22 Jan 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 690 SLI graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games. GeForce GTX 690 SLI is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2021. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 690 SLI runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. In terms of performance against the most demanding games today this graphics card can play 735 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 690 SLI performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Assassins Creed: Valhalla and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 69 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 35 FPS. We proceeded to look at FIFA 21 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a strong 142 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Assassins Creed: Valhalla which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 53 FPS, Medium: 45 FPS, High: 39 FPS and Ultra: 26 FPS. Next we have FIFA 21 running on GeForce GTX 690 SLI which gets L: 244FPS, M: 204FPS, H: 149FPS, U: 109FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War gets L: 117FPS, M: 92FPS, H: 62FPS, U: 44FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 690 SLI running at 1440p is easily capable of pc gaming across these screen resolutions. Turn the game settings up to Ultra at 1440p. This GPU is also capable of running a solid FPS across a lot of games at 4K resolution as well.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 690 SLI graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 690 SLI in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 690 SLI? A suitable upgrade choice for the GeForce GTX 690 SLI is the 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, which is 22% more powerful and can run 811 of the 1000 most demanding PC games beating their recommended requirements. Alternatively a good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce GTX 690 SLI would be the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB which meets 916 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 31% better performance.