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Metro 2033 puts you right in the middle of post apocalyptic Moscow, battling Mutants, rivals and ratio-active fallout. The game is very graphics intensive and utilizes DX11 technology, making it a good measure of how the latest generation of graphics cards perform under the latest standard.
The Top graph reflects our results at 1920x1080, while the lower graph reflects our results Eyefinity and Surround results at 5760x1080.
Even though Metro 2033 has been on the market for quite some time, it is still one of the toughest games on hardware in terms of graphical horsepower required. So the fact that the GTX 690 was able to run it above 110FPS, even at 1080p, is impressive. If we look at the comparisons to its closest competitors, the GTX 690 is 53%, 44% and 17% faster than the GTX 680, GTX 590 and HD 6990, respectively.
The GTX 690 did an impressive job in this benchmark at 5760x1080. There aren't many cards on the market that can run Metro 2033 above 40FPS at this resolution, so the GTX 690 is definitely in a league of its own when playing games at such a high resolution, with all the in-game settings at high.
Seems too good to be true TBH... I expect Nvidia to have put a catch in somewhere, such as a massive price. How it manages to stay that cool though, even on referecne design which means that when companies start to experiment with cooler layouts, the drop in temp will be even more impressive. Power requirements are too bad either. $1000 is £618, but since that is only about 150 more than what a 680 costs, that is where it seems to good to be true. With it being Britain I'd expect to see another £100-£200 to be added to that.
That LED, whilst having no added functionality to it, makes it look awesome.
EDIT:
As I expected. £809.99, puts it at $1300.
to be honest, id rather dual 680s. if the 690 is priced at 1000, then two 500 dollar 680s would be better.
and nvidia and their aa... gotta love em.
im excited to see txaa in person, since screenshots dont often do justice (fxaa looks good in zoomed-in pictures, but when you play the game itself w/ fxaa its all blurry