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9800 GX2 Cebit Pics.

Dont like how you can compare a Crossfire 3870 to a single 3870X2 and 2 x 8800GT SLi to a GX2. It's like comparing apples to pears, it's total nonsense tbh.
 
Final8y said:
9600GT SLi is kicking aasss tho.
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in the selected benchmarks:D.

In all probability the GX2 will be slightly faster in most benchmarks and a little more expensive. ATI will no doubt have the advantage of better power consumpsion so there will probably be a nats nadgers difference between them once all things are considered.
 
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easyrider said:
and at a cost of over 200 I would rather have a x2
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Once again, easyrider rides way past the point to his place in presumption-ville!

If you read properly, the 9600 SLI example is used to show that nVidia are improving the SLI scaling, which bodes well for other 9 series cards. Its not listed as an alternative to an X2 or a GX2!
 
Waste of time this card tbh, anyone with more money than sense will buy it though ;)

as said anyone upgrading would be better buying 2 seperate cards, beats the 3870x2 & 8800 Ultra by a good amount

thats all you want really, plus its cheap.
 
Skeeter said:
If you run SLI on 2 cards, then the mobo etc comes into play, and as far as im aware the second PCIe port doesnt run at full 16x. If you have 2 cards in 1 slot using an onboard chip to comunicate between them, the mobo doesnt come into play.
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I think you've got your wires crossed here, this card will be running 2 cards over one PCI-e x16 slot, and if you go for two of these thats 4 GPU's over 2 x16 slots.

Most new SLi motherboards these days have 2 x16 slots, I know my CrossHair does.

If i was to seperate the two cards to the two slots on the motherboard doesnt that theoretically double the bandwidth between the system and the graphics?

e.g.

single card GPU X2 has 50Gbps transfer on one slot

two cards GPU X2 has 100Gbps transfer over two slots

(Please note that is an example not a fact)
 
I dont see how people think this card is going to totally destroy the competition, for starters, look at the X2, is it better than 2x 3870XT in crossfire? Nope not in everything, and the 8800GX2, woops 9800GX2... Is going to use SLi, and each core is a G92 GTS core with 512mb of ram, 256bit interface in SLi,
Its not hard to know this card is going to be overpriced for what it does and IMO the 3870X2 will be better for its price if the 9800GX2 hits £400, I dont care if this is not fact, because from every single source we have seen to date, the 9800GX2 is just 2x 8800GTS 512mb slapped together with a special cooler inbetween, and if you have an SLi mobo, getting 2x 8800GTS 512mb for cheaper than a 9800GX2 will yield similar or better results, its not fact, but no one will be surprised if its all true. I dont think everyone believed that the 9600GT was going to be an 8800GT with a load of shaders gone and a few added bits here and there.
 
Am awaiting proper benchmarks from the reputable review sites with a final product using latest drivers
Interesting that XbitLabs have a review of a GTS-512 after overclocking it beats an Ultra in most games even at 1920x1280 with 4AA/16AF.
If the GX2 is effectively 2xGTS's then surely it's gonna be much quicker than some of the early "quick tests" have implied
 
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