[Warning: Fudzilla] Nvidia's D8E dual card needs 220W + D8E prototype up and running

J.D · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:30

Cyber-Mav said:
according to fud the 2900xt still has a higher wattage of 240w. nothing to worry about then i guess:
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3218&Itemid=34

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Cybermav Vs ATI DX10 take 2

Jokester · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:35

Ah well looks like we're going to have to wait until the middle of next year if not later for Nvidia's next gen chip.

Jokester

Rroff · 17 Oct 2007 at 18:50

melbourne720 said:
Game A, supports multi GPU, 60+ fps on a 24" monitor
Game B, doesn't support multi GPU, suddenly it is 25-35 fps and you have a very ordinary card.

To be more correct (tho pedantic)

Game A, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game B, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game C, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game D, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game E, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game F, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game G, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.6x FPS increase
Game H, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.6x FPS increase
Game I, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.2x FPS increase
Game J, Does not gain from SLI

Fortunatly almost every new title in the last 6 months and those in beta that are likely to come out in the next 6 months FULLY support SLI, some needed a profile created/tweaked like TF2 and the UT3Demo but they worked.

Dutch Guy · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:14

The card will need 220W+ to work and a passive two-sided cooler to get rid of the heat

220W of heat and a passive cooler, I guess we are talking about car radiator size to get rid of 220W of heat without a fan.

HighlandeR · 17 Oct 2007 at 22:05

The only thing thats gonna be hot in 2008 is the heatsinks from both ATI/Nvidia.

Kisses my hot 8800GTX/

Greebo · 18 Oct 2007 at 07:26

HighlandeR said:
Kisses my hot 8800GTX/

Hands Highlander some burn cream for his lips

r0cky · 18 Oct 2007 at 11:35

Scougar said:
If it splits the data up better than SLI has been doing in the past, then it will be a good card. If not... oh dear

It would be criminal of them to design a highly integrated card without the ability to load texture data to both chips simultanously. I'm hoping this card appears as a single virtual card but happens to contain two chips.

Although, I must admit, I'm fearful it could just be SLI in one.

Dutch Guy · 18 Oct 2007 at 11:41

r0cky said:
It would be criminal of them to design a highly integrated card without the ability to load texture data to both chips simultanously. I'm hoping this card appears as a single virtual card but happens to contain two chips.

Although, I must admit, I'm fearful it could just be SLI in one.

'They are working hard to get a driver ready' To me that will mean it isn't seen as a single card by Windows but indeed is SLI in one card.

melbourne720 · 18 Oct 2007 at 11:50

Rroff said:
To be more correct (tho pedantic)

Game A, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game B, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game C, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game D, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game E, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game F, Supports multi GPU with approx 2x FPS increase
Game G, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.6x FPS increase
Game H, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.6x FPS increase
Game I, Supports multi GPU with approx 1.2x FPS increase
Game J, Does not gain from SLI

Fortunatly almost every new title in the last 6 months and those in beta that are likely to come out in the next 6 months FULLY support SLI, some needed a profile created/tweaked like TF2 and the UT3Demo but they worked.

<looks at Rroff's sig> You would know I suppose

Arcane · 18 Oct 2007 at 14:18

I thought the 7950GX2 was a great card, (still is) it's hardly rocket science to force the rendering mode or set up a custom profile if the drivers don't have a profile set up for it, don't know what all the negativity towards SLI is...

fornowagain · 6 Nov 2007 at 21:26

WARNING FUD: D8E, Nvidia's new high end comes in Q1

Two chip, probably G92+s

Nvidia told a few holy souls that its new high end card is getting ready for Q1 2008 launch. Nvidia knows it is late for Xmas but it didn't had much options as the new high end was simply not ready for Q4 2007.

The whole new high end codenamed D8E – Enthusiast will have two chips on two PCB's with two huge power connectors. Most of you remember the 7950 GX2 so this will be a similar card. We still have to confirm if the chips on this cards are two G92's but we heavily suspect that Nvidia can enable the eight cluster of this 65nanometre chip and make the current 8800GT chip even faster. If Nvidia does that 8800GT chip will become 8800GTS 512MB, just with a touch of a flash tool.

After all the G92 has more transistors than the G80 which means it has at least the same brute power, faster Shaders and a new Video processors and we are sure that it has eight clusters just as many as G80 has.

Two of these chips should run very fast and we reckon that such a card should be able to beat R680, ATI’s high end scheduled for the same timeframe.

Nvidia also plans a new single chip high end card for mid 2008 codenamed G100 or D9E.

Jokester · 6 Nov 2007 at 21:28

Looks like a Nethalem + G100 for me then next year.

Jokester

gt_junkie · 6 Nov 2007 at 21:29

Arcane said:
I thought the 7950GX2 was a great card, (still is) it's hardly rocket science to force the rendering mode or set up a custom profile if the drivers don't have a profile set up for it, don't know what all the negativity towards SLI is...

Ditto!

gt

simonnance · 6 Nov 2007 at 21:42

melbourne720 said:
<strokes 680i motherboard and smiles at 8800gt x 4 prospect>

The GT only has 1 connector for SLI, so you cant chain them to give tri/quad SLI. Just physicaly imposible, short of shunting the data over the PCI-E bus.

Tri-SLI is planned for a GTX only event at least to start with i think.

Cartho · 6 Nov 2007 at 22:04

I wish companies would just stop making faster and faster cards now, and focus on making smaller, more efficient ones.
This thing is obviously going to be the size of a small lorry, and will clearly need a small fridge running ontop of it to keep it from melting....

TheRealDeal · 6 Nov 2007 at 23:41

Give me faster cards and better looking games any day. Keep the cards at the same speeds and make them small but games won't progress if the speed of the cards stay the same either that or we will be playing slide shows.

mrk · 6 Nov 2007 at 23:53

Greebo said:
Next they will be saying the next gen cards come with a shrubbery

A SHRUBBERY??

Perfect_Chaos · 7 Nov 2007 at 02:48

2 card performance stinks.. where is the single high end card? damnit.

The Asgard · 7 Nov 2007 at 06:36

Arcane said:
I thought the 7950GX2 was a great card, (still is) it's hardly rocket science to force the rendering mode or set up a custom profile if the drivers don't have a profile set up for it, don't know what all the negativity towards SLI is...

Well I have used a GX2 and also used 7900 GTO in SLI on a 680i chipset. SLI is great when it works. I had issues where it would drop out of SLI and just use one card without any indication apart from reduced framerates.

Too much hassle. Great in theory not so good ..............

Dutch Guy · 7 Nov 2007 at 08:36

Cartho said:
I wish companies would just stop making faster and faster cards now, and focus on making smaller, more efficient ones.
This thing is obviously going to be the size of a small lorry, and will clearly need a small fridge running ontop of it to keep it from melting....

....and a direct power feed from a powerplant, maybe this card will have an external powerbrick like the Dual 7800GT card from Asus (IIRC)