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

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

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

It is actually crazy how well optimised Battlefield games are.

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

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

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

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

I was expecting to see seagul My prayers have been heard

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.

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

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

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

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 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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

loved the xray shot keep it up my man

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.

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

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

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

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

SEAGUL. When is the next subscriber setup review?

Yeay Dave is back!

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nice camera work.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I loved it so much - i wanted it when it came out - but i was stuck with GTX 470. Finally now i am with a modern GPU 1080 ti - but my CPU is kinda weak 4790k. But either way - great video !!

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.

This GPU: Nice.

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

Does that SLI workaround on battlefield v also work on crossfire? just curious as my 2 fury x's should theoretically run it well.

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? ;)

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.

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

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

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

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

Hey Dave, glad to see you are ok.

British accent + old tech? Instant sub!

Gt980 xGTX690 performance in benchmark?

you can run 2 games at once 1 gpu per game

👍!👍! Good job on the vid.

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

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.

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

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!

nicely done

Meanwhile RTX 3000 series: Amateurs , you all are amateurs

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

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.

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).

Title: *has 69 in it* Everyone: Nice

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

im gonna order one of these as a collectors item and hey it may even see my streaming rig when it gets to that point

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.

GTX *69* 0

GTX Nice0 *Only legends understand*

@randomgaminginHD Would you do a HD 7990 run see if it still holds up well?

One word, nice

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

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

So looking forward to this review as I have toyed a lot with grabbing one just for the bragging rights of owning such a beast, not so hot on all that tinkering but then I only really game World of Warcraft or run my Wii/other emus and WoW is notoriously anti-multi anything with them finally going multi-core support just this year and I can't see them being too good over a bridged dual gpu card but luckily the game works well on older gear so it will prob be single setup if I do punch the clock on one at CEX. I think my results on my main pc will be a leetle less as I am on a eight core AM3+ cpu and have toyed too with going the multicore Xeon setup if I can find one of them rare Asus ROG motherboards that allow you to mess about with 24 core Xeons in a gaming setup lol

My last dual gpu setup was 6970 x 2. Sli and crossfire was mixed bag back then. I don’t even miss it.

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

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

Brings back memories of my first gaming laptop. It had a GTX670M with a new i5 cpu. It was such a beast. xD I miss that thing.

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!

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

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

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

Held up surprisingly well....wow.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

@00:28 for a moment I honestly thought that you'd left that out in the rain

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

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.