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NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2 Benchmarks
An anonymous reader writes "On June 6, NVIDIA will launch what it calls 'the fastest single graphics card' on the planet, capable of running 40% faster than the current GeForce 7900GTX. Dailytech has benchmarks and specifications of the card already." From the Dailytech article: "GeForce 7950GX2 takes two GeForce 7900GTX boards, and joins them via 32 PCIe lanes. 16 additional lanes are routed to the motherboard out to the PCIe adaptor. The GeForce 7900GX2 was designed specifically for OEM system builds and as a result nothing was compromised for performance. However, GeForce 7950GX2 is designed to be the retail component, and as such a few things needed tweaking for retail sales."
Man, you really have to wonder how infinitely close to 8000 that number will go, accompanied with all those wacky suffices. Sigh...
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...made out of two graphics cards?
o_O
The thing that I find interesting is that they've basically got two 7900 GTXes, which are still retailing for nearly $500 in a $600 package. High margins much?
'the fastest single graphics card' on the planet
My god, this is so unprecedented.
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I'm still happily using my Geforce2 MX/MX400 64MB!
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Why should I go spending ridiculous amounts of money (more than my PC cost) just for some silly games, especially since it's like pulling teeth to get current higher-end GPUs supported under anything but MS operating systems?
It seems to be much more economical to simply play games on a console, especially since it seems that many media/game/other content providers insist on the newer cards simply for the DRM enforcement.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer gaming on a PC compared to a game console, but not anywhere near enough to sink that much cash into a GPU, nor add all the DRM that seems increasingly to be required to play current generation games on a PC.
Guess I'll stick to my old games and GPU that still work very well, thankyou. For the money saved alone, I could buy a nice guitar (or 2!).
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This card goes up to 11!!
There have been a lot of leaks lately too; I think its a game that ATI and NVIDIA play well- Allow someone to leak "Official" documents for a few hours to stir up hype and then create a scene by forcing them to take it down and act like they never knew the info was missing. That causes eveybody to wonder whats the big secret. There's no secret because on one website their is a guy taking the card apart but I cant remember where I saw this but I did see this I'll keep looking and when I find I'll post the link
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I think its great that NVIDIA has created that 'fastest consumer card on the market', but really, who the heck needs a card like that? I am using a connect3d ATI card, and it hasn't slipped up once, even with the video editing and gaming that I do. Even with the most demanding games, nobody needs a card this fast.
nobody except nvidia and the employees and stock holders. Nvidia could just go "oh well, we hit the top of the line,what we have is plenty good enough for human eyeballs now and for the far away future, guess we'll close up shop and go home now". That means they would have to all go out and look for jobs-with companies doing the same exact thing, coming out with new products they can sell so they can stay working.
It's the nature of the beast, we live in a society where you need to "keep making money" in order to live, more or less, and that seems to have evolved around manufacturing, sales, throw the old away, lather rinse repeat.
Unfortunately, I don't know a way around this system until we come up with the universal anything-goes replicator that can take any input and output anything you want.
Let them ship quad-slot zillion transistors sli whatchamacallit kilowatt-sucking video cards. They drive down the price of decent cards that can play todays games at mediam quality for less than 200$.
I can play oblivion on medium quality with my 6600gt, 768mb, athlon64 3400 rig.
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i've been very curious about the current level of built in graphics on the motherboard. turns out my PCI 5700 LE (yes, i said old school PCI card, not pci express) beats an onboard pci express nvidia 6150!!! and that 5700 LE is a crippled version of a regular 5700 even.
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... they make a video card that can run with my 350w PSU that only has one PCIe x16 port. Also, I'd prefer if it doesn't sound like a 747 or DC-10 starting up.
7900GT: 500MHz core, 256MB @ ~600MHz memory. $280
7950GX2: 500MHz core, 1024MB @ 600MHz memory $600
7900GTX: 650MHz core, 512MB @ 800MHz memory $500
It's not two 7900GTXs, it's a pair of 7900GTs with extra memory, coming out of the same quality of chip yield, not the one-in-however-many GPUs that can be stably clocked up to GTX levels.
Plus, the lower clock means much lower cooling requirements and power consumption, with corresponding cost reduction.
Not a bad idea, really.
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Jesus, you think a new graphics card is a waste of money but you want TWO guitars. In addition to your existing guitar(s)?
If you're upgrading from a GF2 you can buy the cheapest out there and still have a huge improvement (assuming you ever play anything 3D accelerated). Spend about as much as a second hand gamecube, and you won't have to pay a dime for games - lots of OSS or demo games to play on your PC unlike on those locked-down consoles.
Slight improvements or in this case putting two of the same gpu's in one pcb is still in the same generation. Their number scheme actually makes sense once your used to it at least. The naming scheme, GEFORCE ULTRA XTX ZERO or whatever the hell each individual pcb manufacturer decides to come up with is a different story.
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Their's tons of budget pci-x 16 slots that use smaller coolers and use tons less power.
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I would instead recommend the Radeon R200 series cards for "non MS operating systems." In order of performance from greatest to least:
-- two texture units (faster 3D)
FireGL 8800
FireGL 8700
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9100
-- one texture unit (slower 3D)
Radeon 9000
Radeon 9200
Radeon 9250
These are fine cards for light gaming and have the added advantage of open source 3D Linux drivers with hardware acceleration. Unfortunately ATI did not open up the specs for open source developers to create accelerated drivers for cards after the R200 series. The R200 series is the fasted GPU available with open source drivers.
For you hard core Windows people this might not matter. But an R200 series card is an excellent choice for someone that might want to dabble in alternative operating systems and don't want to mess with binary drivers. Believe me, it's much nicer when things work out of the box and it just feels right.
I recently made the switch to the 9250 (I wanted to make sure I had up to date DVI support). It is great and I can see myself passing this card along to my next computer. There is nothing faster for linux when using the open source drivers.
The only console that had anywhere near 4 year cycle was the failed xbox one. They tried to rush out the next console since they were going nowhere with the original. Sony is releasing the ps3 earlier then their older longterm plans (I remember 3 years ago they were talking about a 2007 release) as a result but it's still being released at the 5-6 year mark.
This is probably part of the reason for the delay this year and lack of readyness by Sony. They are not only having huge technical issues to work out due to going for bleeding edge in every way possible but their releasing it earlier then they planned a few years ago.
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