Whichever way you look at it, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 is, quite simply, the world's fastest graphics card.
It's a ferocious beast designed primarily to satiate the needs of die-hard gamers with big wallets and even bigger appetites. We're talking the best part of 100 frames per second in DX11 titles such as Batman: Arkham City without so much as breaking a sweat.
The card has a pair of big cojones, there's no doubt about that, but is it all things to all men? As much as NVIDIA would want to convince you otherwise, no product is perfect and the dizzying £850+ price tag is a major bone of contention. And there's also a small matter of available games - is there anything out there right now that's so gobsmackingly beautiful that it cries out for this much muscle? Or is a GTX 690 wasted amid a sea of PC games that are, in most cases, little more than console ports?
Begs the question, would you have done it differently? Is a 2GB frame buffer per GPU shortsighted? Will a card as extreme as this serve only to make high-end PC gaming a niche past time? Or has NVIDIA hit the nail on the head with a truly top-notch solution? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
