D8E aka 8950GX2
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Hatman
September 25, 2007 3:11:41 PM
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta...
Early 2008, GX2 like
Nvidia's next generation high end part
will have two PCB cards. The card codenamed D8E or the one that we
called G90 %u2013 G92 for months will be GX2 like.
We wrote about such a card back in
March when our Cuda sources confirmed that Nvidia has such a design
in plans.
Desktop 8 series Enthusiast is
scheduled for first months of 2008 and will need a lot of power. It is
a 65 part, or lets say it will have two chips each 65 nanometre with its
own memory. This will bring back the Quad SLI concept in the game.
If you don't trust us, ask Nvidia.
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I dont care if you dont trust Fud, I want this to be true so much im going to trust them blindly.
Early 2008, GX2 like
Nvidia's next generation high end part
will have two PCB cards. The card codenamed D8E or the one that we
called G90 %u2013 G92 for months will be GX2 like.
We wrote about such a card back in
March when our Cuda sources confirmed that Nvidia has such a design
in plans.
Desktop 8 series Enthusiast is
scheduled for first months of 2008 and will need a lot of power. It is
a 65 part, or lets say it will have two chips each 65 nanometre with its
own memory. This will bring back the Quad SLI concept in the game.
If you don't trust us, ask Nvidia.
---------------
I dont care if you dont trust Fud, I want this to be true so much im going to trust them blindly.
More about : d8e aka 8950gx2
Nice. Combine it with this:
http://www.dailytech.com/More+NVIDIA+SLI+Chipsets+Around+the+Corner/article9036.htm
and it looks like a system is possible with the equivalent of SIX 8800 GTX cards.
http://www.dailytech.com/More+NVIDIA+SLI+Chipsets+Around+the+Corner/article9036.htm
and it looks like a system is possible with the equivalent of SIX 8800 GTX cards.
lostandwandering
September 25, 2007 3:49:21 PM
aevm said:
Nice. Combine it with this:http://www.dailytech.com/More+NVIDIA+SLI+Chipsets+Around+the+Corner/article9036.htm
and it looks like a system is possible with the equivalent of SIX 8800 GTX cards.
*falls over in chair as smoke starts to poor out of ears*
spuddyt
September 25, 2007 4:20:28 PM
Hatman
September 25, 2007 5:16:15 PM
Why's that? It was always announed theyd havea dual card which mysteriously disapeared. Its 65nm so its completly possible, may not be dual GTX's but hopefully it is with each clocked down a bit.
But seriously they did it for their 7series and the only problem was something that is not FIXED in DX10. So theoretically it should all rock. For quad SLI you could have 2x2 or 4x1. Nice choice.
Maziar you dont have to post or even visit the forum if you dont want too.
But seriously they did it for their 7series and the only problem was something that is not FIXED in DX10. So theoretically it should all rock. For quad SLI you could have 2x2 or 4x1. Nice choice.
Maziar you dont have to post or even visit the forum if you dont want too.
spuddyt
September 25, 2007 7:41:16 PM
Hatman
September 25, 2007 8:18:09 PM
T8RR8R
September 25, 2007 9:04:02 PM
not that it makes alot of sense to me at this point, but I think you'll find that in the near future(1-2 years) you'll see Ati and Nvidia come out with dual and quad core GPU's. I'm not talking 2-4 GPU's per card, I'm talking 2-4 GPU's per chip. Ya never know though, things are moving so fast lately and there could be alot of curve balls.
pchoi04
September 25, 2007 9:28:45 PM
Hatman
September 25, 2007 10:43:03 PM
T8RR8R
September 25, 2007 10:46:29 PM
justinmcg67
September 25, 2007 11:07:08 PM
maverick7
September 26, 2007 12:21:26 AM
Hatman
September 26, 2007 6:11:08 AM
Dudeson
September 26, 2007 6:42:25 AM
maverick7
September 26, 2007 7:00:58 AM
I'd avoid the 8950GX2 like the plague. The 7950GX2 had awful support, a large number of people were only able to use one core because their mobo didn't support some obscure PCI-X feature or they wanted to run multi-monitor. The whole GX2 series is about Nvidia posting good benchmarks for marketing, they abandon them once the new real top level cards comes out.
I hope they prove me wrong.
I hope they prove me wrong.
Hatman
September 26, 2007 3:44:49 PM
MagicPants said:
I'd avoid the 8950GX2 like the plague. The 7950GX2 had awful support, a large number of people were only able to use one core because their mobo didn't support some obscure PCI-X feature or they wanted to run multi-monitor. The whole GX2 series is about Nvidia posting good benchmarks for marketing, they abandon them once the new real top level cards comes out.I hope they prove me wrong.
Well thats a load of rubbish, 7950gx2 QUAD sli is what you're reffering too. 7950GX2 competed in SLI just as well as any 2 seperate cards did, check tomshardware benches if you dont believe me.
But im pretty sure the problem with QUAD was that you could only set the amount of frames rendered in advance to a certin amount, which is solved with DX10, atleast this is one problem.
Which is why quad sli worked quite good with opengl games I think..
maverick7 said:
quad is 4, so how is it equivalent to 6? and how is SLi not working properly?? sure it doesnt work perfectly but it does work to a degree, it is definitely not broken in the sense of it being totally pointless.Umm, I came up with the 6. The DailyTech article I linked said the 780i chipset will have 3 PCi-E 16x slots, so you can theoretically put 3 of these dual-GPU monsters in there. Of course, I wouldn't call it quad.
If this ever comes to exist it will probably require watercooling.
Mati87
September 26, 2007 8:21:20 PM
Hatman
September 26, 2007 8:58:28 PM
Hatman said:
Well thats a load of rubbish, 7950gx2 QUAD sli is what you're reffering too. 7950GX2 competed in SLI just as well as any 2 seperate cards did, check tomshardware benches if you dont believe me.But im pretty sure the problem with QUAD was that you could only set the amount of frames rendered in advance to a certin amount, which is solved with DX10, atleast this is one problem.
Which is why quad sli worked quite good with opengl games I think..
Most of the problems with the 7950GX2 were because it was out when the core 2 first launched. There weren't any motherboards that you could get a GX2 and core 2 running on correctly for a few months. Basically you had to have an Nvidia MB for it to work right. Sure Tom's benchmarks show the GX2 cards as being great because they know how to set them up right, but many users who bought them were stuck with the equivalent of a 7950pro because of these issues. Search the forums for questions about "Why does my GX2 perform at half speed?" there are more than a few.
I'm not referring to Quad, people with single cards had these issues because the GX2 requires a certain type of feature on your MB to work right (PCI-X switching?). A single 7950 is fast enough where people who just bought the GX2 based on price wouldn't know the difference. I would never recommend this card to a friend.
Hatman
September 27, 2007 4:25:28 PM
Well, we'll see what QUAD Sli does. Even if this doesnt exist quad sli will still be there with motherboards with 4pci-e slots, same with Xfire.
Fudzilla just said itll be out in early Q1 2008. Kinda hope they are right, but TBH I was hoping for a 65nm 8800gtx/ultra rather then a dual card, this'll probably be like $800 - $1200, completly unaffordable.
Fudzilla just said itll be out in early Q1 2008. Kinda hope they are right, but TBH I was hoping for a 65nm 8800gtx/ultra rather then a dual card, this'll probably be like $800 - $1200, completly unaffordable.
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Thats right down from 90nm lols.