GeForce GTX 690 Review: Dual NVIDIA GK104 GPUs

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, May 03, 2012, 08:55 AM EDT

Looking back through the numbers, it's clear that even a 30" LCD monitor with a resolution of 2560x1600 doesn't pack enough pixels to make the GeForce GTX 690 break a sweat, so we also did some testing with triple-monitor setup to evaluate NVIDIA Surround and AMD Eyefinity performance with a trio of similarly priced configurations.

What we have below are tests with Metro 2033, Dirt 3, and Batman Arkham City at high-quality settings, at a resolution of 5760x1080 (the aggregate resolution of three 22" 1920x1080 displays, in a 3x1 landscape configuration).

Eyefinity vs. Surround View

AMD and NVIDIA Multi-Monitor Testing

The Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire configuration put up the best score in Metro 2033 with running across three monitors, but the GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX 680 SLI take the top two positions in Dirt 3 and Batman.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gaming, DirectX, graphics, GTX-690

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com