9800 GX2 on Hardocp photos :)

[KillBoY_UK]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQzOSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

[Rroff]

Nothing very useful :S and I bet it changes looks before release...

To be honest it doesn't sound too great to me...

 

[Herojuana]

price?

 

[Darkwave]

Sounds pretty rubbish to be honest.

 

[collisster]

I bet it will look nothing like that when its released

 

[Skeeter]

9800? strange, I always thought that the double GPU cards would come way after the single GPU of the same range. Whats the bet this is an 8800 GX2 design and they have just labeled it as a 9800 on their website as a poor attempt to drum up interest...

 

[Tute]

What are the GPUs? G92 GT or GTS cores? Mobile chips?

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Yawn.

Thanks for posting though.

 

[Minstadave]

"30% faster than an 8800Ultra" must be using G92 based chips would expect more from a new architecture.

 

[HeX]

Yeah that 30% faster than an ultra is totall bobbins.

Even SLi 8800GT's thrash an Ultra.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

if it was not on the H i would not of bothered posting but yes this be better called the 8850 or 8900 rather than 9800

 

[Xenoxide]

9800? strange, I always thought that the double GPU cards would come way after the single GPU of the same range. Whats the bet this is an 8800 GX2 design and they have just labeled it as a 9800 on their website as a poor attempt to drum up interest...

I believe it's just two 8800's strapped together.

 

[Rroff]

My guess is probably a couple of 8800GTS 512Mb with the cores clocked back to 500 or 550MHz... that would have still given much more than 30% better performance than the ultra tho...

 

[Jokester]

My guess is probably a couple of 8800GTS 512Mb with the cores clocked back to 500 or 550MHz... that would have still given much more than 30% better performance than the ultra tho...

Could even be two 9600GTs strapped together.

 

[Gerard]

I don't get why they can't do it on one pcb. 2 pcb's imo just looks like some hurried rush job that was slapped together and then we will have nvidia marketing it as a "single" card. it may have one pci-e interface but 2 pcb's = 2 cards imo.

 

[Rroff]

2 cards gives you better cooling potential...

 

[Gerard]

2 cards gives you better cooling potential...

I would doubt that, its pretty much like having a motherboard with 2 pcie slots sandwiched together with one gpu being starved of cool air.


Hardocp made a big deal out of 2 2900's working together in a mobo like this

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTE4MzM2NjA5Mk5MQlRGOUYyTWRfMV8xM19sLmpwZw==

Will be interesting to see if they make the same kind of fuss with this as the cards will most likely be about as close together.

 

[Typhoon]

So this mean its likely to be 30% faster than an Ultra in SLi supported aps only (and probably slower if they have to wind the clocks down in games that dont handle SLi) or plain 30% faster? Oh and will you need an SLi board even though its only using 1 PCI-E slot?

 

[Heatsinked]

I don't get why they can't do it on one pcb. 2 pcb's imo just looks like some hurried rush job that was slapped together and then we will have nvidia marketing it as a "single" card. it may have one pci-e interface but 2 pcb's = 2 cards imo.

I agree. My old Voodoo 5 had two GPUs on one board. I refuse to believe a similar design cannot be adopted. Seems like a lazy design to me and a way of filling the next-gen gap while they develop new architecture.

 

[SS-89]

hold on it has twice the amount of stream processors and an extra 256mb vram, yet is only 30% faster than an ultra.