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Possible gx2 280?

I like the way Jen-Hsun Huang convieniently forgets about 3DFX actually doing it first back when the 7900 was a gleam in it's designer's eyes, and that ATi don't have to have identical cards.
 
I love how he gets a stab in at Crossfire about it not scaling as well as SLI. My X2 certainly scales better than my GX2 did.

But i'd probably sell the X2 for a card with two 280's on it, that would be a monster, and my single 280 wasn't that much slower than this X2 at 2560x1600.
 
I'm suprised it isn't already just about here given the speed Nvidia has been knocking out cards in recent times. Bring back the days of one major release for each company (Nvidia and ATI) with a refresh after around 6 months later, much better than being bombarded with what seem to be pointless rehashes of the same gen cards with slightly tweaked feature set (ram, clock speed, x2 etc)
 
Typical NVidia - try to rubbish Crossfire just after the X2 arrives and murders the GTX280, claim you're going to do something similar with your "superior" SLI system which in fact is nothing of the sort and is riddled with issues they won't solve, then when the product finally arrives it's nothing more than your usual bolt-two-cards-together-in-a-huge-sandwich bodge rather than a properly engineered single card with two GPUs.

Pathetic.
 
How much will this card cost? I might sell my PC then I might be able to afford one.

Pretty sure the 4870X2 has 100+% scaling in some games too?
 
if you had 2 of these for quad gtx 280, someone might actually be able to play crysis, but then again, no that person wouldn't be able to, having sacrificed their arm to pay for it :(
 
anant_shah94 said:
if you had 2 of these for quad gtx 280, someone might actually be able to play crysis, but then again, no that person wouldn't be able to, having sacrificed their arm to pay for it :(
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GTX280 and GTX280 SLi aswell as 4870 and 4870X2 can play crysis perfectly at 1680x1050.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Typical NVidia - try to rubbish Crossfire just after the X2 arrives and murders the GTX280, claim you're going to do something similar with your "superior" SLI system which in fact is nothing of the sort and is riddled with issues they won't solve, then when the product finally arrives it's nothing more than your usual bolt-two-cards-together-in-a-huge-sandwich bodge rather than a properly engineered single card with two GPUs.

Pathetic.
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I agree Nvidia is simply trying to confuse the situation whilst also trying to dissuade people from purchasing the better AMD cards.
Personally i dont think a gx2 280 will be released or if it is, itll be a pair of 9800GT cards released on the same PCB and marketed as the next killer card from Nvidia.
 
ACESHIGH said:
I agree Nvidia is simply trying to confuse the situation whilst also trying to dissuade people from purchasing the better AMD cards.
Personally i dont think a gx2 280 will be released or if it is, itll be a pair of 9800GT cards released on the same PCB and marketed as the next killer card from Nvidia.
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2x 9800GT cards on the same PCB would be slower than the 9800GX2 since the 9800GT's are rebadged 8800GT's.
 
"Jen-Hsun Huang -- As, you might recall, we were actually the world’s first GX2 and I forget which chip we did it with -- was it 7900? I think it was 7900 we introduced the world’s first GX2. "

Bull, Rage Fury MAXX got there first. I know somebody already said it but I still wanted to correct it.

Also, while this almost certainly will be coming, I doubt we'll see it until 45/40nm, which we're supposed to be seeing parts from some time in early 2009, so realistically this'll probably end up going against the R800... uh... 'big dragon'? :p
 
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