15 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 690 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. All games with system requirements of DirectX 11 or lower are met by this card.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 690. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2020. This graphics hardware can run 498 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 690 performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Mafia: Definitive Edition and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 66 FPS, Medium: 52 FPS, High: 35 FPS and Ultra: 25 FPS. We proceeded to look at Cyberpunk 2077 to see how that compared and predict that it will return a reasonable 48 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

Moving screen sizes up to 1440p we ran Mafia: Definitive Edition on the GeForce GTX 690 to see that it got a weak set of frame rates. Here are the low to ultra results at 1440p - L: 50FPS, M: 40FPS, H: 27FPS, U: 19FPS. Another popular game to investigate at 1440p with this card was Cyberpunk 2077 which we predicted will be playable in performance netting an Ultra FPS of 36 FPS. Finally we then took a look at Microsoft Flight Simulator where its Ultra 1440p Frame rates were playable at 41 FPS. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 690 we get the impression that it is certainly a viable option for these higher gaming resolutions. Remember that if you suffer some 1440p FPS drops the you can usually tweak modern game graphics settings until you get a near High graphics setting experience with this Graphics card.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 690 in your PC? This GeForce GTX 690 card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 690? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 690 then a good choice would be 16 Series GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB as this is better than 830 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 31% better performance as well. Alternatively if you are thinking of upgrading this graphics card then we would currently suggest the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB. This PC hardware upgrade performs 40% better and can run 932 of today’s 1000 most demanding PC games.