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Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - June 6, 2006 2:14 AM

5 comment(s) - last by xpx.. on Jun 6 at 3:37 PM

Monster NVIDIA board gives ATI a run for its money

At Computex, NVIDIA officially lifted the covers on its GeForce 7950GX2 graphics product, which is a dual-board card that sandwiches together two GeForce 7900GX2 GPUs. DailyTech last reported on the hot new flagship board with products popping up from Gigabye and ECS. The board consists of two lower-clocked GPUs placed into SLI mode directly on the board. Users will not require SLI capable motherboards to run the single 7950GX2 because the two boards are joined by a custom 48-lane PCIe link.

Core GPU is clocked at 500MHz officially, with memory clocking in at 600Mhz. Cards will support 1GB of memory and come equipped with two dual-link DVI ports. As we mentioned last time, the boards are targeted at ATI's current X1900XT CrossFire setups. NVIDIA says that HDCP support for high resolution HD video output is integrated into the GPU but again, manufacturers are required to add additional support at the board level.

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2, the world’s fastest graphics card , is available immediately from the Company’s add-in card partners. The GeForce 7950 GX2 performs as much as 72% faster than the leading single-GPU graphics cards on the market today by harnessing the power of two GeForce 7950 graphics processing units (GPUs) on one card.

Announcements were made from all major NVIDIA partners: Albatron, ASUS, BFG, ECS and Gigabyte.

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I thought...

By Trisped on 6/6/2006 3:07:06 PM , Rating: 2

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Users will not require SLI capable motherboards to run the single 7950GX2

I thought it did require an SLI board, even if you used only one card. Maybe that was the older one...

Still, if you need that much power in one card, wait till next gen comes out. They will be faster, cheaper, and use a less energy then the ones we currently have.

This really is a gimmick. If they wanted double the processing power they could have doubled the shaders and other threadable components. Then you would have one card (instead of 2 stuck together) running without latency and bandwidth bottle necks of a multi card setup.

RE: I thought...

By xpx on 6/6/2006 3:37:05 PM , Rating: 2

Read any news? firstly the 7950GX2 consumes less power than the 7900GTX...and secondly next generation cards will more than likely consume 130-300W and probobly require their own PSU.

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+79% isnt bad, but that means ~89% per card?

By Scabies on 6/6/2006 10:38:11 AM , Rating: 2

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by harnessing the power of two GeForce 7950 graphics processing units (GPUs) on one card.

lies, its two cards with a single interface not matter how you slice it, dice it or peel it. Gimmick.
I might be interested in one regardless, since it takes only one PCIx16 slot (but two expansion 'ports' on a case) and doesnt require SLI compatibility, this would be ideal for your lug-along LAN party build.