Nvidia’s GeForce GTX690 Dual GPU Card Coming on 28th of April

The much awaited dual GPU, Kepler based video card from Nvidia seems to be coming sooner than expected. 

A downward chronometer is being displayed on Nvidia’s GeForce.com website that says the Kepler twins will see the light of day on April 28th.

The rumored specifications of this dual GPU wonder are as following :

Stream Processors : 2 x 1536

Texture Units :  2 x 128

ROPs :    2 x 32

Core Clock : ~ 700 MHz

Boost Clock : ~ 730MHz

Memory Clock :  6.008GHz GDDR5

Memory Bus Width:  2 x 256-bit

Frame Buffer :    4GB

TDP:    ~ 380 W

Transistor Count : 6 Billion

Manufacturing Process : TSMC 28nm

Launch Price : ~ 799 USD

These specs are rumored all over the internet, but, in our opinion, they are much too conservatory when it comes to the graphics processing unit’s working frequency. A more realistic assumption would be an approximate 900 MHz GPU frequency with a 950 MHz Boost clock.

On the other hand, if the frequencies are so much lower, we shouldn't see a TDP much higher than 300W.

The high efficiency of Nvidia’s new Kepler architecture is again demonstrated by the GTX 690 model that comes to the market very fast, just one month after the launch of the single-GPU version.

We wish Nvidia to get very good scalability with its new multi GPU card as 800 USD is quite a significant amount of money for a gamer to spend and it would be a pity to still see gaming titles that don’t scale up the performance as the buyer expects.

The high power consumption also means that a minimum 650 watts power supply unit is required to power the future system, but we highly recommend at least a 800W model.

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