GeForce 9800 GX2 reviewer's guide + Benchmarks

ebilcake · 17 Mar 2008 at 01:16

Looks like it's from nvidia, so take with bucket load of salt, but interesting if true.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=249249

Adrianr · 17 Mar 2008 at 01:26

They work out a percentage framerate increase compared with the percentage price increase?

Mud · 17 Mar 2008 at 01:45

Adrianr said:
They work out a percentage framerate increase compared with the percentage price increase?

Yeah, this, plus I wonder what drivers they're running the 3870X2 on. I'm not justifying ATI's current drivers for the 3870X2, but there may be substantial room for improvement (at least their current driver efforts imply as much).

Tom|Nbk · 17 Mar 2008 at 01:55

Get me a container full of salt.

Gerard · 17 Mar 2008 at 02:15

With quad sli we've worked hard to preserve the same benefit

They have? I guess some of the 7950gx2 quad owners will be jumping for joy that their setups now work after 2 years. :eek:

OCOCOC · 17 Mar 2008 at 02:51

Gerard said:
They have? I guess some of the 7950gx2 quad owners will be jumping for joy that their setups now work after 2 years.

Yay, 98GX2 SLI + 790i would be cool~~ killing the Crysis is the ultimate goal;p

-iceblade^ · 17 Mar 2008 at 03:05

just ran crysis at all very high, and tbth, i wasn't impressed... anyways, those benches look way off... notice how much better the card is at PREY?

enough of this pre-release rubbish; lets see some proper reviews...

chaparral · 17 Mar 2008 at 07:08

Two 9800GX2 cards (= 4x 9800 GPU cards) just to get 50fps in crysis at 1920x1200 :rolleyes:

TheMagic1an · 17 Mar 2008 at 07:31

chaparral said:
Two 9800GX2 cards (= 4x 9800 GPU cards) just to get 50fps in crysis at 1920x1200

yeah lol....i wouldn't be going out and buying that for just one game, but some people would, but i suppose it's pretty good for that res tho.

shrek2 · 17 Mar 2008 at 07:45

9800gtx? Where the hell are you.

HeX · 17 Mar 2008 at 08:37

The scaling with 4 GPU's looks terrible.

darkblade · 17 Mar 2008 at 08:58

HeX said:
The scaling with 4 GPU's looks terrible.

Not great maybe, but it is still giving you at least an extra 20fps in most games (apparently)

Aurhinius · 17 Mar 2008 at 09:59

I'd actually like to see a 9800 GX2 Vs Trifire 3870 x2 + 3870 because you could probably get a trifire setup for less than a 9800 GX2. Yes being the fastest single card is nice but if you can beat the performance for less money I know which option I would be going for.

Still nvidia's none SLI on intel boards is hurting themselves badly.

ebilcake · 17 Mar 2008 at 10:22

Aurhinius said:
Still nvidia's none SLI on intel boards is hurting themselves badly.

Agreed, obviously there trying to push there motherboards but I think they would get more from the sales of extra graphics cards from enabling SLI on intel chipsets then limiting SLI to nforce boards only.

HighlandeR · 17 Mar 2008 at 10:32

chaparral said:
Two 9800GX2 cards (= 4x 9800 GPU cards) just to get 50fps in crysis at 1920x1200

While true about that..... but perhaps this tells us the articles benchies and charts are correct

If 9800GX2 is remotely faster then the 3870X2 u can still bet mass card selling on MM it always happens regardless if a new card is due in 2-3 months time!

LoadsaMoney · 17 Mar 2008 at 12:22

GX2 is supposedly only 10-15% faster than the X2.

gurusan · 17 Mar 2008 at 12:26

So how much is this supposed to cost?

ten80p · 17 Mar 2008 at 12:28

VR posted GX2 on 174.51s
Diff in DX10 and also HL2 scores are good
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=250315

ebilcake · 17 Mar 2008 at 12:46

ten80p said:
VR posted GX2 on 174.51s
Diff in DX10 and also HL2 scores are good
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=250315

The increase doesnt seem that good to me, new driver seems to hinder performance in some titles.

ten80p · 17 Mar 2008 at 12:57

Synth tests are same-ish, from what I can see all games are better apart from one at lower res
UT3 & and esp HL2 are better