Nice

[@0rogontorogon]

There also was a gtx 590

[@sindyan9528]

@@0rogontorogon r/wooosh

[@BigBad21]

ツSindyan how?

[@its.arjun.s]

Rtx 3090?

[@sindyan9528]

@@BigBad21 r/wooosh. This was 7 months ago

[@Pepechan4561]

Ten minutes to appreciate this old beast, thank you father HD

[@Reknilador]

Yeeess so happy you made this, used to have a 660 for a long time so keppler is always dear to me :)

[@dovesr0478]

Back when the 980 was brand new I was like "Why doesn't everyone just buy a 690" and then I looked into it and was like OHHHHH

[@jessicabruno2820]

As the RX570 is exactly the same price at the moment I would love to see a comparison video between the two! Love the vid as always!

[@Scorpion-md8hb]

The 570 would win easily

[@AMT99100]

The 570 won’t have any sli issues or artifacts like the 690.

[@jessicabruno2820]

AMT99100 clearly but it would still be an interesting video IMO

[@blazedpigeon8713]

Everyone: man this graphics still can be used. Me: gtx 690..... nice

[@masonthedunce3711]

nice

[@campkira]

well if you paid 1000 buck for it you want it to perform 7 years later..

[@GetOverHereMK]

Really good video. You shouldn't write yourself off for being "biased" as that word is often used too often to discredit fresh or alternative perspectives that are relevant to the matter at hand. If anything, I think you've been very fair in your assessment of the card. While it's clear that you like the card very much, you fully acknowledge that its relevance today is limited due to today's lack of dual GPU support in AAA games compared to 2012.

[@mapesdhs597]

I remember when the 690 came out being surprised that it only had 2GB VRAM. 4GB would perhaps have given it a longer life to some extent. Crysis with no AA? What's the point? ;)

[@ravipeiris4388]

Love your video ideas and subsequent testing. You are very innovative.

[@vitaobatera]

I still think every game should support SLi and CrossFire ... it's as fundamental as being able to change resolution. It's how youtubers and streamers will show your game. If a single 2080 Ti can't handle 4K60 for Ray Tracing, let us put a second one, like Quake 2 RTX does... It should be OUR decision, not theirs. Besides that, at high frame rates, dual GPUs suffer a lot from micro stutter... but it's reduced a LOOOOT when at higher resolutions instead.

[@Pharium]

Yeah but people who buy a 5 grand system like 2 2080tis are a very small percentage of gamers

[@Vapefly0815]

Just no. Multi-GPU solutions never worked properly. Yes, there were a few games that worked great but even in its prime the games that didn't support SLI outnumbered the games that did. And out of those that did, many didn't do it properly. Either various issues popped up or the scaling was barely there and you'd be lucky to see 30% scaling. Consumers very quickly figured out that SLI was a crapshoot. I'd rather have the developers and GPU manufacturers put that effort into optimisation.

[@OfficialRaaja]

Not gonna lie I saw some of your videos with your facecam in it and well... You remind me of Billy from the 1st Few Chapters Of the BF5 Campaign!

[@OfficialRaaja]

@Wilbert TheDude no have you not played BattleField 5? Like in the campaign there's a convict who was released only for the reason to be in the British army and his name is billy so also I have played BF1 and I'm not talking about that

[@WunderOW]

I mean, for a card that's only 80-90 bucks it's definitely holding up and I'd rather have that than playing on a console

[@perrylee8998]

Yes

[@TheRealSkillman]

Had this card back in the day. Still have it in my secondary rig. Really shocking how well this card can run some games.

[@hariszaheer1212]

Witcher 3 is a legendary masterpiece. Not a single game is like this one. The sound tracks, the voices, story, graphics, and literally everything is fabulous.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

CDPR is a legend

[@jimmyg1704]

loved the xray shot keep it up my man

[@JonelKingas]

i still have gtx 650 ti lol soon gona buy rx 5700

[@divil2273]

Damn thats a awesome card

[@justinc2633]

and i thought my upgrade from a 960 to a 5700xt was big...

[@dabigbadwolf5081]

I upgraded from a GTX 260 to a HD 7970 ghz Edition, it felt like hole new pc 😂 And yeah, dx 11 support is also very handy 😂

[@JonelKingas]

@@dabigbadwolf5081 bruh thats kinda weak... you should have gone for gtx 1060 used at least if you dont have that much money

[@rhyanandrews1979]

@@dabigbadwolf5081 yea the hd 7970 is really weak tbh, when u next have the chance to buy atleast a gtx 1060, it can play alot of games like fortnite low settings 240 fps, or max settings 60+ fps, i have a 1060 paired with a ryzen 5 1600 and i can stream and play my fortnite at 240fps pretty consistently, and if you suddenly have alot of budget id go gtx 1070 and if you get a little more go for an rtx 2070 super.

[@troghlem352]

Wow. That's pretty incredible. I didn't think it would work that well. Almost 10 years old and still rocking.

[@NeFF37]

not even my 1060 is getting 60 fps in witcher 3 on ultra wtf

[@liltrunks89]

Yeah my gtx 1050 isnt even hitting 50fps on apex legends with low and at 1600x1080

[@Yerinjibbang]

lol with what cpu?

[@NeFF37]

@@Yerinjibbang i7-8700

[@HandleIsNewAndBad]

The video shows drops below 60 for the gtx690, so your GPU is not inferior.

[@ClayWheeler]

Just so you know, the very first Generation of Core i7 970 could still play games at 60+ fps on Ultra. It is all about GPU I assume, because there are bunch of KZbin videos showing how strong still the first Generation of Core i7

[@music4gamers947]

this is my all time favorite gpu,ty for the vid :)

[@teethepenguin2652]

This GPU: Nice.

[@dodgydruid]

Got to add the clarity with the two GPU's running in BF5 is quite astonishing, the mud and the smoke plumes, the way the light plays off of objects is pretty darned good imho

[@almighty151986]

It's still a good card but it's let down by 2 things..... 1) It's low VRAM and 2) lack of driver support.

[@IdiotStinky02]

is the 680 better then the 690 sli because farcry five new dawn with my 8gb ddr4 4gb gtx 680 and i3 8100 runs at around 47-53

[@almighty151986]

@@IdiotStinky02 The 680 has slightly higher clocks then the cores in the 690 but the 690 uses full 680 cores so if you over clock the 690 to 680 clock speeds they should perform the same.

[@BigRigTechAdventures]

I had one of these, it did amazing for for me 5 years, then I went to the 980ti haha. Great video.

[@dan2800]

you can run 2 games at once 1 gpu per game

[@enicaeduard]

Oh WAIT! Linus ran 7 games out of one PC.

[@TrevHowsonDemon82]

@Negan nah Linus did do ridiculous build which allowed 7 gamers 1 cpu

[@enicaeduard]

@@TrevHowsonDemon82 let's say one PC because it had 2 CPUs

[@lucasscalez]

Very Nice content. You could next time display the temperatures, for some comparision on dual/single gpu usage.

[@iiiiii7680]

GTX 590, a $700 card and you got 2 top of the line dies for that price Now you have to spend $2500 for just a single top of the line GPU die, how have times have changed

[@Dylan-xc8yz]

Actually yeah... Wow. Times are changing. GTX 770 x 2 was not far off a 780.. And 2 x GTX 780 was just the bees knees. Watercool and over clock them? You can't ask for much better. Wait a second? You've got titans, times 2, you lucky bitch. Triple 1080p wide-screen. I'd like to see triple 1440p windscreen out of these cards for three times the price and accounting for apparent die improvements

[@iiiiii7680]

@@Dylan-xc8yz Thing is, the "true" GTX 580 successor was the titans because they were the top end, nvidia gave out top dies for $500 back then which was amazing

[@campkira]

well either you make more money or you are a loser...

[@rcninjastudio]

sli 2 690's just for the fun of it, also nice to see Steven on the roof

[@ramazanarkan3255]

Gt980 xGTX690 performance in benchmark?

[@Theninjagecko]

Beast, 2x 680's on one board, I had one of these, cost me £980. I loved it.

[@adelshakal4693]

In the year 2070 Is the rtx2080 most expensive 2019 graphics card worth buying And goes on and on

[@enicaeduard]

Hey, it is the RTX Titan. RTX 2080 it's nothing.

[@wiskymo9687]

doubt that we'd even make it till 2070

[@thealien_ali3382]

I have a rtx 2070 and I play all my games at 720p no homo

[@adelshakal4693]

@@thealien_ali3382 the painful truth about pc gaming and hardware is that no matter how expensive and powerful your hardware is after several years its gonna get old and weak trust me I've had that experience once back in 2012 I had a pc H61 motherboard Ram 4gb Gtx 1030 These used to run any game that time at 30 fps atleast but now it can't do anything you can't even find the same parts new

[@adelshakal4693]

@@wiskymo9687 I think many wars will occur in that specific time

[@KC-bg1th]

When my 1080 Ti order was delayed back when I preordered it, I bought a used 680 for a stand-in and it was great.

[@rakeee]

Did you mean 690? I had 590 and when it broke down I bought an 680 as an emergency replacement and it was horrible. Memory ran out in many games so had to drop graphic settings down, way more unstable and just generally 20-30% lower fps in every title I played with the 590. Still used it until 1080Ti came out as my Titan order was delayed by over a year...

[@1tems]

Title: *has 69 in it* Everyone: Nice

[@0Wayland]

I can't believe that thing only has one fan. Also it's amazing how well the 2nd GPU scales with performance in some titles, I was expecting 50% increase in frames at very best.

[@retroK6607]

Meanwhile RTX 3000 series: Amateurs , you all are amateurs

[@sumitupadhayay2270]

I still remember him doing a gtx 690 video with like 30-35k subs. Wow time flies fast

[@ZeuXspec]

WHY NOT SHOW ALL GPU AND CPU STATUS ON RIVA LIKE: LINUS,TECH YES, JAY , AND SO MANY OTHERS???????

[@thealien_ali3382]

Because ur a twat

[@AmazonFinds.2k]

3:55 WOWWW the fact that this games runs soooo wel on a 2012 GPU is amazing. Battelfield is sooo well optimized, and looks beautiful. One of the only games with High fps as well as "high" graphics.

[@evrencosmsos7872]

Ah man whish there was no 0 in it . It could have been NICE...

[@lexgoogleplay8381]

The GTX 690 is a nice looking card. As you say it was a top of the range card at over £800 new in 2012, yet can now be purchased for around £80 (a tenth) in 2019. Those willing/wanting to keep up with the latest technology have to right off the financial loss against the pleasure of high frames for several years! The GTX 690 is a power hungry card though with 2 x 8 pin connectors. I understand the GTX 690 benchmarks just below a 1050TI (4GB). The 1050TI (non overclockable) cards however only draw power from the motherboard and can just about run VR at low end settings, so they are still a very flexible card in a similar used price bracket to the GTX 690. The GTX 690 is still a nice looking card though and I was thinking of getting one for my collection as well, so great timing with your video!

[@dy7296]

"The Geforce GTX 690..." Reddits: "Nice..."

[@Hightower2804TP]

British accent + old tech? Instant sub!

[@skirmich]

Far Cry 3 is still my favorite… better than 4 and shit tons better than 5.

[@alastairpei]

Bought a 690 2 years ago for my London rig for £150. Was a great time.

[@Blightkun_]

GTX *69* 0

[@biglevian]

I think we did go wrong when we stayed on the single gpu path. We soon are on the smallest possible processes (5 nanometer is pretty much the smallest before quatum states introduce too many errors). So we had the last 10 years to optimize for multiple gpus, but instead games said that's stupid. Sli and the newer standards will work pretty well with professional software and I hope games will soon follow, because if not, we are pretty much at the end of the route. It's not just nvidea's laziness (still mostly), but right now it seems that we won't see anything that is twice as powerful as the 2080 ti on the consumer market in the next years.

[@Garonjam53]

GTX Nice0 *Only legends understand*

[@SomeNot]

Use this and an intel celeron 420.

[@yashmalik4014]

Nice

[@grekhora]

Hey Dave, glad to see you are ok.

[@j-man6001]

Is the British pound = to $2.2 U.S dollars? LOL

[@kire929]

1 USD is the 90% of 1 Euro, and 1 Euro is the 90% of one pound.

[@infasis]

I'd love to see a video about the 6800 Ultra. It was a card I wanted very badly in it's time. You could always grab two and run them in SLI, but I would even been happy with one. I bet you'd get a lot of views as the card looks great, so once people see the mermaid on the thumbnail they're bound to click it.

[@juntaKhann]

I sold my gtx 690 a few months ago, was ok running games with a SLI profile but rather cruddy when playing a game that can only utilize 1 of the GPU's. 2GB vram per GPU was underwhelming also, they could have given 4gb per GPU but I hear they didn't want to effect the Titan sales at the time. A lot of people saying it runs hot, mine never went over 72/75c but I had a fractal design r6 case with lots of airflow.

[@RealRaynedance]

The Titan didn't come until the 700 series, which was in 2013. Unless NVIDIA actually planned ahead back then. Even so, this card still has an effective 2GB of VRAM and the original Titan had 6. Unlikely it would have encroached on it for VRAM reasons.

[@juntaKhann]

@@RealRaynedance The Titan came out 11 Months after this card and the gtx 690 and gtx 780 were both gimped with vram for that very reason.

[@RealRaynedance]

@@juntaKhann I guess NVIDIA finally realized it doesn't matter anymore. :P

[@juntaKhann]

@@RealRaynedance Please *read* my comment correctly before you reply! "2GB vram per GPU was underwhelming also" (2GB effective Is what I stated). "Unlikely it would have encroached on it for VRAM reasons. " All you have done is explain my point back to me and come across as a smart ass, if you don't think nVidia plan ahead with each series of cards you are a braindead moron. Now kindly piss off as you have my back up.

[@RealRaynedance]

@@juntaKhann It wasn't exactly clear since you didn't say whether you knew it stacked or not since you said 2GB per GPU when that can mean _both things_ , but I also see you're not a very nice person. Kindly piss off yourself.

[@ewengharib9485]

Wtf this card have a better framerate in Battlefield than rxt 2080ti with ray tracing LMAO

[@igorthelight]

That is not true. At all.

[@kennethjohnritsema7019]

I played with the 690 ( limited edition with T shirt,mouse ,poster etc price than 1250€ ) up till October 2018 .Sold it on E-bay for 420 € (in two hours) With in all the games everything even on Ultra setting in 1080P , I never had a problem playing : GTA V ,Euro Truck Simulator GOLD ,Ryse Son of Rome,Tomb Raider 2013 ,Witcher 3 etc . The graphics looked always very nice, strangely the objects looked more solid (hard to explain this ) cars in GTA V looked better(even with lots of mods the card run fine ) en the armor's of Ryse Son of Rome, more solid. After this card I bought a GTX 1080TI ROG TRIX (1175€ )and that diet last week (thunderstorm)Now I consider a RTX 2070 ??Still playing on 1080P on a Pioneer Kuro Plasma 60". Thank you for uploading Regards Kenneth John

[@DevTheBigManUno]

Ah the wonderful results of lazy "game devs" Death of the multi-gpu setup.

[@igorthelight]

"Lazy devs" don't want to develop something for 0.1% of users.

[@MohammadBas399]

69ing needs 2 ppl this 690 graphics card has 2 gpu's in it. *nice*

[@UpsideDwon]

This is a silly request, but could you do a rig with an AMD FX8150 and gtx 660 in modern day? that was my first kinda good gaming rig back in 2013 and I remember it fondly! Looking back now with my ryzen 3800x and 2070 Super it seems my tastes from teenage years haven't changed much! Love your content!

[@MickehPuppeh]

I'm still so disappointed that multi-GPU support has completely died out. Remember DirectX 12 and Vulkan? Remember how they promised flawless multi-GPU support, even with different brands? All gone.

[@boogiestreet594]

I love your "We were" this and "We were rnning at that" when it's just you lol.

[@wooptidoo]

I used to own two of these bad boys when it came out and kept my system going for at least 5 years. Now running on RTX 2080Ti.

[@korana6308]

Suggestion for a video that I would absolutely love you to do. Compare low budget CPUs like 9100 - 8100 - 7100 . See how low budget cpus progressed over the years. Include CPU dependent titles like CS:GO.

[@bobcorn69]

I bought one for 100€ just a second before the gpu crisis began. I'm absolutely in love

[@Cash0991]

When FarCry3 came out I had SLI 660Ti's. I was able to play that game at ultra settings with a constant 60fps and it was AWESOME!

[@horrdfr33dom49]

Arggh! Including GTA IV would've been really interesting regarding how it would pull with this dual GPU, plus the fact that it's an old game but not really that optimized.

[@Daxter250]

i really like the game-selection you use to test the cards. however, i would also like to see a strategy game, 'cause they often use a GPU in a different way than one would expect (due to the engine being used that has to handle a lot of moving objects instead of just making things look good).

[@MqKosmos]

Why did the game run faster without sli? When you disable it, do you allow the used GPU to access all the memory, or are those to like hardwired to their respective GPUs?

[@nicholasrockstroh6920]

I'm impressed by how well the 690 holds up even considering the issues with dual GPU support. Or, more precisely, I'm impressed by how well the 680 holds up, lol. The performance you were getting wasn't terrible and while it's not REALLY worth the hassle it's still functional in most titles. I mean, hell, the fact you got 30 fps average in AC:Odyssey kinda blew my mind. I know it was only medium settings, but that game is HARD on GPUs.

[@FunkyM217]

I'd like to see a video on approximating the performance of iGPUs with Discrete cards. Like, is the IntelHD really so weak against Ryzen's Vega integration? And if Onboard Vega is that powerful, how powerful is it? What card would be said to be of similar power?

[@PyroVulpes]

Serious question: What OS are you using to run Far Cry 3? I can't seem to get it to run in Windows 10 at all. If you were able to get it to run in Windows 10, how?

[@Doom_Guy_1977]

Just received a GTX 690 today from CEX after watching this video. Works a treat as a budget build card, but doesn't work at all on my 144hz curved panel, but does work on a standard 60hz flat screen on 720p.

[@Dudae_]

That huge gpu usage VS that relatively small/modest CPU usage indicates a dreadful gpu bottleneck. That poor hardware is struggling :'( Also, should've done Boston Commons or Downtown for that FO4 benchmark Other than that, great video!

[@ChineseNinjaWarrior]

I'm glad to see that Fallout 4 uses sli.