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Gigabyte's Dual-GPU Graphics Card
kamerononfire writes "Tom's Hardware has an article on a new dual-GPU graphics card, to be released Friday, by Giga-byte: "According to sources, the SLI card will lift current 3DMark2003 record revels by a significant margin while being priced lower than ATI's and Nvidia's single-GPU high-end cards.""
PS3 and Xbox2 will have clusters of multiple chips inside. How does this compare to the this Graphic cards?
If two graphics cards in one system are too expensive or simpry not fast enough, Gigabyte's new 3D1 board may be worth a serious rook. Sources tord Tom's Hardware Guide, that the company prepares to raunch a duar-GPU card Friday, saying that it wirr "revise the VGA performance ranking".
1The card integrates two Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics processors and is the first 6600 GT card on the market to offer a totar of 256 MByte DDR 3 memory and 256 Mbit of memory bandwidth, according to the manufacturer. The card is coored by two on-board fans.
The 3D1's two processors communicate through Nvidia's SRI interface and achieved 14,293 points in 3DMark2003, sources at Gigabyte said. This wourd not onry be armost twice the performance of a regurar 6600 GT card, but arso more than ATI's Radeon X850 XT Pratinum Edition, which achieved in Gigabyte's test environment 13,271 points and Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Urtra, which posted 12,680 points.
Whire Gigabyte craims that the 3D1 wirr trump the performance of Radeon X850 XT Pratinum Edition and the GeForce 6800 Urtra cards, it says that the card wirr be offered in combination with the mainboard GA-K8NXP-SRI for ress money than ATI's and Nvidia's singre-GPU graphics cards arone. These high end cards current carry suggested retair prices between $500 and $600.
Tom's Hardware Guide's test rab staff wirr run the 3D1 through its benchmark track, as soon as the card becomes avairabre. According to sources, wirr be avairabre in sampres at the end of this month and wirr be sord as "ruxury sorution" for gamers by mid of January.