Gigabyte GTX690 ???? Should I ???

[TonyH0014]

Hey everyone I want to get myself the Gigabyte GTX 690 and yes I know the manufactures don't matter because the 690 is made by Nvidia themselves I can just get this version the cheapest . I am in South Africa and I can get it for :

R 11 399 (828.14 Pound).

I am thinking and about a month or so more last year these cards started to show there faces and I am maybe thinking of waiting for a GTX 790 if its coming or even a GTX 780 if its power full enough. I want to buy something that will last me about 3 years . I have looked at all the reviews and thought hard and I want it ,but my common sense says to wait and my nerd brain says get it get it .

 

[jamesriley94]

Better off getting 670 SLI IMO.
670s will overclock to perform better than a 690 anyway, and they'll be cheaper.

 

[TonyH0014]

Better off getting 670 SLI IMO.
670s will overclock to perform better than a 690 anyway, and they'll be cheaper.

I don't really want to run SLI and so on I like the idea of just having one card for and having a Dual GPU . The price doesn't bother me I have learn'd buy the best and you wont want something bigger , I just want some input . I have also thought of doing 2 670's , my PSU and everything is big enough for that but I enjoy the 4GB graphics RAM and when you SLI 2 cards it doesn't take both cards RAM and I want to try triple screen at some point or has this changed with new cards that it can use both GPU's GRAM if you SLI. Were the 690 has 2GB per core but you can use all 4GB

 

[Noz_God]

a 690 is the same as sli it only really has 2gb of vram i don't think a 690 is eny good for 3 screens

 

[TonyH0014]

a 690 is the same as sli it only really has 2gb of vram i don't think a 690 is eny good for 3 screens

It has 4GB's of RAM that's the great thing of Dual Cards on them it uses both memory modules otherwise why would Nvidia put it in. And yes it works well for triple screen I have seen alot of reviews show it and even TimeToLiveCustoms Review showed how power full it is ran at almost 2 680's speed. I think it should be fine for triple screen but I at the moment only play on a 1080P screen.

 

[Noz_God]

yes it has 4GB just the same as two 2GB 680 in sli do.

 

[B3rni3]

The 690 is advertised as having 4gb because that is true but it isn't if you get me. The 690 has 4gb of memory but it divides it up into 2gb per core, so because there is two cores on the card it is 2gb of memory really as memory wont stack. It is the same with having 2x2gb gtx 680's your system only has 2gb not 4gb.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The 690 is advertised as having 4gb because that is true but it isn't if you get me. The 690 has 4gb of memory but it divides it up into 2gb per core, so because there is two cores on the card it is 2gb of memory really as memory wont stack. It is the same with having 2x2gb gtx 680's your system only has 2gb not 4gb.

Exactly right. Better off with a 7990 if you want 3 screens anyway

 

[TonyH0014]

Exactly right. Better off with a 7990 if you want 3 screens anyway

7990 ? No official 7990 has been released and those Devil and Ares 2 cards are way to expensive to import in South Africa .

 

[NeverBackDown]

Those are still 7990s lol
And a 690 is not? Really crossfire 7970s for 3 screens is ideal, higher bit bus(384bit) and 3gb of VRAM which should help with high aliasing and everything else

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

You could always go with a 6gb 7970 http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1157&lid=1&pid=1483

That would be the best for 3 screens running 2560x1600 each. And if you get 3 you will have enough core speed to run all three and not worry about vRAM being a bottleneck. And now that I think about it, as long as the cores can keep up 6gb would be golden for 3 screens running 4k.

 

[WillSK]

You could always go with a 6gb 7970 http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1157&lid=1&pid=1483

That would be the best for 3 screens running 2560x1600 each. And if you get 3 you will have enough core speed to run all three and not worry about vRAM being a bottleneck. And now that I think about it, as long as the cores can keep up 6gb would be golden for 3 screens running 4k.

If money is no option then I have to agree with King here. This card would be a beast! and if you decided later to crossfire it then even more awesome!!

 

[NeverBackDown]

How come in the poll you only have nvidia cards listed? Amd perfroms better(last i checked) on multi display