The 9800GX2 is back!

straxusii · 20 Jan 2010 at 06:12

http://vr-zone.com/forums/543931/the-world-s-first-dual-core-gts250.html

kylew · 20 Jan 2010 at 06:50

G92 again.

They really must have a warehouse full to the top of these.

At least it's not a straight out and out rebrand, looks like it's genuinely a new card, only using G92.

I'm guessing this is a Galaxy only type of thing rather than an nVidia official product?

mathwat · 20 Jan 2010 at 06:50

Bit of a waste of time bringing that out. the cost? probably more than the 5870.. plus only Directx 10.0.

So who's going to buy one? Probably the one who bought the Mars edition card

AMG · 20 Jan 2010 at 06:52

what, why ???

kylew · 20 Jan 2010 at 07:31

mathwat said:
Bit of a waste of time bringing that out. the cost? probably more than the 5870.. plus only Directx 10.0.

So who's going to buy one? Probably the one who bought the Mars edition card

Yeah, the cost will be an issue definitely.

I can't see them being able to price it well enough to make it an attractive purchase.

It'd have to be <£150 really considering a GTX275 would provide around the same amount of games performance.

mathwat · 20 Jan 2010 at 07:37

kylew said:
It'd have to be <£150 really.

I really can't see it being sub £150 unless they make a huge loss.

straxusii · 20 Jan 2010 at 08:02

I can see it now - the GTS350

mathwat · 20 Jan 2010 at 08:12

straxusii said:
I can see it now - the GTS350

bobert50 · 20 Jan 2010 at 10:57

straxusii said:
I can see it now - the GTS350

How funny would this be

bobert50 · 20 Jan 2010 at 10:58

mathwat said:

Finally you've stop putting mathwat at the bottom of your txt like a special needs person !

'Wes · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:02

bobert50 said:
Finally you've stop putting mathwat at the bottom of your txt like a special needs person !

mathwat said:
mathwat

bobert50 · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:02

lol are you tricking me or what? it didn't come up for me!!

mathwat · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:03

bobert50 said:
Finally you've stop putting mathwat at the bottom of your txt like a special needs person !

i have a special needs daughter so shut it ok :mad:

Mr Paul · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:35

Foot..in...mouth

gurusan · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:36

Would be nice if they were 40nm

Meaker · 20 Jan 2010 at 14:45

kylew said:
Yeah, the cost will be an issue definitely.

I can't see them being able to price it well enough to make it an attractive purchase.

It'd have to be <£150 really considering a GTX275 would provide around the same amount of games performance.

I thought the original GX2 was 280-285 level of performance.

Tom|Nbk · 20 Jan 2010 at 14:59

FFS when willl it die

'Wes · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:04

Tom|Nbk said:
FFS when willl it die

Lol.

LoadsaMoney · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:05

Lightnix · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:05

kylew said:
Yeah, the cost will be an issue definitely.

I can't see them being able to price it well enough to make it an attractive purchase.

It'd have to be <£150 really considering a GTX275 would provide around the same amount of games performance.

If the clock speeds are willing, it should be a bit faster than a GTX 285 overall - I dare say even as fast as the 5850, although obviously with some drawbacks. I like how they've somehow engineered it bigger than the GTX 295 single PCB, despite having a far less complex core and bus to accommodate.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gf-gts250-sli_15.html

Although it would've been nice if perhaps they chose another core for crying out loud. I think a GT 240 X2 would've been kind of an interesting product, compared to this at least. Then again I don't expect they intend to sell these in any real numbers, I think they're just for show, kind of like that GTX 260+ Razor.