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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
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
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 Tessellation is still a thing but the card was outdated before it became relevant.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
I still have this. It works 7 years later, but I was pretty young and inexperienced with computers and didn't know it was SLI. I also bought it right before the 600s series went out of production. Big mistake.
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.
@@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.
I had 2x gtx680s in my AMD FX8350 machine since launch. It worked very well on BL2 Xcom2 and a few other titles but as things have evolved it has lost it’s advantages . My single GTX1660ti is most definitely a better setup and should get by until I can build a new PC.
The first and last SLI setup I had was dual gtx 8600's, and it was a huge pain in the ass even back in the day. STALKER SoC would flicker and spaz, and so would Assassin's Creed (the first one). Other games, like Left4Dead, and other source engine games, seemed to do OK though.
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
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
@@Dylan-xc8yz Thing is, the "true" GTX 580 successor was the titans because they were the top end, nvidia gave out top dies for $500 back then which was amazing
I never had a 690, but was running a GTX 680 last year. Sold it for 90$ Cad after upgrading to AMD RX 580. Perfectly acceptable card for 1080p gaming, although does get loud and hot.
Mine is still running in kids PC . An EVGA limited edition that came with a T-shirt I still have stored away (T-shirt is the only limited bit). Had originaly got it to run ArmA3 over multiple monitors, & was using it till the 1080 came out. It's now on single monitor and its most challenging task is running Fortnight @1080p wich it does perfectly well.
You should try it with Rocket League. I have 2 RX 570's (My GTX970 caught fire and I had them laying around and said screw it.). Rocket League natively supports crossfire, so I assume it will utilize SLI as well. My PC was pinned on 240fps, which I assume is the game's limit. GTA 5 also, but it would be rough with the memory limitation.
Crossfire SLI is a must for 4k Gaming at 60fps+ on max settings. :P not a gimmic but a lifestyle! The 690 was a beast upon release I bought 2 of them myself.
@@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.
i still have my 7 year old gtx690 card it served me so well now it lives in a box in the attic coz i cant bring myself to throw it away, replaced it last year with a gtx 1080ti which is a hell of a card
@@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
My Alienware Area 51 Desktop in 2008/2009 came with GT 9800 X2 (model may be wrong but it was GT 9800). It was a 1 GB card, 1 HDMI, multiple DVI. Crysis played good although I didn't do FPS counters back then. I still have it, but the fan won't spin and it over heats.
I brought one of these earlier in the year off facebook untested local for £20. I plugged it in, worked fine. Stuck it on ebay and it sold for £130. Bonus.
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.
In Witcher 3 I had to enable a frame limiter to get rid of micro stutters back when I had my two GTX 960s... GTA5, Assassins Creed Unity and Farcry 4 had good SLI support too though... And in Space Engineers you could get it to work with some tweaks in Inspector^^
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.
@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
Competition is must to keep the technology to grow continuously as well as to keep the prices in check. Hope AMD rises further to keep Nvidia in check.
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.
I bought this card brand new in 2012 and used it until 2017, I still have it, when my girlfriend found out she got like really mad and left me a few weeks later. Couldn't thank this card enough.
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!
690 really is stupid powerful and a steal at $80, it's just a shame about the SLI situation. I still wish it made more sense (in a perfect world) to sli two lower-tier RTX cards to beat a 2080ti across the board.
From my perspective, a large part of the problem with the Nvidia 600 series Kepler was the fact that Nvidia scrimped the amount of VRAM. If the GTX 680 had 3 GB (or the GTX 690 had 2 x 3 GB) like the GTX 780, graphics might not have been so bottlenecked.
Keep an eye out on the EVGA Mid-Week Madness sales every Wednesday night at midnight... You can still get 8800 GS cards from their B-stock with warranty lol
great video but newer games you did not benchmark that support sli out of the box are gta 5 , fortnite , any game made on unreal engine 4 , world of tanks
I'll still never understand why they would put two GPUs on a single PCB but not design an integrated controller to manage them. Using an IC for GPU management would allow the GPUs to sync properly and tell the system it's only one GPU, allowing it to run without worrying about SLI support. Of course you would need some fancy programming, but if you're going to do something wrong - why do it at all?
You could also turn around the question and ask: 'which games would you play on your GPU'? For instance Red Dead Redemption II will be nearly impossible to play on any medium to high settings above 1080p.
I still have a GTX660 OC in my hometown computer, been gaming on it till 2018. Yah, that generation was awesome. Now I'm gonna be keeping my 1060 for the rest of my life, I suppose, as by the time I can afford 2060, it will be obsolete.
For my part, I own a radeon HD 7990, dual-GPU solution, and maybe you should give it a go.. I watch a lot of youtube 4K and up 60+ FPS. It's interesting how this "monster" of a card from 2013 is still really useful, especially with more than one screen. The only fact I don't like about it is its power consumption .. it needs a good 850W 80+ certified PSU or a 1000W one (Maybe the best solution for my part) to run great. In GTA V utlra especially, it's quite hard to hit 60 FPS stable with this card, but my test bench for gaming is an aging X58 based system, with an I7 - 950.. So just for the interest of owning one, or her more powerful sister, the Radeon R9 295X2 known as "Vesuvius". It's a highly demanding card for electric power, but maybe if you can find one, I want to know what it's capable of in 2019, and if it's a good value for the money. I really enjoy your videos, especially GPU testing, and weird hardware.. I hope you'll read my comment and give me some news back if you want to give it a go :). Thanks :p
Years ago I never thought I would own this card let alone get the performance of it. I was building my own PC and couldn't afford one, so I opted for cheap. Eventually I nabbed a GTX 560. Descent at the time and later managed to SLI, then I upgraded to a 660. After a while I considered getting the 970 because of performance and cost. When I came close to buying one Nvidia announced the 10 series. I was excited and decided to wait. Once the card was on the market I bought one. I was stunned by the performance. Then I got the RTX 2080 and use it today. The 690 was no longer a desire to me and I owned one of the top 3 gaming graphics cards.
I had two of these in quad sli , I thought I had the fastest thing around 😂. I still remember everyone complaining about two of them not sharing memory.
In 2012 I didn't know what to do 680 was just not enough and 690 was too unreliable. I waited long enough with 550 as a stand in and GTX titan came out. It was glorious! It is still right next to me, serves me as a good cup holder. :)
Its actually a shame that SLI/Crossfire didnt pan out, not that ill ever be able to afford or justify it but id like the idea that its possible to throw 4 2080tis into a pc and play games at 8k/60fps. If only there were a way to make SLI work that didnt require devs to program specifically for it.
The problem with the 690 was that it was running 2x 680's on slightly lower clock speed, which meant that a 680 would often yield better FPS in some games that doesn't support SLI.
It would've been intresting to look at the VRAM usage with the more modern titles, I'd expect 2GB to be a bottleneck (and maybe the reason behind the freezes in Battlefield V)
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
Thanks to inflation its going to keep going up in prices.
@@aa-gz6kw greedy companies =/= inflation
It's because of that Nvidia greed. Buy AMD!
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.
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.
Imagine in 2027 he uploaded
"Is RTX 2080 still worth buying in 2027?"
RTX 2080 Ti
Cuz I think 4k60 is getting old.
We haven't improved in the last 3 years as much as we used to.
@@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.
@@superlumbagoman9370 about to blow your mind but 2k is not the resolution you think it is.
2k is essentially 1080p
QHD is - 1440p
@@superlumbagoman9370 my 32 inch 1440p 85 hz high-color-amount monitor was 200, you should look harder for better products lol
It is actually crazy how well optimised Battlefield games are.
DICE is the only studio that knows how to use Frostbite, other games on that engine don't run well
Except that it runs like horse shit at the moment outside of single player. Lots of multiplayer stutters & issues.
@@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.
@@realHenryBayman I too have a r5 2600 and it runs perfectly fine. What are your ram speeds ?
@@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
Worth noting that 2GB of VRAM per GPU means it still has an effective 2GB of VRAM. The VRAM doesn't stack.
nvlink is capable of stacking
@@Bogdan00 Sure. But standard SLI (which is what this card had to use) can't.
@@RealRaynedance then download some VRAM
@@Bogdan00 Don't I have to delete system32 to make room for it though?
@@RealRaynedance download some HDDs
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.
You dodged a bullet by not buying it since SLI/Crossfire is obselete now
Choose the best card for each year from 2005 to 2019 and test them only with the games that released that year
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.
B o r i n g
@@VladimirJovanov why are you here then? Yeesh
@@NaschAzure of course best card for each year is going to function flawlessly with the games released that year. Why would someone watch that???
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.
I still remember when it came out and cost like 1000€. Incredible how fast tech loses it's value.
Well i think its the fact that it had 2 gpus. If gtx 690 only had 1 gpu it wouldve aged a lot better
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
SEX is the future of gamers! Buy our condoms!
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.
RTX will stay around. It's pretty easy to add to games, and it's pretty.
@@ivanlagrossemoule People also scoffed at gpu shaders...
And like literally every single new technology.
@@janisir4529 It's pretty easy to add to games yet literally nobody does that.
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!
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.
far cry 4 20 minutes later after pagan ming finished speaking... the end
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.
@@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
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
@@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.
I wanted this card so bad back in the day. I still want it.
Mr. Liam same
Mr. Liam I just got 2 for $120
I got it too. For a good 50 euro
Kagan Der I have one u wanna buy it?
And I wanted 8800 ultra so bad back in the day too.
Remember like it was yesterday.
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.
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
i wanted to see GTA 4 on this card for some reason :/
same
yea surprised he didn't include it in
because this card could not even start the gta 4. LOL
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.
I never tried GTA 4. GTA 5 will run just fine on a 690 even at 1440p/1600p.
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.
SEAGUL.
When is the next subscriber setup review?
@@iceangelx22 no u
@@iceangelx22 i didn't actually. Your mom gay
Amy Purrington not going to woooosh you.......
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.
R9 295X2 is better looking though.
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
I have a msi gtx 1080 ti duke 😎😎😎
Too bad the design is functionally garbage.
600 was the only series that had a 90 version.
Nice
There also was a gtx 590
@@0rogontorogon r/wooosh
ツSindyan how?
Rtx 3090?
@@BigBad21 r/wooosh. This was 7 months ago
Please make a video using the GTX 690 on a Batman game and dedicate one gpu for PhysXs.
Ooh or dig up that fps that was bundled with the Aegia cards that Nvidia patched to work with SLI.
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.
@@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
Had this card back in the day. Still have it in my secondary rig. Really shocking how well this card can run some games.
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.
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.
Ten minutes to appreciate this old beast, thank you father HD
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!
Bought a 690 2 years ago for my London rig for £150. Was a great time.
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.
I bought one for 100€ just a second before the gpu crisis began. I'm absolutely in love
I still have this. It works 7 years later, but I was pretty young and inexperienced with computers and didn't know it was SLI. I also bought it right before the 600s series went out of production. Big mistake.
My last dual gpu setup was 6970 x 2. Sli and crossfire was mixed bag back then. I don’t even miss it.
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.
CDPR is a legend
Wow. That's pretty incredible. I didn't think it would work that well. Almost 10 years old and still rocking.
i still have gtx 650 ti lol
soon gona buy rx 5700
Damn thats a awesome card
and i thought my upgrade from a 960 to a 5700xt was big...
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 😂
@@dabigbadwolf5081 bruh thats kinda weak... you should have gone for gtx 1060 used at least if you dont have that much money
@@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.
I had 2x gtx680s in my AMD FX8350 machine since launch. It worked very well on BL2 Xcom2 and a few other titles but as things have evolved it has lost it’s advantages . My single GTX1660ti is most definitely a better setup and should get by until I can build a new PC.
The first and last SLI setup I had was dual gtx 8600's, and it was a huge pain in the ass even back in the day. STALKER SoC would flicker and spaz, and so would Assassin's Creed (the first one). Other games, like Left4Dead, and other source engine games, seemed to do OK though.
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
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
@@Dylan-xc8yz Thing is, the "true" GTX 580 successor was the titans because they were the top end, nvidia gave out top dies for $500 back then which was amazing
well either you make more money or you are a loser...
I never had a 690, but was running a GTX 680 last year. Sold it for 90$ Cad after upgrading to AMD RX 580. Perfectly acceptable card for 1080p gaming, although does get loud and hot.
Mine is still running in kids PC . An EVGA limited edition that came with a T-shirt I still have stored away (T-shirt is the only limited bit). Had originaly got it to run ArmA3 over multiple monitors, & was using it till the 1080 came out. It's now on single monitor and its most challenging task is running Fortnight @1080p wich it does perfectly well.
You should try it with Rocket League. I have 2 RX 570's (My GTX970 caught fire and I had them laying around and said screw it.). Rocket League natively supports crossfire, so I assume it will utilize SLI as well. My PC was pinned on 240fps, which I assume is the game's limit. GTA 5 also, but it would be rough with the memory limitation.
This GPU: Nice.
Crossfire SLI is a must for 4k Gaming at 60fps+ on max settings. :P not a gimmic but a lifestyle! The 690 was a beast upon release I bought 2 of them myself.
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.
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
@@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.
@00:28 for a moment I honestly thought that you'd left that out in the rain
Bought one for 50$ in Sweden, just needed cleaning and new thermal paste. Perfect for my budget build I bought for fun with an i7 2600k. :)
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Everyone: Nice
i still have my 7 year old gtx690 card it served me so well now it lives in a box in the attic coz i cant bring myself to throw it away, replaced it last year with a gtx 1080ti which is a hell of a card
In the year 2070
Is the rtx2080 most expensive 2019 graphics card worth buying
And goes on and on
Hey, it is the RTX Titan. RTX 2080 it's nothing.
doubt that we'd even make it till 2070
I have a rtx 2070 and I play all my games at 720p no homo
@@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
@@wiskymo9687 I think many wars will occur in that specific time
Meanwhile RTX 3000 series:
Amateurs , you all are amateurs
My Alienware Area 51 Desktop in 2008/2009 came with GT 9800 X2 (model may be wrong but it was GT 9800). It was a 1 GB card, 1 HDMI, multiple DVI. Crysis played good although I didn't do FPS counters back then. I still have it, but the fan won't spin and it over heats.
Gt980 xGTX690 performance in benchmark?
I brought one of these earlier in the year off facebook untested local for £20. I plugged it in, worked fine. Stuck it on ebay and it sold for £130. Bonus.
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.
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In Witcher 3 I had to enable a frame limiter to get rid of micro stutters back when I had my two GTX 960s... GTA5, Assassins Creed Unity and Farcry 4 had good SLI support too though... And in Space Engineers you could get it to work with some tweaks in Inspector^^
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.
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!
@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
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.
Is the British pound = to $2.2 U.S dollars? LOL
1 USD is the 90% of 1 Euro, and 1 Euro is the 90% of one pound.
Competition is must to keep the technology to grow continuously as well as to keep the prices in check. Hope AMD rises further to keep Nvidia in check.
Far Cry 3 is still my favorite… better than 4 and shit tons better than 5.
I may have said it already, I have found the flickering can be resolved by bumping up the voltage of the VRAM and cooling it.
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.
Ah the wonderful results of lazy "game devs" Death of the multi-gpu setup.
"Lazy devs" don't want to develop something for 0.1% of users.
80 pounds for a card that needs some adjustments and can get 60fps + on ultra/medium in some still good looking titles is insanely good
This was the time I built my own i3 2100 Rig and I saw this Monster on a Special Display Glass in a Mall... Just smirk and walk away... =P
I bought this card brand new in 2012 and used it until 2017, I still have it, when my girlfriend found out she got like really mad and left me a few weeks later. Couldn't thank this card enough.
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!
Its reference design had something ahead of its time somehow.
690 really is stupid powerful and a steal at $80, it's just a shame about the SLI situation. I still wish it made more sense (in a perfect world) to sli two lower-tier RTX cards to beat a 2080ti across the board.
From my perspective, a large part of the problem with the Nvidia 600 series Kepler was the fact that Nvidia scrimped the amount of VRAM. If the GTX 680 had 3 GB (or the GTX 690 had 2 x 3 GB) like the GTX 780, graphics might not have been so bottlenecked.
I still running my 680 since the 690 was 400 more and preferred using that money on more ram lol
I remember this time, gtx660ti in sli and it was awesome!
You should test FO4 in the downtown near to Goodneighboor cause in that part is where the framerate normally drops with any GPU.
2028: is the 3090 still good enough for 1080p
You should test Apex at the competitive settings too: native res and everything else to the lowest.
Very Nice content.
You could next time display the temperatures, for some comparision on dual/single gpu usage.
Still have it
Keep an eye out on the EVGA Mid-Week Madness sales every Wednesday night at midnight... You can still get 8800 GS cards from their B-stock with warranty lol
great video but newer games you did not benchmark that support sli out of the box are gta 5 , fortnite , any game made on unreal engine 4 , world of tanks
So i assume my DDR5 GT 1030 *JUST* almost as good as Single GPU of GTX 690?
*YEAH I LOVE TECHNOLOGIES*
Im still running SLI with 2x980Ti's with a i7-5960X. No need for any upgrade anytime soon, I feel. :)
Used it from 2013 to '17. Was a great card.
I'll still never understand why they would put two GPUs on a single PCB but not design an integrated controller to manage them.
Using an IC for GPU management would allow the GPUs to sync properly and tell the system it's only one GPU, allowing it to run without worrying about SLI support.
Of course you would need some fancy programming, but if you're going to do something wrong - why do it at all?
I love your "We were" this and "We were rnning at that" when it's just you lol.
I saw the thumbnail before the title and my first thought was it’s called SLI
You could also turn around the question and ask: 'which games would you play on your GPU'?
For instance Red Dead Redemption II will be nearly impossible to play on any medium to high settings above 1080p.
I still have a GTX660 OC in my hometown computer, been gaming on it till 2018. Yah, that generation was awesome.
Now I'm gonna be keeping my 1060 for the rest of my life, I suppose, as by the time I can afford 2060, it will be obsolete.
For my part, I own a radeon HD 7990, dual-GPU solution, and maybe you should give it a go.. I watch a lot of youtube 4K and up 60+ FPS. It's interesting how this "monster" of a card from 2013 is still really useful, especially with more than one screen. The only fact I don't like about it is its power consumption .. it needs a good 850W 80+ certified PSU or a 1000W one (Maybe the best solution for my part) to run great. In GTA V utlra especially, it's quite hard to hit 60 FPS stable with this card, but my test bench for gaming is an aging X58 based system, with an I7 - 950.. So just for the interest of owning one, or her more powerful sister, the Radeon R9 295X2 known as "Vesuvius". It's a highly demanding card for electric power, but maybe if you can find one, I want to know what it's capable of in 2019, and if it's a good value for the money. I really enjoy your videos, especially GPU testing, and weird hardware.. I hope you'll read my comment and give me some news back if you want to give it a go :). Thanks :p
Me with a gtx 650 ti, “Yea- yeah that’s a good card”
Years ago I never thought I would own this card let alone get the performance of it.
I was building my own PC and couldn't afford one, so I opted for cheap. Eventually I nabbed a GTX 560. Descent at the time and later managed to SLI, then I upgraded to a 660. After a while I considered getting the 970 because of performance and cost. When I came close to buying one Nvidia announced the 10 series. I was excited and decided to wait. Once the card was on the market I bought one. I was stunned by the performance. Then I got the RTX 2080 and use it today. The 690 was no longer a desire to me and I owned one of the top 3 gaming graphics cards.
i really liked this cooler design, had me hoping for a GTX 790...
Instead we got the Titan Z, for $3000!!!
That is a shockingly good card still for the price with modern games. I would have thought the vram would have killed it
If this had more vram at least 4gb it would be a beast
I had two of these in quad sli , I thought I had the fastest thing around 😂. I still remember everyone complaining about two of them not sharing memory.
Best game ever? [Arkham Asylum theme plays in background.]
In 2012 I didn't know what to do 680 was just not enough and 690 was too unreliable. I waited long enough with 550 as a stand in and GTX titan came out. It was glorious! It is still right next to me, serves me as a good cup holder. :)
I'd like to see a video on Crossfire, like two Crossfire enabled RX 470s or similar.
Its actually a shame that SLI/Crossfire didnt pan out, not that ill ever be able to afford or justify it but id like the idea that its possible to throw 4 2080tis into a pc and play games at 8k/60fps. If only there were a way to make SLI work that didnt require devs to program specifically for it.
Can we appreciate how beautiful looks farcry 3 even after all these years
It looks great but 4 has definitely aged better
Video on how modern GPUs run on sli for older and newer titles
The problem with the 690 was that it was running 2x 680's on slightly lower clock speed, which meant that a 680 would often yield better FPS in some games that doesn't support SLI.
Video ideas
A ddr3 vs gddr3 vs gddr5 gpu variant comparison
a video comparing 6th gen intel using ddr3l ram vs ddr4 ram
It would've been intresting to look at the VRAM usage with the more modern titles, I'd expect 2GB to be a bottleneck (and maybe the reason behind the freezes in Battlefield V)