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G90 is a GX2?! WARNING FUDZILLA!

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Nvidia's next generation high end part will have two PCB cards. The card codenamed D8E or the one that we called G90 – G92 for months will be GX2 like.

We wrote about such a card back in March when our Cuda sources confirmed that Nvidia has such a design in plans.

Desktop 8 series Enthusiast is scheduled for first months of 2008 and will need a lot of power. It is a 65 part, or lets say it will have two chips each 65 nanometre with its own memory. This will bring back the Quad SLI concept in the game.

If you don't trust us, ask Nvidia.
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Intresting news but again is another GX2 what we want? I mean SLi dont work in everything! But then again if it was 2x8800's it would be pretty good! :)
 
Could be good news for people who already have sli 8800 as nvidia may
actually bring out more sli support. Personally i think its the wrong way to
go unless they can't make anything atm with single core that can pull far
ahead of the ultra.
 
seems very strainge to release a high end part for the mass market that doesnt seem to have mass software support, unless nvidia are reworking the sli architecture so as not to need specific support from games to function properly. maybe pcie2.0 has bought this devolopmant, who knows!

if though that was true then i think it would be a blow to exsisting sli users but a great step forword for nvidia and users of future sli products. but like i say im proberbly just blowing hot air.
 
Another gaffer taped together pos? Thought after last times quad sli joke that they would have moved on from this gimmick.

Hopefully its just bs, would have thought they be spending their time doing something useful rather than superglueing 2 cards together and calling it a single card like the 7950's.
 
But didn't the GX2 perform better than the a similar SLI setup? I.e. nearer double the speed as one as opposed to 20-50% faster with to entirely sepearte 7900's
 
It had most of the probs sli has these days. Sometimes it would be slower
than 1 7900 card on its own. Other games where sli was supported it was
the fastest card you could buy. I think quad sli had even more problems
also. Was an even bigger waste of money then buying 2 8800 ultras.
 
Hen_Dawg said:
But didn't the GX2 perform better than the a similar SLI setup? I.e. nearer double the speed as one as opposed to 20-50% faster with to entirely sepearte 7900's
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As far as i remember no it didn't, for one the clocks were slower on the cards.
 
It never rains, just pours.

My m8 hardly gets a boost from his second 8800GTX so I don't rate a dual card set up regardless of the manufacturer. If they can pull something new with it then :D brilliant. If not then :(.
 
Could be good product and it could suck, depends on the heat, power consumption and size and last but not least nvidias SLI support which currently sucks.
 
Probably be more than ok TBH.

It'd be a pretty poor show if more game developers didn't make use of SLi. When i had my GX2 it was simply excellent. If i found a non SLi supported game i could simply select which type of SLi i wanted to use and then test in game to see how it performed.

On the whole SLi worked fine and the performance gave at least a 30% performance increase in all my games. Some got close to 90% which i thought was more than acceptable.

It wasn't excessively hot and functioned happily with both an Enermax 460watt and Tagan 580watt PSU.

I've said this before but the performance increase i saw going to the 8800 range left me with only one card choice at the time. The 8800GTX was the only card that properly beat the GX2. Even the 8800GTS 640mb was too close to the GX2's operformance for me to bother upgrading to.

A sandwiched 8800 could be a darn nice card!

gt
 
My bro has a 7950gx2 in his system and it still runs very well :) obviously still good cards and he aint going to vista anytime soon! Plus a lot mroe titles are supporting SLi! I think if NVidia brought something out which supported SLi again then it can only mean good things for people who have Sli in general :P
 
Well i guess thats how the possible double performance could occur. Though as everybody knows SLI aint 100% effecient.
 
It seems Nvidia's hardware guys have no idea what the software guys are up to. I was under the impression the drivers are still in a bad way.
 
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Interesting if true that probably means one of these cpu's is destined to be the long awaited mobile part 8800M much like the 7950GX2 and 7950 GTX Go :)

Cheers,
Hugest
 
I've had great results from SLI.

It seems most of the people who whine about it are basing there comments on heresay and not experience. As well as a 7950gx2 I had 6800gt's and 7800gtx's in sli and was happy with all of them. If a profile's not written for a particular title you can either force the rendering mode (AFR, SFR etc) in the global settings or make one yourself based on something else, hardly rocket science tbh...if that's too much trouble then use nhancer. It's funny that people think it's not a waste of cash to buy RAID arrays, quad core cpus, 1000w PSU's, low latency ram etc all of which has a far smaller effect on frame rates yet sneer at SLI.
 
I'll be watching this G90 closely. Could work out nicely.

Off topic but Hemlutcheese, you finally got yourself an avatar I see, much better
 
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