Geforce 7900 GTX Duo cards emerge

[maverik-sg1]

The Inq reports:

NVIDIA has one more surprise up its sleeves for CeBIT. You all know that it will really announce its ghost Quad SLI systems. It won't be a Dell feature only; Nvidia will offer this monster to its other customers.

Nvidia plans to introduce 7900 GTX cards with two chips per card. Those cards should fit and work with normal Nforce 4 SLI motherboards. This is Nvidia's well kept secret - at least it was.

Normal Quad SLIs have four different graphic cards, especially designed by Nvidia. This new SLI will let you plug two new cards, each with two GPUs in your Nforce 4 SLI motherboard and it should work.

Those cards will need a lot of power but it will be cool to read a review of such a powerful system. This is definitely going to be a price and performance Bugatti but if you have a million dollar house you can get Quad SLI as well.

MAV's Comments

Well 7900GTX duo sounds brilliant to me, if you can sli em will be even better, better than quad SLI at least

Clearly there is a cost and it's be as much as two 7900GTX's, still an interesting propsal - one the top benchers will no doubt run to to stay top of the pile.

Mav

 

[PHILIP1193]

nice find mate, i think its all about money now adays rarther than what games can handle. When the 6800gt came out it was some thing "NEW" i.e. it had pixel shader 3 and what a lot faster, games are only now starting to be developed with pixel shader 3 options, now the new 7900gtx, weather it be single, sli, dual 7900xt duo's or literal quad sli the games are not going to have any benifit of 4 cards or should i say 4 cores, these cards are going to be powerful and i hope give the x1900xt /xt-x a good run forthe money, like i ahve said in other threads about quad sli, the performance increase is minial after 3 cards but if that extra 100+ points means you can wave your willy in some else's face in terms of benchmarks then im sure as mav has said , one of thetop behncher will have enough money to buy it just to stay on top

Phil

 

[bazx]

there ia a picture of kink and shamino holding the cards @ vr

this is how nvidia will take the orb down

it looks like they will make a few cards for the rich and then sell crap cards to the rest of us

 

[ZaX]

there ia a picture of kink and shamino holding the cards @ vr

...

Linky please, cheers.

 

[Vrykyl]

b-b-b-b-bottleneck!!! nvidia is really starting to annoy me atm...these cards are nothing but a gimmick - the end user with any sense is still better off with a single card - by the time any cpu can let 4 gpu's run at anywhere near full capacity the cards will be long outdated....

its all money making with little real gain for the consumer, and willy waving at ati - noone benefits except nvidia's pockets

Now if these cards were clocked a lot higher or had more pipes id see it as worth while...but apart from a die shrink these are nothing new. If theyd delivered gtx 512's at a reasonable price thered have been no need for this launch at all.

 

[maverik-sg1]

b-b-b-b-bottleneck!!! nvidia is really starting to annoy me atm...these cards are nothing but a gimmick - the end user with any sense is still better off with a single card - by the time any cpu can let 4 gpu's run at anywhere near full capacity the cards will be long outdated....

its all money making with little real gain for the consumer, and willy waving at ati - noone benefits except nvidia's pockets

Now if these cards were clocked a lot higher or had more pipes id see it as worth while...but apart from a die shrink these are nothing new. If theyd delivered gtx 512's at a reasonable price thered have been no need for this launch at all.

I dont disagree.

But, consider this - the die shrink = less power and heat = good news.

Higher clocks = faster

and it's a good clocker (715+ Mhz on air alone = 750Mhz on water).

The ram overclocks like a champ = 1900Mhz ram for everyone??

In short this will be everything the 512MB 7800GTX should have been:

Competitive price

Faster

Cooler

So for anyone not using a 512MB GTX right now - the investment could be a good un

 

[bazx]

but mav now if you want to be up with the top guys you will need quad

there is now going to be 3 levels of benching single,sli 2x core,sli 4x core

this is one of the resons i will only bench single card now

 

[scorchio]

Does anyone now the expected retail of such cards?

 

[maverik-sg1]

but mav now if you want to be up with the top guys you will need quad

there is now going to be 3 levels of benching single,sli 2x core,sli 4x core

this is one of the resons i will only bench single card now

Absolutley right Baz mate,

There is no way a gamer is every gonna need four GPU's to play his favourite games with full eye candy and high resolutions.

Which makes a mockery of the tables as they stand and Futuremark should take note and start creating leagues for different types of user as you mentioned there.

Duo cards will be loved by shuttle users no doubt as they now have the missing link to give them great performance in a small package (great for lans etc.....) or at least thats how I see it being marketed and probably most used.

Mav

Does anyone now the expected retail of such cards?

Expect price to be plus or minus 10% on the cost of 2x 7900GTX mate, which AFAIK will be circa £400 each.

Cheers

Mav

 

[K404]

All of this is for Futuremark. The U.K. gets ripped as it is, the higher-end something is, the bigger the price difference.



Single card for me as well- thats all a game needs, and games are what graphics cards are designed for. I think a few companies need reminding of that.

 

[Baron_Greenback]

what kind of cpu will be able to feed 4 gpu's ?

 

[stocky]

An 4800 X2 or FX60 is probably the best bet at the mo, or those dual socket CPU motherboard configs.

I'm, also going to be staying single card. The only benefit I can see these additional cards being is purely benching. It doesn't seem like many of us will be going for the extreme setup; which will probably have an adverse effect on Team EP-UK's position