Fastest graphics card on Earth
NVIDIA has launched its latest graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690, with twin Kepler cores
making it the world’s fastest, at least for the moment. The GPU company
hasn’t wasted the opportunity to makethe GeForce GTX 690 look the part, either, with superlatives galore: a trivalent chromium-plated aluminum frame, thixomolded magnesium alloy fan housing, and dual vapor chambers with a nickel-plated finstack
The lid has been lifted on the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690. It's
undoubtedly the fastest graphics card on planet. And it's priced at an
utterly offensive $1,000.
That means that in the UK buyers should
be looking at roughly £700 - still a whopping amount - but UK
enthusiasts are actually going to have to pay £830 for this dual-GPU
monster.The thing is, the RS 4.0 has some seriously high end hardware. And I'm not sure you can say the same of the GTX 690. It's based on a pair of GTX 680 chips in tag teaming SLI configuration. The GTX 680 is the fastest single GPU you can buy, so a pair of them makes this very likely the quickest dual-GPU board on the market.
There’s NVIDIA Surround support, and a
new 10-phase, heavy-duty power supply with a 10-layer, 2oz copper
printed circuit board and a center-mounted axial fan with optimized fin
pitch and air entry angles. Finally, the company has used low-profile
components along with ducted baseplate channels “for unobstructed
airflow, minimizing turbulence and improving acoustic quality.”