Testing the nVidia Geforce GTX 690 SLI graphics card in old and new games.
2012 was a weird time for PCs. The current trend among power users and rich enthusiasts was multi-GPUs; combining the power of several graphics cards linked across SLI or Crossfire. Because corporations don’t quite know when to stop, there was a brief trend for single graphics cards with multiple GPUs onboard.
The last generation of these cards from Team Green were based on the Kepler architecture; those cards, including the GTX 690 featured here, are now left in the awkward position of having an architecure that is oncompatible with many new games, and relying on a now-defunct multi-GPU gimmick.
In this video I’ll chart the GTX 690’s descent from flagship powerhouse to borderline irrelevance, using games from 2011 through to the present day.
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Music by @Backing Track
00:00 SLIde Away: The Slow Death Of The GTX 690
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