Tuesday, October 26th 2010
Zotac Designs GeForce GTX 460 X2 Graphics Card
Zotac is another NVIDIA partner who isn't pleased that the GeForce GTX 480 isn't holding performance leadership, but has the engineering potential to outdo it. Earlier in June, Galaxy showed off a dual Fermi graphics card that makes use of two GF100 graphics processors in the GeForce GTX 465 configuration. Zotac waited for a more mature implementation of the Fermi architecture, found out that the GF104-based GeForce GTX 460 isn't lacking much in performance compared to the GTX 465, with vastly better thermal specifications, and went on to design its latest high-end card, which it now refers to as the Zotac GeForce GTX 460 X2. The card makes use of two GeForce GTX 460 1 GB GPUs in an internal SLI, much like every other dual-GPU NVIDIA card.
The card uses an NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chip to semaphore and broadcast data between the two GPUs, a dual 3+1+1 phase VRM that draws power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors, and display connectivity is relayed to the rear-panel from both the GPUs, that's four dual-link DVI, and one mini-HDMI. What this also means is that with just this one card, you can use the 3D Vision Surround feature, while retaining SLI multi-GPU scaling. If that's not all, there's a SLI connector, which lets you pair this with another card of its kind, for GTX 460 Quad-SLI. Zotac is yet to finalize a cooling solution to suit it best. GF104 could be NVIDIA's easiest route to a dual-GPU graphics card that establishes performance leadership. The GF104 physically has 384 CUDA cores (336 on Zotac's card, since it's in the GTX 460 configuration), and has shown to be capable of high GPU/Shader clock speeds. More details about Zotac's card are awaited.
Source:
Expreview
The card uses an NVIDIA nForce 200 bridge chip to semaphore and broadcast data between the two GPUs, a dual 3+1+1 phase VRM that draws power from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors, and display connectivity is relayed to the rear-panel from both the GPUs, that's four dual-link DVI, and one mini-HDMI. What this also means is that with just this one card, you can use the 3D Vision Surround feature, while retaining SLI multi-GPU scaling. If that's not all, there's a SLI connector, which lets you pair this with another card of its kind, for GTX 460 Quad-SLI. Zotac is yet to finalize a cooling solution to suit it best. GF104 could be NVIDIA's easiest route to a dual-GPU graphics card that establishes performance leadership. The GF104 physically has 384 CUDA cores (336 on Zotac's card, since it's in the GTX 460 configuration), and has shown to be capable of high GPU/Shader clock speeds. More details about Zotac's card are awaited.
61 Comments on Zotac Designs GeForce GTX 460 X2 Graphics Card
His sentiment does not stand. He addresses it as a "colorful translation", not as an "it's not a well-known English word" issue.
EDIT: Nvm, I read it. I'm losing my damn mind today. lol.
I considered that perhaps the term was common in India. I'm sure Indian English has many nuances, just like American English and British English are quite different.
It so happens that I do not have a tech-related career or a wealth of experience with componentry, so I wasn't too surprised to be told that the use of that term is common within its specialty field. I can easily imagine it's simply an area of language I have not encountered before.
Whether this is true or not may be up for debate. What is clear is that the use of the term "semaphore" as a verb related to circuitry - whether or not you know the meaning of the word in other contexts as a noun - is extremely uncommon to most people, even most of those who have a keen interest in computers. This was my original point and I believe it still stands.Quite right. I meant absolutely no offense or criticism.
That was before I realised Expreview has an English version. Which of course you must have used. My bad.
Certainly being raised bilingually you would not have to make a "concsious" translation.Yes, of course it is. But there must be a few words which are more common or less common in India. This clearly isn't one of them.
How about 4? :p
Or a SR-2 w/ 7 :roll: :rockout: