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Zotac Designs GeForce GTX 460 X2 Graphics Card

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Zotac is another NVIDIA partner who isn't pleased that the GeForce GTX 480 isn't holding performance leadership, but has the engineering potential to outdo it. Earlier in June, Galaxy showed off a dual Fermi graphics card that makes use of two GF100 graphics processors in the GeForce GTX 465 configuration. Zotac waited for a more mature implementation of the Fermi architecture, found out that the GF104-based GeForce GTX 460 isn't lacking much in performance compared to the GTX 465, with vastly better thermal specifications, and went on to design its latest high-end card, which it now refers to as the Zotac GeForce GTX 460 X2. The card makes use of two GeForce GTX 460 1 GB GPUs in an internal SLI, much like every other dual-GPU NVIDIA card.

The card uses an NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chip to semaphore and broadcast data between the two GPUs, a dual 3+1+1 phase VRM that draws power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors, and display connectivity is relayed to the rear-panel from both the GPUs, that's four dual-link DVI, and one mini-HDMI. What this also means is that with just this one card, you can use the 3D Vision Surround feature, while retaining SLI multi-GPU scaling. If that's not all, there's a SLI connector, which lets you pair this with another card of its kind, for GTX 460 Quad-SLI. Zotac is yet to finalize a cooling solution to suit it best. GF104 could be NVIDIA's easiest route to a dual-GPU graphics card that establishes performance leadership. The GF104 physically has 384 CUDA cores (336 on Zotac's card, since it's in the GTX 460 configuration), and has shown to be capable of high GPU/Shader clock speeds. More details about
Zotac's card are awaited.
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They need a half decent cooler on it, not one of those noisy blower efforts they have on their normal cards.

Something like the Accelero Xtreme.

Price is going to be an important issue.
 
Providing the price isn't extortionate and the cooling solution is good (thinking similar to MSI's cooler on the 5770 Hawk), this could be an excellent card.
 
I doubt this card will see the light of day.
We have seen in the past many such cards attempted ( 5770x2 ) but never mass produced. Nvidia won't allow it. Fastest card for Nvidia is a zontac homebrew?? Nah don't thinks so...
 
I doubt we will see it reach retail here in the UK many of these novelty cards never see the light of day outside of Asia (such as that dual 5770 card that posted here last week).
 
Skyrocket said:
:-) did we just make a same thread?! LoL That was funny :-).
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I know, I posted mine, saw yours and thought for a split second my brain hadn't quite registered correctly with my typing skills.

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That card would work a lot better if it were a two layer PCB design like the stock GTX295's, with that PCB sticking out of the side and having 4 DVI ports at the front it just looks weird.
 
Looks like it's going to be a very good card to compete against the 5970/6990 for multiple monitor set ups.

Personally I find a single PCB more appropriate than a dual PCB card. Installing a water block on a dual PCB card must be a pain in the ass :o
 
Looks good but the n Force 200 bridge chip will probably show a performance hit when playing sly optimised games.

Why is the regular GTX460 so long ? If you cropped this card in half it would make a great SFF card.
 
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Price and release date will be key.

Just seems like this should have been ideal for an earlier launch than what we will see; then again I am not sure that it could have spearheaded a defense against the ATI releases. Interesting either way though.
 
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