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uge amount of money to spend on a computer or gaming computer, unless your dead serious about gaming and you need the best graphics card in the world, 90% of us would never even think about buying one of these, however – This review will hopefully make you think differently to this card. What you firstly have to remember is that [www.gtx690.org GTX 690] is the best graphics card in the world to date, now when you say that – the phrase turns into ‘Get the BEST IN THE WORLD graphics card for ONLY $1000′, that sounds more justified. Correct?

The Vital statistics for the card are as follows

    GPU – 2 x GK104′s
    SMX Modules – 2 x 8
    CUDA Cores – 2 x 1,536
    Base Clock – 915 MHz
    Boost Clock – 1,019 MHz
    Memory – 2 x 4GB GDDR5 (Thats insane…!)

So, when you consider the amazing power of this piece of kit, the price seems right. Obviously as technology competes with this, it will go down in price. The GeForce [www.gtx690.org GTX 690] is ‘the highest top quality, most out there video card ever built in the world'. From an architectural point of view, the graphics card hosts a hybrid combination of the GK104 graphics processing unit which power both the GTX 680 and Nvidia GTX 670, so this card hauls the power of both these cards on one circuit board. Amazing huh?

Well, why have Nvidia created a hybrid card?

Ok, so – each of the GPU's in the EVGA version of the [www.gtx690.org GTX 690] contain the same number of CUDA cores that can be found in the GK104 in the GTX 680. What this means is that you are looking at a whopping total of 3,072 cores in the twin GPUs.