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The First Quad SLI Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oggle-drool-drool-oggle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "X-bit labs have a preview of NVIDIA's Quad SLI system based on two GeForce 7900 GX2 cards. On each GeForce 7900 GX2 is allocated 512 MB of on-board memory, which is connected through a special bridge chip with 16X PCIe lanes to the other daughter card and the system. The two GPUs on the card work in SLI mode. The core and memory are clocked lower than a single GPU card at 550 MHz and 1.2GHz (DDR). For Quad SLI, NVIDIA has introduced a new mode of SLI, AFR of SFR where each card alternately renders a frame split between the two GPUs of one card after the other. The GX2 cards are benched (when possible) at resolution of 2560 by 1600 with 32X SLI AA and compared to a Crossfire x1900 XTX system on a variety of games."

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  1. HTIALOA by yogikoudou · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell That Is A Lot Of Acronyms

  2. When two is not enough... by andytrevino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck Everything, We're Doing FOUR Graphics Cards

    1. Re:When two is not enough... by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

      From the Onion article, February 2004:

      Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me--the second strip lathers. It's a whole new way to think about shaving. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge--the razor's edge--and I feel like dancing.

      From CNN, September 2005:

      Gillette has escalated the razor wars yet again, unveiling a new line of razors on Wednesday with five blades and a lubricating strip on both the front and back.

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      Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
  3. Old news... by suv4x4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who cares about quad SLI, gimme the octet SLI, I just sold my house and I'm ready to buy one.

  4. Re:X-bit found a tit on that one, no? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It's worth reading all the pages just because of how hilariously bad they're written.
    But is the first implementation of the quad SLI really brings extreme speeds and quality? Let's find out together!

    BTW use the print version, one page + no ads.
  5. Re:X-bit found a tit on that one, no? by EmoryBrighton · · Score: 1, Funny
    Twenty-seven pages? Gimme a fucking break. Think they're milking it a touch?

    here's everything in one page:
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/print/gefor ce7900-quad-sli.html

    Read this somewhere:

    They like to have a lot of pages so they .. ...NEXT PAGE...
    can show a lot more ads and increase thir pageviews ...NEXT PAGE...
    But the joke is on them really ...NEXT PAGE...
    Because most of us block ads anyway
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    Rule 2: Writing a spec is like writing code for a brain to execute.
  6. Re:What's the freakin' point? by pnaro · · Score: 2, Funny

    So he can run Aero when Vista ships?

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    If we can't fix it, we'll fix it so nobody else can!