No GeForce 9800 GX2 at CeBIT 2008

malware · Feb 14, 2008

Some last minute news from the informer VR-Zone. According to this information, NVIDIA has canceled the GeForce 9800 GX2 introduction during CeBIT 2008. All NVIDIA partners are ordered not to show the new card during the German computer show. The official launch date is set for March 11th and partners will receive the reference cards about a week before this date, meaning that working samples will already be available during CeBIT, but none of them will show its power.

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xfire · Feb 14, 2008

They must have felt all of them together would heat up the whole area.
Jokes apart
Its only bad of Nvidia cause people waiting for it might just buy the x2 or htey might end up buying an 8800 Ultra. Could be they are waiting for the ultra's stock to clear up.

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

I think we can all say goodbye to the GX2. At least the g92 version anyways.

TooFast · Feb 14, 2008

Lol.............

phanbuey · Feb 14, 2008

this is very weird. why would they hide ? i bet it does have some issues.

TooFast · Feb 14, 2008

cause its a piece of crap!

Hawk1 · Feb 14, 2008

phanbuey said:
this is very weird. why would they hide ? i bet it does have some issues.

'course it could be another monster they want to keep close to their vests until release (like G80's), but we'll see.

btarunr · Feb 14, 2008

TooFast said:
cause its a piece of crap!

how can you say so?

Something like that happens and everyone's with tin-hats on. Was the 9800 GTX there?

acperience7 · Feb 14, 2008

erocker said:
I think we can all say goodbye to the GX2. At least the g92 version anyways.

I don't know, I mean wasn't this supposed to the successor of the Ultra? If they do back down on the G92 version what will they do for a new G92 Ultra?

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

Possible and prabable reasons:

1. The card isn't fast enough since Nvidia isn't so good with making SLi drivers much less SLi on one card. Plus Nvidia is still stuck with GDDR3 wich doesn't lend any improvement.

2. Heat! I mean come on! We all know how hot g92 chips run, and to sandwich two in one package should really be a burner!

3. I'm sure power consumption is crazy as well. Nvidia really needs a 55 or 45nm chip.

Hawk1 · Feb 14, 2008

acperience7 said:
I don't know, I mean wasn't this supposed to the successor of the Ultra? If they do back down on the G92 version what will they do for a new G92 Ultra?

9800GTX(Ultra?) - par or better performance(likely) of the Ultra, cooler and quieter(maybe) with less power consumption(we'll see).
They are pretty closed vest on their top ends right now, so no one REALLY knows. Shouldn't be too much longer 'till the leaks start coming out.

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 14, 2008

Its a piece of crap because the 7950gx2 was a piece of crap,a bodged 2 card as one effort that did'nt work then and wont work now.

There is no differant cooler you can put on it,so if it runs hot all you can do is have a fan blowing on it.As far as i'm concerned they can keep it.

btarunr · Feb 14, 2008

tigger69 said:
Its a piece of crap because the 7950gx2 was a piece of crap,a bodged 2 card as one effort that did'nt work then and wont work now.

There is no differant cooler you can put on it,so if it runs hot all you can do is have a fan blowing on it.As far as i'm concerned they can keep it.

how do you link the 7950GX2 to this? That was very much an interim before the GeForce 8 and this card will be one of the flagship GeForce 9 cards. Oh Applying that logic, the ATI Rage Fury Maxx (ATi's first attempt at dual GPU cards) was an utter fiasco, they did come up with an excellent HD3870 X2 in due course, didn't they?

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

I actually like the design the GX2, I just think Nvidia would be having a better time with it if the chips were smaller and cooler.

WhiteLotus · Feb 14, 2008

they must have a very large problem with it then - either that or they really cannot match that of ATi.

i smell something fishy about this news...

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

They should just pay AMD/ATi for some help with SLi. They need the money anyway.

btarunr · Feb 14, 2008

Or maybe it's just all the suspenseful marketing. Make people die to own it when it comes.

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

btarunr said:
Or maybe it's just all the suspenseful marketing. Make people die to own it when it comes.

I hope so. Nothing spurs progress better than a little competition. Nvidia would certainly have me fooled if this was the case.

btarunr · Feb 14, 2008

Something tells me, the 8800 Ultra stocks are indeed going dry but not so with the 8800 GTX. I won't be surprised with a price-cut, enough to make people rush in to buy three units each for you know what.

WhiteLotus · Feb 14, 2008

But then if this was the case then the GX2 better kick some GTX ass in to the dust!

Scrizz · Feb 14, 2008

meh... we'll just have to wait.

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 14, 2008

so why consider this a 9xxx series when its just two 8xxx chips configured as two cards in sli? surely a 9xxx card would be a 9xxx core,same as a 8xxx card has a 8xxx core.

Assimilator · Feb 14, 2008

tigger69 said:
Its a piece of crap because the 7950gx2 was a piece of crap,a bodged 2 card as one effort that did'nt work then and wont work now.

There is no differant cooler you can put on it,so if it runs hot all you can do is have a fan blowing on it.As far as i'm concerned they can keep it.

The 7950 GX2 was a piece of crap? Tell that to the guy who got over 14,000 in 3DMark06 with said video card (check the ORB). Can any Radeon X1900 series card match that? Not bloody likely.

I'm guessing nVidia is just trying to clear as much "old" 8800 series stock as possible before they release this monster and kill off the 8800 GTX and Ultra for good.

erocker · Feb 14, 2008

Assimilator said:
The 7950 GX2 was a piece of crap? Tell that to the guy who got over 14,000 in 3DMark06 with said video card (check the ORB). Can any Radeon X1900 series card match that? Not bloody likely.

I'm guessing nVidia is just trying to clear as much "old" 8800 series stock as possible before they release this monster and kill off the 8800 GTX and Ultra for good.

That's a nice score, but I thinkwhat he meant by crap was the poor design and poor driver support for the card.

HaZe303 · Feb 14, 2008

tigger69 said:
so why consider this a 9xxx series when its just two 8xxx chips configured as two cards in sli? surely a 9xxx card would be a 9xxx core,same as a 8xxx card has a 8xxx core.

Yeah I dont like the naming of the cards either. It should be called 8900GX2 and nothing else. Its not a generation 9 chip, so why call it that. Well of course, if ATI can call a 2x00 card for 3x00, Nvidia must think its free to call its cards whatever they want??? As I said, I dont like it.

OT: I think the performance isnt up to par, or drivers or heat issues. I dont think this is a PR trick.

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