veedubfreak
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I have a question though. Does this card use enough bandwidth to cap out a pci-e 1 slot. As in, will quad SLI be bottlenecked without going to a 780i board?
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I have a question though. Does this card use enough bandwidth to cap out a pci-e 1 slot. As in, will quad SLI be bottlenecked without going to a 780i board?
Quoting from Dan_D: "Why? Do you think that would honestly make that much difference? The performance differences between Intel and NVIDIA chipset based boards isn't that much and this is especially true when GPU testing. Only at low resolutions would the difference be apparent."
I only wanted to make sure it worked. I had some uncertainty, as did others, about whether the card required an SLI motherboard to function, because that wasn't really clear from the specs or from the previews.
Yo, I think your missing one valid point, and that the 8800GTX/Ultra's have a much wider 384 Bit Buss as compared to 256, and all that Juicey 768 v 512 Megs of VRam that still isn't being utilised optimally. Once you Factor in its ability to stay and Game with anything right now bespeaks wonders of Nvidia's "Things done Right" Philosophy" and I only Look Forward to when the Real Games that Nvidia has been collaborating with Programmers, really start to get optimised. Remember it takes a couple of Y E A R S for Software to really catch up with hardware.
It is the exact same length as an Ultra, 10.5 inches.
Nice review as always. I'm impressed with the numbers and the technology too, as I was with the original GX2 and the X2, but I'm not fond of these types of cards, since they depend too much on driver support, for my taste. I want to see a single GPU card, that can dominate the 8800 GTX. Unfortunately the 9800 GTX doesn't seem to be it.
Although the fastest card on the planet, I don't think this is worth $650. It's true that NVIDIA has no competition, but $100 less would be more appropriate IMO.
lmfao, someone has to say itThat's what she said...
It is SLI on a single card. Why would it require an SLI compatible motherboard? Also the 7950GX2 didn't require an SLI compatible motherboard and this card is the same basic concept but it uses G92 GPUs instead of the ones used by the 7900GT.
The 9800GX2 is more like dual 8800GTs (or dual 9600GTs, for that matter) on a single PCB. The very fact that it includes single-card SLI from the jump (which the 7950GX2 didn't do) enables several truly eyeball-raising possibilities (SLI on AMD chipsets, anyone?). (Yes; I did say *eyeball*, and meant it.) Such innovation has always commanded a higher price tag (and justifiably so, as much as we wish it didn't).
The 9800GX2 is also not the most expensive gaming card on the planet (it actually undercuts the 8800Ultra, for example, though it outperforms it). Yes, it is priced higher than the 8800GTX; however, the dual GPUs (and single-card SLI) put the GX2 in a class all its own among single-card solutions.
[H said:ardOCP]As you can see above, for the first time we have found Anisotropic Filtering to be playable in Crysis using these dual-GPU configurations. We found at least 8X AF to be playable on each video card combination tested here today at 1600x1200.
can the GX2 run 3 monitors by itself?
What? What? What?
9800GX2 = dual 9600GTs?
SLI on AMD chipset?
Single PCB?
A 790i would be $350 and another 8800GT would be $200 (at least) so $550 to get 9800GX2 type performance with a non-sli mobo.
So I don't see some magical way to get these numbers a whole lot cheaper.
History repeats, [H] also thought the 7950 GX2 was totally bitching awesome, we all know how well that turned out.
http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA4MywxNywsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=
Apart from driver issues, the 7950 GX2 was made totally redundant by the 8800 series within months. Same thing is going to happen in 4 months time.
Introduction
This is not the first time NVIDIA has produced a dual-GPU on a single PCB (printed circuit board.)
That's what she said...
Though we did not experience the water bug with the XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 like we do with the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, we did experience another odd performance phenomenon.
And you know this, how? What motivation does NVIDIA have to really push the envelope? ATI's newest products can barely keep up with NVIDIA's 2006 product line. There is no motivation for NVIDIA to push things, they're just getting as much money as they can out of their current technology.
same thing happened in gears of war min fps of both dual gpu cards was 3 thats why i am going to get gtxFirst, great review, the only one I need to read about this card.
But this card is not for me, I dislike SLI-bugs
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ3NSw1LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
I will not be at the mercy of SLI/Crossfire bugs...waiting for the REAL next generation from either ATi/NVIDIA...so even if NVIDIA is targeting none-SLI-Mobo owners...this guy is not falling for it.