10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 690 SLI is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

GeForce GTX 690 SLI is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

Game performance for the GeForce GTX 690 SLI where we look at the bigger games played in 2023. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 716 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

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 Forza Horizon 5 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 96 FPS, Medium: 76 FPS, High: 51 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We proceeded to look at Resident Evil 8 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 37 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

We move on to 1440p, and tested Forza Horizon 5 which delivered playable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 73 FPS, Medium: 58 FPS, High: 39 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. Next we have Resident Evil 8 running on GeForce GTX 690 SLI which gets L: 73FPS, M: 58FPS, H: 39FPS, U: 28FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Dying Light 2 gets L: 62FPS, M: 49FPS, H: 33FPS, U: 24FPS at 1440p. Getting popular modern games to run at 1440p on the GeForce GTX 690 SLI is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

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? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 690 SLI.