Dual GPU from Gigabyte

[priyajeet]

Now where does this fit in. Is the a manufacturer only kinda card ? Or is Nvidia promoting the fact of Dual GPUs.
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"The card integrates two Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics processors and is the first 6600 GT card on the market to offer a total of 256 MByte DDR 3 memory and 256 Mbit of memory bandwidth, according to the manufacturer. The card is cooled by two on-board fans."

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[splenda20]

That is messed up!!!
Is that for real???

Why use 6600GT's???

I'm not sure what to make of this.
Since when can Gigabyte do this?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Using the GF6600GT gives you cost per chip savings, and 2 GF6800s would likely melt the board.

Gigabyte could always do this (remember they also make the passive GF6800), just like Sapphire made the R9800PROMAXX.

They likley got nV's help too, but it's not uncommon.


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[aLawLz187]

it looks pretty interesting, especially because its just two 6600gt's combined on a pcb connected by sli... on one board? i would think they would just make a different transfer technique, unless im confused it seems kind of weird that they would connect two gpu's via sli when they are on the same board?

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[cleeve]

Yeah, the fact that they use SLI-compatible GPUs would kind of indicate that they are running a virtual SLI setup within the card itself.

Nifty idea, sure didn't take them long to come up with it.

Wonder what it'll cost...

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[splenda20]

They said it would cost less than the X850XT and 6800Ultra!

Imagine two of these in SLI, that would be 4 GPUs!!!!

 

[fishmahn]

I would think they'd have to come up with both a new technique and drivers to do it. Does Gigabyte have driver technicians capable of that? Maybe. How long would it take to create Gigabyte-onboard-SLI? Saves lots of time using something that's already been designed.

Mike.

 

[priyajeet]

Arent they already in SLI ?
It makes kinda sense. In this case they will use one PCIe x16 slot compared to teo x8 slots when using a 2 card SLI. And PCIe having lanes rather than a single shared bus, its working pretty parallel, I mean as parallel as two card SLI.

EDIT: on second thoughts, not that much parallel. i might be wrong above. The two x8 will have totally different lanes compared to 1 x16.

EDIT2: Ok, can this case be possible with PCIe - say you have two GPUs sitting on 1 card and both in SLI. Can one GPU use only 8 lanes out of the total 16, while the second GPU use the remaining 8 ? If this is possible, then we have two x8 SLI running from just 1 x16 slot. Who will need two cards anyway ?

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[pauldh]

Odd how it far outperforms what we have seen from 2 - 6600GT's in SLI. At least believing PR and going by 3dMark03.


So, ATI is supposed to mess with it's own SLI in 2005. Also, talks of dual ATI GPU's are always swirling around as a possibility. Imagine 2- X800Xl's on one PCB! X800XL -MAXX. That could be simply amazing, although not sure if possible.


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[KCjoker]

Wow, Gigabyte has a winner with that for sure. Won't be long before other companies follow their lead.

 

[Crashman]

It's SLI on a card. This is the solution I proposed for ATI in order to combat nVidia's SLI. The shorter pathways allow for increased SLI performance over the traditional links.

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Well it would depend on what the card and chip support. If it can run at 4x per chip or 8x per card running on the 16xslot. Then two cards being force-fed only 8x each (by the SLI bridge on the mobo) could allow for 2 of these cards to work in tandem. but it depend alot on the restrictions of the arhitecture.


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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Does Gigabyte have driver technicians capable of that?

Well they have had their own tweaking tools for many years and that requires a teams of driver experts (however limited) so the structure is there for a driver team, depends on the talent it's stocked with.


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