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Gigabyte's Dual-GPU Graphics Card

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the two-is-one-more-than-one dept.

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.""

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  1. Re:Drivers? by Ianoo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's almost certain that what Gigabyte have done is this:
    • Take the basic single GPU nVidia 6600 PCB
    • Lay down two on the same PCB with two GPUs
    • Link them together with a PCI Express switch
    • Reverse engineer the card bridge that nVidia is selling for SLI and connect whatever control signals are required as traces on the PCB.
    It seems they can do this for a signficantly lower price than you can build two single cards.

    The point is that if nVidia SLI is working under Linux, then this should too.
  2. Doom for Gigabyte! by millisa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bought my dual GPU 3DFx Voodoo5 around this time 4 years ago. . . and then the company was bought, support disappeared, and my fancy video card became worthless even quicker than it should have . . . I don't recollect seeing another 'dual gpu video card that will slay the market' announcement since . . .