Geforce 9800 GX2

[legionaire45]

Kinky Linky. (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48729)

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-03/1199396117RddjtJdk0Z_1_1.jpg
http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-03/1199396117RddjtJdk0Z_1_2.jpg

Oh, and while we're at it:
8800GS (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48223)
9600GT (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48684)

[InnerGoat]

Old news :awesome:

[Xetsuei]

Old news :awesome:


Thursday, January 3 2008

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[LlamaMaster]

Only a 30% increase in performance. :/

[Xetsuei]

Only a 30% increase in performance. :/

SLI does not give you double the performance, it's usually only 30-50% more.

[LlamaMaster]

Xetsuei™;207091']SLI does not give you double the performance, it's usually only 30-50% more.
Which is why I think it's totally gay. Why bother paying twice for something if your only getting a slight boost?

[Cortexian]

Which is why I think it's totally gay. Why bother paying twice for something if your only getting a slight boost?
Because when you're playing Crysis. A slight boost can mean life or death.

[Snowy]

Mmm... two cards nailed together!
Hopefully Nvidia's driver support would be absolutely terrible like it was with the 7950GX2

[Pope]

Only a 30% increase in performance. :/

Better than a kick to the head

[Zeph]

What happened to the awesome card I was expecting? Dont get me wrong, a 30% preformance boost is nice for the first cards of a generation and something I'd be willing to buy, but I was thinking the next card was supposed to have just under three times the processing power of the ones out now. Something like a teraflop of power in a single GPU?

[Bodzilla]

30% wtf?

thats terrible for something that will cost double the price.
Lets see what ATI are doing.

[343guiltymc]

Nvidia won't be introducing new tech for a while from the looks of it, their names for their cards are getting confusing too. :/

[Patrickssj6]

Nvidia won't be introducing new tech for a while from the looks of it, their names for their cards are getting confusing too. :/
I don't really get the ATI names...the Nvidia names are fine. First number defines the series the second number the sub-series and GT/SE/OC define special attributes.

[TheGhost]

Considering that the 8800GTX had a some 100% increase over the 7800GTX, this doesn't seem too fantastic. My early adoption of the 8800GTX was one of the best I've ever made, I think. It's still a fantastic card.

[343guiltymc]

I don't really get the ATI names...the Nvidia names are fine. First number defines the series the second number the sub-series and GT/SE/OC define special attributes.
They are both confusing, why would they make the G92 the same name as the original 8800 GTS? And why would they make a 30 percent improved version of the 8800 GTX and calling it 9800 GTX? Shouldn't it be called 8900 GTX?:confused2: Okay I'm talking more about the numbers than names but still.

[InnerGoat]

What happened to the awesome card I was expecting? Dont get me wrong, a 30% preformance boost is nice for the first cards of a generation and something I'd be willing to buy, but I was thinking the next card was supposed to have just under three times the processing power of the ones out now. Something like a teraflop of power in a single GPU? This is it, the one teraflop card! Its not the king of all cards (9800GTX) though. Its not really a 9-series card at all. :rolleyes:

Hopefully the HD3870X2 will be in good numbers and outsell this crap.


Considering that the 8800GTX had a some 100% increase over the 7800GTX, this doesn't seem too fantastic. My early adoption of the 8800GTX was one of the best I've ever made, I think. It's still a fantastic card.Your 8800GTX is broken if it was only 100% faster than a 7800GTX.

[legionaire45]

This card is basically just 2 8800GTS 512MB cards smashed together with single slot cooling on each one (at least thats what it looks like in the crappy pics). I'm not surprised that it is only 30% more performance. Nvidia really should have just called it the 8800/8850 GX2 instead of making people think that this was actually something new.

I think what Nvidia is doing is taking advantage of the fact that right now they are owning the high end segment. They don't need to release anything based off the core that was supposed to have a teraflop of processing power. I assume they will leave that for G100.

Meanwhile ATI is getting ready to release a product (HD3870 X2) that (IIRC) was supposed to have 1 Teraflop of performance. Correct me if I'm mistaken on that please.

Oh, and once again while we are at it lets just throw a 8800GT with 1 gig of memory and a funky PCB out there (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48773).

Also, 832GB SSD. DO WANT. (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48781)

[343guiltymc]

This card is basically just 2 8800GTS 512MB cards smashed together with single slot cooling on each one (at least thats what it looks like in the crappy pics). I'm not surprised that it is only 30% more performance. Nvidia really should have just called it the 8800/8850 GX2 instead of making people think that this was actually something new.

I think what Nvidia is doing is taking advantage of the fact that right now they are owning the high end segment. They don't need to release anything based off the core that was supposed to have a teraflop of processing power. I assume they will leave that for G100.

Meanwhile ATI is getting ready to release a product (HD3870 X2) that (IIRC) was supposed to have 1 Teraflop of performance. Correct me if I'm mistaken on that please.

Oh, and once again while we are at it lets just throw a 8800GT with 1 gig of memory and a funky PCB out there (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48773).

Also, 832GB SSD. DO WANT. (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48781)
I don't even want to know how much that SSD costs, a 32 GB one costs a lot.

[0m3g4Muff1n987]

Also, 832GB SSD. DO WANT. (http://www.techpowerup.com/?48781)
One guy on there estimated around 25k based on current SSD prices. Of course it'll drop, but it'll still be super fucking expensive until quite a few many years have gone by.

[InnerGoat]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2675780&postcount=84

[InnerGoat]

According to the relevant third party, GeForce 9800GX2 estimated price of 449 US dollars, time for the launch of their products on February 14, slightly late ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 the January 28, NVIDIA such a move a leading opponent from the past at the same level product launch time This still seems to be revealing official AMD as a follow-up action and then decide GeForce 9800GX2 formal listing date.The price is right at least

[bleach]

I thought the Geforce 9800 was supposed to have 1 GB GDDR4 memory.

[InnerGoat]

This is the 9800GX2. Not part of the 9x00 series.


Blame nVidia for the naming confusion.

[343guiltymc]

Couldn't they have named it 8950 GX2? :/

[Patrickssj6]

/blame

[flibitijibibo]

Heh, yeah... I think 8950GX2/GTX/GT Might be more appropriate for this lineup.


If this stuff isn't a bunch of crap, I'm just getting a superclocked 8800GT.