NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k

Would you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend in Shanghai at its Game Festival by unleashing it's latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 -- and oh yeah, it's packing two 28nm Kepler GPUs! Trumping the company's GTX 680 as the "worlds fastest graphics card," it's loaded with a whopping 3,072 Cuda cores Among other materials, it's outer-frame is made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, while you'll find and thixomolded magnesium alloy around the fan for vibration reduction and added cooling. Aiding in cooling even further the unit also sports a dual vapor chamber and a center-mounted fan. It'll cost you a spendy $1,000 to pick up one these puppies up come May 3rd, and you'll be tempted to double up as two can run together in SLI as an effective quadcore card. According to NVIDIA, a single 690 runs 4dB quieter and handles about twice the framerate as a duo of GTX 680s -- impressive, but we'll reserve judgement until we see it for ourselves. check out the press release after the break if you'd like more information in the meantime. (...and yes, it runs Crysis -- 2 Ultra to be exact-- at 57.8fps, according to NVIDIA.)

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