WEBVTT 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:18.600 welcome to a special Linus Tech tips unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 690 so 00:00:14.719 --> 00:00:21.880 yes this is basically like a 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:24.400 590 like you put it in like a you know 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:29.320 multiplication machine and you makes two of them so it's pretty much two did I 00:00:27.279 --> 00:00:32.960 say 590 cuz what I meant to say was 680 I'm sorry actually haven't slept very 00:00:31.119 --> 00:00:37.120 much in the last few days and I apologize if that comes through in this 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:42.640 video but uh hopefully there will be an update in the next little while as to 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:45.200 why that is and then you will all 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:52.280 understand I think so this is basically like a 680 * 2 almost it has all the 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:57.719 same functional units that is shaders ropps as a GTX 680 but the only key 00:00:55.879 --> 00:01:03.239 difference is that it is clocked slightly slower now remember that the 00:01:00.199 --> 00:01:04.640 680 and the 690 by extension have two 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:08.159 different clock speeds by the way this has a very empty box like you know how I 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.799 normally tell you like the stuff on the box there's like nothing on it they 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:15.080 expect I guess if you're spending $1,000 on a graphics card that you probably 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:19.920 have some idea what you're buying otherwise you wouldn't be doing it um 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:24.680 where was I going with that right right all the functional 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:29.680 units it is clocked slightly slower but not by much cuz remember 680 and 690 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.880 have two clock speeds there's the base clock clock and the Boost clock so the 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:37.880 base clocks are a little bit different but the Boost clocks are very very close 00:01:36.479 --> 00:01:41.720 and these cards whenever they are operating within their power envelope 00:01:39.759 --> 00:01:44.960 ARM yourself with EVGA very very cool hey this is cool I have one of these 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:48.439 it's actually here let's go see it it's over there that's what my GTX uh 590 00:01:47.479 --> 00:01:55.840 came in sweet see got my NVIDIA ammo 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:58.920 box see very cool anyway sorry guys just 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.600 showing off you know how it is um so as 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:06.439 long as they're operating within the power envelope set out by the graphics 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:13.000 card it will operate at that boost clock assuming no overheating as well so in 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:14.920 Practical terms they are very very close 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:21.360 a 690 is very close in terms of performance to two 680s in SLI consumes 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:27.319 less power which is very very cool and is also quad SLI capable without so many 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:31.519 PCI Express slots being taken out because you can run 680s in Quad SLI as 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:35.120 well in terms of included accessories we have a powered by EVGA sticker that's 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:38.560 got a very cool carbon fiber kind of finish on it as well as a driver 00:02:36.920 --> 00:02:43.720 installation disc we've got a little warning about how the card is hot and be 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:47.400 careful please EVGA signature GTX 690 00:02:43.720 --> 00:02:49.000 quick start guide okay Enthusiast built 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:53.280 okay very neat couple little stickers user guide as well as a few accessories 00:02:51.640 --> 00:02:57.599 so accessories I'm not expecting too much uh okay oh for please for Pete's 00:02:55.959 --> 00:03:03.400 sakes if you're running one of these cards please do not use the DVI VGA 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:06.239 adapter get a real monitor okay DVI to 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:11.440 HDMI that might come in handy next we have a dual six pin to eight pin adapter 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:17.040 two of those because this graphics card does require two eight pin power 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:20.000 adapters and my goodness it's heavy holy cow uh here you don't have to come in 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:24.760 too close just for the moment I'm just going to unwrap it here so you guys will 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:29.799 see actually something very cool I'm going to leave this here for just a 00:03:26.799 --> 00:03:31.959 second let you guys take kind of a a 00:03:29.799 --> 00:03:38.120 close look at it want to touch it too much 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:42.720 absolutely gorgeous so we're going to do a quick size comparison against the GTX 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:48.159 680 so that's one thing you guys will notice it is a bit longer than a regular 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:55.840 gtx680 but it also Bears a striking resemblance 00:03:52.680 --> 00:04:00.120 to the last generation GTX 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:02.720 590 which is in similar fashion to GTX X 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:06.879 580s pretty much but clocked a little bit slower so you can see okay here we 00:04:05.079 --> 00:04:11.959 go so you can see it's a fairly similar design so NVIDIA has two Vapor Chambers 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:15.040 here with aluminum fins that have Plexi Windows don't worry these stickers come 00:04:13.480 --> 00:04:21.040 off you will be able to see them very clearly um so right aluminum fins on 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:24.240 either side cooling the two gpus one other thing that they've done is they've 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:28.479 adjusted the back plate that's under the fan right there so that it doesn't have 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:31.120 gaps in it anymore this is in theory to reduce turbulence so they just adjusted 00:04:30.080 --> 00:04:38.000 the back plate so it cools the components directly rather than requiring that air flow they have also 00:04:35.479 --> 00:04:43.160 changed the Shroud see this plastic shroud bam aluminum as well as I believe 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:47.039 I believe one of these components is magnesium and one of them of them is aluminum but you're going to have to 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:53.360 forgive me I can't remember which is which but the point is that this is 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:57.120 almost an entirely metal card just 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:59.360 because we can and it's a $1,000 card so 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:04.680 I guess they were able to uh to figure out way to not only design it almost 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:11.039 entirely in metal but also put an enormous glowing GeForce GTX logo on it 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:15.720 that looks absolutely Beast so we had a glowing logo on the 590 now we have uh 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:21.160 we have we have increased the size of that their logo by a fair significant 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:25.120 amount it also looks quite a bit more Sleek some guys like back plates I'm 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:28.600 personally not an enormous fan of back plates they do look very clean you can 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:33.120 see the 590 did have a back plate whereas the 690 does not have a back 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:38.759 plate the reason for that is because the 690 is using higher density gddr5 memory 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:42.800 modules these are Samsung modules that are running at 6 GHz there are none on 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:46.520 the back because they're higher density so you no longer need those back plates 00:05:44.840 --> 00:05:50.759 in order to cool them one thing that's really cool about the 690 is that it is 00:05:48.919 --> 00:05:56.080 significantly overbuilt so it actually uses a very similar overall layout as 00:05:53.840 --> 00:06:00.479 the 590 in terms of the PCB in terms of the power delivery so they've made some 00:05:58.039 --> 00:06:05.880 tweaks but what's cool about that is the fact that these 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:08.919 dual uh the Dual Graphics cores on this 00:06:05.880 --> 00:06:11.440 car do not require nearly as much power 00:06:08.919 --> 00:06:15.000 as the cores that were on the 590 so even though we've got all of this power 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.720 delivery built into the card we don't actually need it so NVIDIA has 00:06:16.479 --> 00:06:22.280 effectively overbuilt the card in a significant way so what that allows you 00:06:20.599 --> 00:06:25.840 is a little bit more room for overclocking although NVIDIA doesn't 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:30.000 want people overvolting these I don't know if you guys remember but there were 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:34.440 some horror stories where the GTX we had some GTX 590s die due to people 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:38.560 overvolting the snot out of them and the fact that they are pretty much a Balls 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:41.720 to the walls Take It to the Limit design from the get-go so that was that was a 00:06:40.440 --> 00:06:47.319 bit of a problem I wouldn't expect that to happen with the 690 though just because it is so overbuilt now speaking 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.240 of overbuilt let's have a look at what all it's got here in terms of the build 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:56.440 so we've got three DVI ports two dvii one DVI D so this is not 00:06:55.000 --> 00:07:02.240 going to work with an analog adapter although you shouldn't be using analog anyway um so if you're going to run 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:04.960 NVIDIA surround you can run these three um that would be my recommended 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:09.840 configuration you've also got a dis a mini DisplayPort which I believe can be used in surround as well but for 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:16.280 Simplicity of configuration I would definitely suggest sticking with three 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:17.759 DVI ports um especially because if 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:22.440 you're going to want to run 3D Vision you will have to use the DVI ports now 00:07:19.960 --> 00:07:26.360 we've also got two 8 Pin PCIe power connectors just like with the 590 and 00:07:24.919 --> 00:07:30.319 let's just have a you know like a bit of a closer look at the overall design of 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:36.400 this card it looks absolutely amazing I mean even this not plastic 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:39.280 guys made of metal this metal metal 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:43.240 metal we've got like these like aircraft riety looking things holding the whole 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:48.120 thing together I mean this is the kind of card that I wouldn't even want to 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:50.280 water cool because it looks so amazing 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:54.840 with the uh with the stock cooler on it and I've never said that before I'm a 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:57.520 huge water cooling Advocate now something to bear in mind is if you do 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:02.879 buy one of these you're going to want to make sure you have an adequate case for 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:06.199 uh for ventilation because a significant amount of the heat that it outputs is 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:10.840 going to go directly into your case towards the front of the case which is 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:13.840 not the natural way that air flow goes through your system you can also look at 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:17.479 redesigning the air flow in your system so you can bring okay so so you guys 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:21.479 Envision this for me okay so you got it installed in your system you can change 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:26.000 your CPU to an intake and then the front to an exhaust which isn't necessarily 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:30.280 ideal in the sense that heat rises etc etc but it may actually help keep things 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:34.599 a little bit cooler and then the rest of it is going to be exhausted out the io 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:37.839 plate out the back of the system I'm not sure what else there is 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:42.880 to say about it so yeah in terms of length it is pretty much exactly the 00:08:39.719 --> 00:08:44.640 same as the GTX 590 it just looks way 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:50.640 more slick I mean check this out they even put a metal piece on the fan just 00:08:47.800 --> 00:08:54.360 because it looks amazing never seen that before but there you go and then it is a 00:08:52.880 --> 00:08:59.440 little bit longer looks to be about an inch longer than the GTX 680 so uh true 00:08:57.560 --> 00:09:03.399 to NVIDIA's form even with their dual GPU cards they try to keep lengths 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:08.920 reasonable without letting them stretch out to be you know 11 in long like the 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:12.839 uh the radon 6990 did I think that pretty much covers it 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:17.760 in terms of performance what can you expect well single GPU performance is 00:09:14.680 --> 00:09:20.000 going to be about you know 95 to 98% of 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:25.320 one of these and dual GPU performance will be about 95 to 98% of two of these 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:29.880 except the key difference is that you got it on one 00:09:26.959 --> 00:09:32.839 card you save a little bit of power and yeah it's expensive but so is two of 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:39.800 these and that doesn't stop people from buying them so there you go thank you for checking out my unboxing and first 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:41.760 look at the gForce GTX 690 which is 00:09:39.800 --> 00:09:45.920 without a doubt the fastest graphics card ever built and I'm going to put a 00:09:43.959 --> 00:09:51.240 little asteris right here at the time of filming this video because as you guys 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:51.240 all know technology is always moving 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:58.880 forward yeah I let you guys down hardcore it has 4 gigs of RAM see I told 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:01.399 you I was tired 2 gigs dedicated per GPU 00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:06.120 which means that you've essentially effectively got 2 gigs of RAM which 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:11.120 should be plenty for triple 1080p but you might not be able to run like the 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:14.959 latest games in triple 2560 x600 or something like that for that I would 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:19.480 probably be looking for like a custom 680 SLI configuration with two 4 gig 00:10:17.640 --> 00:10:27.360 cards just something for you guys to bear in mind so 4 gig card 2 gigs 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.360 per GPU