Wednesday, June 2nd 2010
Galaxy Readies Dual-Fermi Graphics Card
Galaxy is finally breaking ground on graphics cards with two GF100 "Fermi" GPUs from NVIDIA, with the company displaying one such design sample at the ongoing Computex event. The dual-Fermi board uses essentially the same design NVIDIA has been using for generations of its dual-GPU cards, involving an internal SLI between two GPUs, which connect to the system bus via an nForce 200 bridge chip, and are Quad SLI capable.
The power conditioning and distribution on this design consists of two sets of 4+1 phase VRM, the card draws power from two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The GPUs carry the marking "GF100-030-A3", which indicates that it has the configuration of GeForce GTX 465, and since we count 8 memory chips per GPU system with no traces indicative of the other two memory chips per GPU sitting on their own memory channels, on the reverse side of the PCB, it is likely that the GPUs have a 256-bit wide memory interface. Galaxy, however, calls the card GTX 470 Dual. Output connectivity includes 3 DVI-D, with a small air-vent. It's likely that the cooler Galaxy designs will dissipate hot air around the graphics card, rather than out through the rear-panel.
Source:
HotHardware
The power conditioning and distribution on this design consists of two sets of 4+1 phase VRM, the card draws power from two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The GPUs carry the marking "GF100-030-A3", which indicates that it has the configuration of GeForce GTX 465, and since we count 8 memory chips per GPU system with no traces indicative of the other two memory chips per GPU sitting on their own memory channels, on the reverse side of the PCB, it is likely that the GPUs have a 256-bit wide memory interface. Galaxy, however, calls the card GTX 470 Dual. Output connectivity includes 3 DVI-D, with a small air-vent. It's likely that the cooler Galaxy designs will dissipate hot air around the graphics card, rather than out through the rear-panel.
105 Comments on Galaxy Readies Dual-Fermi Graphics Card
yea, its clear you made a bs statement with meaningless numbers to back it up. try again.
Nvidia Naming
GTX 295 = 2 x GTX 275
Mars GTX 295 = 2 x GTX 285
So it doesn't matter if it's called a Dual GTX 470, it does not mean it is 2 x GTX 470.
Similarly, a HD5970 = 2 x 'downclocked to 5850' 5870's.
and the new monsters at 4GB are HD5970 = 2 x 5870's (at stock)
GFX nomenclature is as reliable as a chocolate solar panel.
However, on the power front, the review at tweaktown for GTX 465 sli puts it at more draw than the HD 5970 and almost the same (40 watts out at load) as a 4GB HD5970 (higher at idle than one anyway). Point being 465 sli is a good indicator of the maximum potential of this card if it is 2 x GTX 465.
But i must stress Tweaktown's gaming choices are exceptionally pro Nvidia (res evil 5, Far Cry 2, Batman, Darkest days etc). I'd like to see Crysis and BFBC2 in there.
I wouldn't buy it but it'd be a blast to see! They'd have to sell it with a sticker on the box saying "F*ck the PCI power specs- this is INFERNO!!!" :rockout:
I'll make it easy for you:
My original comment:His responce:It was at that point that the conversation shifted from two GTX465s outperforming a single HD5970 to two GTX480s outperforming two HD5970s, which led to my post explaining that two GTX480s outperform two HD5970s. See, was that hard to follow?
Again, my original statement about the GTX465s was hardly BS, as it was obviously my opinion on the subject based on other experienece with SLi/Crossfire scaling(you can tell this by my use of the words "so" and "probably"), because there really hasn't been any good reviews that directly address the issue.
Sorry bro. But you just spoke BS up there. :shadedshu
Look at the charts.
Overall
2x HD5970 = 12% Better than single HD5970
2x GXT480 = 13% Better than single HD5970
@2560x1600
2x HD5970 = 19% Better than single HD5970
2x GTX480 = 18% Better than single HD5970
There is nothing more conclusive than that. It seems SLi between two GTX480s scales a whole hell of a lot better than two HD5970s.
I love it when someone posts charts from very respected reviews that prove their point, then another person comes in and say "Nope, I disagree, what you said is BS" and doesn't even bother to show at least a small amount of evidence to back them up...:rolleyes:
Nvidia prepares dual chip card
www.fudzilla.com/content/view/19052/1/
Two 460?! really? I had a hard time believing GTX 460 would even beat 5770 yesterday, but now it should beat 5850 (to beat 5970).
So what could have they done with GF104? Full 60TMUs like in GTX 480 or close to that? Then you'd get same shader performance but bigger fillrate.
No arguments though, GTX 4xx series scale very well.
You build a separate system for the GPU(s).
Now just to see how this stacks against 480SLI...
However, to not even show a little evidence about what you say really makes it seem like you are the one speaking BS, not me. And I would suggest that the next time you say what someone says is BS, especially when that person how shown proof from respectable reviews, you at least make a little effort to show why, otherwise it is just trolling. You have had two chances to show some proof to back your statements up, yet you haven't, so that is even worse trolling.
Now please don't come up with some lame excuse telling the figures or fake or that the site is BS. I checked 90% of the figures with the TPU review and is very similar.
Only when it comes to Tessellation does the GTX 480 overpower the HD 5970.
Guess your right as usual. :nutkick: