Nvidia GTX 695 Quad GPU In The Works [RUMOR]

WCCFTech writes: To think of it, we were just waiting for this to come up. Hartware.net has confirmed reports that an AIB partner of Nvidia had prepped a quad kepler graphics card and showcased it as well behind closed doors.

[ninjahunter]

T_T so much power.

[INehalemEXI]

/drools

[saladthieves]

Damn!...Here I am still rocking my GTX 260 and thinking that it's pure awesomenessnes...It's time for me to upgrade, ain't it?

[megacowdung]

But it is completely unnecessary... Our computer monitors cannot handle the graphics cards nowadays. An nvidia gtx 500 can display 1080p gameplay and run most games fine. So why upgrade to a superpowered graphics card if the monitors now can't even handle the graphics power?

[ninjahunter]

Triple monitor 3D? IDK people will find a way.

[floetry101]

Nvidia's GTX 695 Quad GPU: Because some people want Bugatti Veyron's in their Bugatti Veyron.

[LAWSON72]

Exactly this is for the big rich pc enthusiasts.

[LNDCalling]

http://www.google.co.uk/pro...

lol and @Trinity_ got disagrees for suggesting a GTX695 (quad) would be £1,500 when an existing GTX690 is £850 ($1,300 on current roe).. FAIL!!

For the current price of a GTX690 i could buy 4 or 5 PS3's or 360's (or one console and 46+ games) and that's without the rest of the components needed to make it a gaming rig!

God I never realised how blind my fellow PC gamers have become.. a very very sad state of affairs.. Maybe you should all get out more and stretch your legs (and brains) a little!

[floetry101]

It's not like that at all dude. A lot of people derive satisfaction when they upgrade their PC's because it allows them to tinker and try different things with different games. The people that buy these cards are enthusiasts and don't just use it for visual fidelity. It's like being excited about new cars and comparing the best of the best, except PC gaming doesn't have so much "dick swinging" so-to-speak.

It's hard to describe honestly. I'm big into PC gaming and derive much enjoyment from pushing my card and my games to their limits. With consoles, what you see is what you get, and that ain't bad either. I own a PS3 and 360. There is a place for all of them. Just don't knock what you haven't had experience with.

[LNDCalling]

Now that I will agree with (yes I pushed agree). As the best part of building my own gaming rig from scratch was the satisfaction I got, the sense of achievement from its successful first post and the fine tuning that followed it (my wife can contest to the time I spent tinkering thereafter - no jokes please)..

I even went as far as to create a simple batch file to kill unneeded processes so that games would run better!..

However with a view to GAMING, is that kind of behaviour mainstream so to speak? is Windows in whatever guise, really the best platform for gaming considering the resources wasted in background processes not needed for gaming?

Lets face it, PC gaming requires brute force strength (hardware) where it really isn’t required, because of this developers rely on said hardware rather than fine tuning their code and making the most of what's available. PC are to open a platform in my opinion for it to push developers to look at other ways to make their games better. Consoles on the other hand are designed (in theory) for one purpose,.. GAMING!

I am at heart a techi and there I will stay but 30+ years of gaming have taught me to move with the times else miss out on great gaming oppertunities.. After all isn't that what we are here, (N)ews (4) (G)amers, for!

[ATi_Elite]

There are some people out there who play across 3 or 6 50" 1080p TV's and need a lot of power. These Ultra high end cards provide that power.

Enthusiast PC Gamers who are into Flight and Race simulators have very exotic set-ups. Hell i even play across 3 monitors which is becoming the norm.

You know that cheap "Wired" RC car you had as a kid? Fun for YOU but it was crap compared to the kid's down the street who had a hand built "Gas powered" RC car.

some people have different levels of satisfaction than others. sure Water is good but Ice Water is just so much more refreshing.

[Voxelman]

3 monitors is in no way becoming the norm, it's still a feature for the 1% of PC gamers. And probably always will be, it just takes up too much space and costs too much (monitors plus the hardware to dive them) for 99% of people.

[Plagasx]

Lol, $2500? No thanks.

[Jamaicangmr]

This would be an abomination the Catholic church would be outraged.

[aaaaaaaaa]

I want to see SLI or tri-SLI of these babies, then i bet real-time ray tracing at 1080p@30FPS+ would be on the cards(pun intended)the only problem with that would be no dev would do it for the 20-30 people in the world that has a system like it. Shame.

If money wasn't an issue I wonder if games could look like a bluray film.

[Pain_Killer]

First of all his topic is about PC Hardware, Not PS3/PS4. I won't be judging its performance to current gen PC hardware since its specifications have not yet been revealed so better keep consoles out of this news.

@segamon Previous NVIDIA cards were expensive and its a fact however with the current series, NVIDIA have done some adjustments.

AMD 7970's official price was set at $549 while Kepler GTX 680 was slated at $499. HD7950 was $449 while GTX 670 is $399 and performs at 7970 levels.

Also if you guys didn't knew it by now, Quad GK104 does exist in the form of a server implementation for NVIDIA GeForce Cloud, 16GB memory buffer and a passive cooling design. See attached images for details.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-...

As far as pricing and availability goes, this would be severely limited units and pricing would be around $2500 which is idea for the amount of computational power this thing holds.

This card won't be available to an average PC user, for us GTX 690 already exists which costs $1000 MSRP, I don't want to talk about AMD's 7990 since its not available at the moment, we don't know what kind of performance/price/GPU scaling/Clocks it has so i won't judge it.

AMD did showcase yet again a workstation Firepro dual Tahiti Board at their Japanese conference. The design of 690 is still far too superior than 7990's, You can see pictures here:

http://wccftech.com/amd-sho...

@LNDCalling So tell me are you going to play on all those Xbox's and PS3's at once? Sure that card is expensive and not build for an average gamer but look at what's possible with a single 690. Play on three 3D-Vision displays at 7560x1200 res with any hickups if you can afford it, there's a reason only 1000 units of the card have been produced worldwide.

Also note that a single GTX 680/HD7970/GTX670 are capable enough to run 4K resolution monitors easily. BSN recently did a review and you sure gotta check it out:

http://www.brightsideofnews...

Its quite obvious by now that 3GB on 7970 isn't much of an advantage as we thought earlier since there's only a 3-4 fps margin between it and 680. But still im amazed the performance of single GPU cards.

And for users suggesting its the end of PC and it would eventually see a transition to mobile/tablet devices.

PC aka Personal Computer never existed in a single form. Laptops, Notebooks, PDA's, Data tablets were all there before it which are now either forgotten or replaced by other devices, Desktop has existed since 60's and till now, don't see it getting replaced by cellular devices anytime soon. It will be here forever and will dominate in every field.