NVidia Readies Dual Chip, Single Chip 9800GX2, 9800GTX and 9800GT - Page 2

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Oh ok, good to know. Thanks for the information. I am now smarterer.

And I have an elevated level of consciousness because I can make the woman swing both ways...AND stare at her tits.

I am 26 by the way, and still enjoy the juvenile excitement of animated boobies.

ATI is not in for it bad, they'll just release a competitive card and nothing will change.

My understanding of the GX2 concept was basically a RAIDed GPU, the machine sees it as one card, but is actually 2 working together. I realize that at some point in the BIOS and system management it will see both, but as far as the interface is concerned, it sends data to one card, gets data back from one card.

I'm waiting for the dudes with deep pockets to post a triple-double pics and benchmarks of this card on the 780i when they hit the marketplace. It's interesting, hopefully it fares better than the 7950gx2's did...

There's a radio in my fingernail... CAR!!!

8800GTS 512mb are dual slot anyway, they can be made singe slot I also expect the ATI dual card will be able to too which will be nice for some.


But really today for most things I cant see how dual slot vrs single lot is a problem if you can afford to buy this card you'll be able to afford a bigger case that can take them.

Don't feel bad, I noticed it too.

Me thinks Nvidia is cheap I do.Easyly they could have gone for gpu shrink like AMD did and push there tech skills farther by single or multi gpu on pcb.I see a smackdown by AMD or at least a serious rumble when R700 shows up

i wouldnt buy a new card til they have a performane boost of over 50% of what i have got at the time had an 8500 gt moved up to a 8800 g92 gts so i'll be sticking with this card for a while yet.

Untill ATi comes out with something that blows Nvidia out of the water, Nvidia is just going to sit on what they have, bump it up little by little and bleed the consumer out of as much money as they can.

I just hope R700 comes and beats the **** out of 9800GX2.

If R700 releases, what will Nvidia have to compete against it? Already the 3870X2 is supposed to compete with the 9800GTX..

Come on , someone who can afford three 9800GTX's clearly doesn't have cash flow problem. If I use my AC during the summer months my electric bill only rises about $30 dollars which is worth it.

[quotemsg=1776518,6,61808]None of that makes sense to me.

#1 - The 8800GTS is Faster than the 8800GTX. How could NVIDIA come out with an 9800GTX that is not any faster than the 8800GTS.

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Where did you get that idea? The GTS is still weaker, even the G92.

Without benchies, all of this is FUD.

yeah i did the same thing, interesting little page though

thinking from a business perspective, nvidias doing the only logical thing. ati really needs to pull together and create a newer architecture OR fix the severe problems with r600 or rv670 (barely any ROPs which KILLED the performance and potential of the beasts..) i hope they can get it together soon, i'd like to buy their products again

I don't think I'll be upgrading my X1950 pro this time round The only exception would be at least a 1%/$ increase in performance, which is the minimum I'll take.

Ill add to this post what I added to the shorter one. What do you guys think about what looks like an optical audio port on the back? Is it really the hybrid graphics/sound card that has been rumored or is it an input for the HDMI? The second options seems fairly uneventful but thats still something not mention in the specs

bump.

This is awesome.

I was SO on the fence regarding my eVga 8800GTS 640, it killed me to buy it. I mean, I had it for quite a while now, so I got alot of gaming out of it, making the wait for an 8800GT not such a good move. BUT, the GT is a sweet pat on the back to the "holdouts". Good job, your patience paid off well guys

BUT this??? WTF!!! I am SO happy I didn't wait!!! This is the FIRST time I ever made a good call not to wait and just buy. This sammich-board hack POS would have never gone into my PC, I mean, all c*ck and no balls! HAHA!!!

I think nVidia slightly under-estimated Ati. I mean, pull out the duct tape and wrap it around 2 8800GT and get 30% more power than an Ultra?? Come on. Ultras are ancient now.

This is going to be a trainwreck. I am going to piss myself laughing when the game sites post the Crysis benchmarks and show the high 30's and no support for a bunch of other titles (no frame increase worth the $$$), then really old games getting 200fps.

What would have been interesting is if it was a sandwich card with 2x1GB for people running huge LCD's, then it would be ok I guess.

Seriously, nVidia, you better do something to get 60frames outta Crysis with SOMETHING, cause we ain't buying your 9x series then.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/dual.html


Jeez..........

i dont even hav a card.....

People like me have been wanting more power for a long time, I can slow down the 8800 GTX with a 19" screen in many games... I play on a CRT screen at 2048x1536.

I would have to see retail prices and real performance figures before I made any decisions, sounds to me like its just rolling out die shrink as a new gpu to me. Looks like Nvidia struck it so lucky with the 8800 design that they just havent been able to make any headway yet... Or they just cant be bothered because ATI is behind and they got no "need" to push the boat out

Cryis will play At Very High Setting at 1920xaabb only on a quad configuration pair up with new Intel CPUs about to arrive, thats about over 2,000 on video cards. Who in the world will spend this much just to play crysis? Anybody know how much this cards will cost? Hopefully when this cards arrives, 8800 gtx prices will drop dramatically, then ill pair up 2 8800 gtx in SLI.

Nvidia already used that design (7950gx2) thus they save a little development costs. In addition, having two GPUs on a single PCB can be a nightmare to develop/manufacture. Usually the PCB needs more layers AND will be longer which are both major cost factors. Additionally if the chips put on that pcb are putting out a lot of heat, it might not be possible to put them on a single pcb without reducing the clockspeeds to keep the card from going supernova.
Given nvdias history with dual cards and looking at their 8800 generation cards, i say they use the dual pcb approach for various reasons.
1. Heat. Two pcbs, while not as good as two seperate cards in sli, provide a larger surface area and should be easier to cool.
2. Cost. If mass produced the single pcb approach, combined with a cooler or lower clocked chip, might be cheaper. That holds only true if it produced in great numbers since the PCB is quite complex and it's size is non-standard. If the card is sold in limited numbers (i'm looking at the GX2 again) then it might be cheaper to use the dual pcb approach. Should the demand skyrocket, they can always create a refresh - that's how nvidia works.

I prefer the single-pcb approach because, to me, it is a cleaner approach. On the other hand i'm using a Pentium D right now (the epitome of glued uglyness) so cost and efficiency play a role too. I think Nvidia will place that card at the very high-end of graphic cards and price it accordingly. The GPUs on those PCB are probably something we've seen already, so basically this card doesn't deserve the 9xxx name as others already noted.

PS: It is dual, not duel.

No it is going both ways look at the feet, you can clearly see it goes both clockwise and anti clockwise.

9800GX2 MSRP is $450. What would the 9800GTX price be? $350?

Not sure what this chick spinning is representing...just hopped on this thread and skipped the first pages..It doesn't seem to follow a pattern, she switches between clockwise and counterclock wise. You can just tell by looking at the hand/hip/leg placement. Not sure what this represents though. It's interesting that it switches between the two with a odd pattern even though it's only 100kb. I don't have much experience with GIF's...But I guess you can set it up to randomly to repeat?..that way it keeps the file size small.